Jerod Foster Photography

Field Lighting #3: Alison Church on location.

Some time ago, I wrote about photographing with big light sources, such as large soft boxes. One nice thing about soft boxes is that they provide a large, soft light source that’s not stark and brutally intense like a bare-bulb speedlight or strobe. Before recently (ah, within the past several years, since the popularity of [...]

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February, 2010, Calendar Desktop Wallpaper

Well, better late than never. It’s been a busy couple past weeks, and I’m settling in to February…finally. The February 2010 desktop wallpaper calendar is set, and all you have to do is click on the image above to see the large version. Right-click the image, and save it to your desktop!
Monsoon season hits the [...]

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Getting Dirty on the Job: A note about photographers’ passion

You can’t get this shot…

Without first putting yourself here!
There are a lot of photographers in the market these days. Let me clarify: there are a lot of great photographers in the market these days, and the numbers keep growing! Many of us are at varying levels of technique and/or time behind the lens, and many [...]

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Field Lighting #2 – Paul Heinrich, Sysco Senior Director

This is the type of shoot I like to be a part of! I photographed a book last year that allowed me to meet several prominent individuals in the food industry, and Paul Heinrich was one of them. This shoot came together fairly quickly, having only a week to book a flight to Houston (not [...]

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West Texas Snow and “Highway Star”

Winter has been especially varietal in West Texas this year. I believe anyone from Big Bend to Amarillo would agree with me. We’ve had extremely cold days (for this region), snow, ice, sunshine, days that felt like the middle of Spring, more ice, more snow, thunderstorms, etc, etc… The day before Christmas, 2009, was no [...]

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Painting Buildings…with light!

I could be writing today about a certain announcement that a certain computer manufacturing company made yesterday about a certain device that will relatively change your life. But I’m not. Actually, there are so many blogs and news articles out there about Apple’s new iPad, that it would be pointless to the “I-wish-it-had-this-and-that” discussion that [...]