Eight Hiking Tips For Photographers
Photographers are often outdoor enthusiasts, and there are a slew of shooters out there that have made successful livings out of their passion for the outdoors and what exists in the natural world. Fortunately, I have been lucky enough to work in this area over the past several years, and I’m never more excited to [...]
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 [...]
Big Light is Good Light!
Like a lot of photographers out there, I’m addicted to big light! For most of the portrait work I do, the sun is just not big enough, relatively speaking. I like explaining this to students. The sun is a huge star, not the largest in the solar system, but no lightweight either. However, since it [...]
Five assets each photography student needs!
This post should really be titled “Jerod Foster’s opinionated list of what photography students need, besides a camera and MacBook Pro.” At the risk of being too forward, this is a small compilation of what I believe takes a photography student from someone that is just simply attending class to becoming an individual storyteller. I [...]
New Lights, Familiar Face…
It’s always good to have a brother that has gold, curly hair, like any surfer would want to have as he runs down a beach with board in hand… Anyways, Seth was subject to a quick test run for the new Elinchrom Ranger Quadra’s I procured yesterday. These little (and I mean little) lights can [...]
Waresville Cemetery
It’s not like me to take photographs of a cemetery (maybe it’s just getting close to Halloween, no offense). I feel that cemeteries are shot quite enough (mostly in black in white for that matter), however, when a particular cemetery is old enough to sport some pretty interesting heritage, it’s always worth looking in to!
One [...]
Free Desktop Wallpaper – Toolshed
For all of you that feel that staring at your computer feels like you are staring at a wall of tools, and you don’t know what you need to fix the problem, here you go! This is my first free desktop wallpaper, and all you have to do is drag the image on to your [...]
Do something with FOG!
I was poking around on David duChemin’s blog, The PixelatedImage, and ran up on his post about the weather outside. This reminded me of our most recent weekend in Lubbock when tons of fog set in for a few days (quite unique in West Texas). For you photogs, this is not a time to set [...]
A Little Texas Tech Shine!
I have become a jewelry photographer here of late. From previous posts, you’d probably think I don’t photograph too much product work, however, this work is just as enjoyable, and honestly, when you have this much control over your subject, you tend to be fairly creative compared to some shoots with people…some.
I recently photographed senior [...]
5 PhotoBLOGS I Can’t Not Read!
Excuse the grammar above…
I have stayed pretty busy here lately with several projects, but no matter how busy it gets, I do my best to find time (found usually early in the mornings when I wake up) to do a little reading on the blogosphere for information pertaining to, challenging, encouraging, and/or making fun of [...]
Visit Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas Magazine
How many national parks does Texas have? Four, not counting the other ten monuments, preserves, historical sites, etc. One of my particular favorite national parks in the state is the Guadalupe Mountains National Park near Dell City, Texas. It’s actually right on the New Mexico/Texas border, in between Carlsbad and El Paso. This park has [...]
5 Reasons For Photographers To Take Self-Portraits
We photographers spend a great deal of time creating images of other people, and for good reason! That’s our job, or at least for those that take portraits. While we enjoy this aspect of our job, do you ever think that making portraits of yourself is sometimes just as important? Think about it for a [...]
Hogg Maulies…a quick, random photoshoot.
Several folks on Twitter have messaged me wanting to see how the Hogg Maulies photos turned out. The Hogg Maulies is the band that I play around Texas in, and we decided the other day to take a few quick photos for a promotional poster for a few upcoming shows. I love doing quick shoots [...]
Camera in hand, not enough room!
Here’s a thought that is stressed throughout the industry by leading professionals and educators: always have your camera handy! Now, I’m not going to tell you that every successful photog out there always has their camera with them, no matter what, but I will tell you that they have theirs around more often than not. [...]
15 days, 11 new friends, thousands of new memories…
I’m starting to think that those folks that blog everyday either a) have a lot of time on their hands, b) are making direct advertising monies (yes, monies) from their blog hits (just check out Strobist, great blog), c) are always at a computer, or d) love what they do, and see the benefit in [...]
Home Away From Home – Wyman and Jerod’s Bogus Adventure: Junction
Alright! Wyman and I are back at Texas Tech University in Junction, our OTHER place, ha! Each year, Wyman and I come to Junction to lead a 15-day photography workshop that counts as class credit with the university, and each year, we get a totally new batch of eager students who get to see some [...]
Feed Your Spirit Pizza – In Your Face Pizza Hut
Wow! I don’t know even where to begin, it’s been so long…if there’s anyone still out there reading this blog, no, I have not quit, died, been abducted by the aliens mentioned in an earlier post that found me on Twitter then picked me up out of the sandhills of West Texas where I have [...]
Meet Mike Greer: 70-year-old Extraordinaire!
It’s been a doooooozy of a past couple of weeks, but I can’t complain from any kind of standpoint. Being busy is good. I often read Joe McNally’s blog, as well as Chase Jarvis’s blog, about how busy one can really be in this industry!
Talk about a guy that has been busy, especially for the majority of [...]
Tiny Santas Everywhere!
For those of you that are always in the Christmas mood, here’s a post for you!
Last fall, Mark Hartsfield, owner of Hartsfield Design, a firm that I do quite a bit of work with, contacted me about photographing some product and catalog shots for The Lynn Haney Collection, one of the most recognized collections of [...]
This is my stand-in model, err…my brother, Seth!
Thank God for brothers! What would we do without them? I used to call only-children “lonely children” (no offense to all you only-children out there), mainly because I would have went bonkers without my sister and brother. And even though we’re all “grown-up,” my sister as an accountant, and my brother as a college student, [...]
Aliens And My Grandfather (would be a cool name for a band!)
Here’s a quick look at what I’m doing when I travel to a shoot.
This is me all hunky dory (maybe not hunky, but you know what I mean):
This is me when I see something up ahead on the horizon that looks like it may delay me, non-photographically, from my destination (I hate being late to [...]
I was in the presence of historical awesomeness!!!
Here’s something to think about that Joe McKay and I talked about today. Mr. McKay is an architect in Lubbock, and I was assigned to photograph him because he owns something very special. And when I say special, I mean drop-your-mouth-in-awe special. The book you see laying in its box in front of Mr. McKay [...]
Is this weather weird or what?
You never know what you are going to get in Texas! There is a saying that involves the weatherman being wrong and waiting until the weather changes, but I can’t quote it verbatim. However, I will attest to the uniqueness of Texas weather. It’s the middle of January in Lubbock, and it’s 70 degrees Fahrenheit [...]
Ideas that linger…
It’s back to school for many folks, teachers too, and it looks like it’s shaping up to be an involved and productive year! This is always an exciting part of the year, and I hope all of you keep all the goals (the word I use to mask ‘resolution’) you have set for yourselves for [...]
