Big Bend Twilight
It’s been a busy week, full of shooting, writing, designing, and some great discussions with other photographers, near and afar! I was going through some old images tonight looking for some submit-worthy photographs to go with an assignment, and I came across this image from the Big Bend Ranch State Park near Lajitas, Texas. I [...]
Field Lighting #13: The LIGHT, the LIGHT, the LIGHT!
OK, so at the risk of wearing you thin on the subject in the photographs, I’m going to chronologically detail an evening shoot that serves as the epitome of unique natural light conditions where I live (yes, I wrote the EPITOME, I think it’s the Johnny Winter I’m listening to right now that’s riled me [...]
Happy 4th of July! New Calendar Desktop.
Happy Independence Day for all of those living within the United States, and happy any other day elsewise! Like many other photographers this month, I’m releasing a few holiday-inspired desktop calendars. Both come in large and small, which you can find below: Have a great one, and be safe! Download the files at will, and [...]
Travel Tip for the Road Warrior: Enjoy the Outdoors
Photographers that spend a good amount of their time on the road will see the significance in this post, particularly those photographers who see themselves periodically popping in the travel photography sector of the industry. When I travel to a shoot, I tend to stake out the towns/areas/ecosystems I’ll be driving through for potential photo [...]
Photo of the Day – Fiery Rainbow
I can’t emphasize enough paying attention to light! It is, after all, what we photographers work with. I drove in from a 1,000+ mile trip full of photoshoots this past weekend, and ended up coming home to a massive thunderstorm. So, I stopped off at the house to drop a few things off, and then [...]
Field Lighting #11: Use Backlight
Here’s one for the folks that appreciate a small dose of plant photography! Photographers often make little to do about photographing the smaller aspects in light of discussing the larger landscapes, and most of the time (online) you usually see, “photograph flowers in the shade or after a rainstorm,” like I did with my last [...]
Photo of the Day: Thistle Time
I thought I would share this colorful thistle while I work on a new Field Lighting post. Thistles are a mix of beauty and danger combined in the same plant, and when they are in full bloom, they take center stage with their vibrancy. If you can find a calm, overcast morning to throw on [...]
Field Lighting #10: Horsin’ Around with Engagements
It’s been a while since I’ve put up a Field Lighting post, and Junction kept me from posting anything too extensive, so I have a little catching up to do. In regards to the last Field Lighting post, nick b pretty much nailed it beyond naming the exact light source behind the model to camera [...]
June Desktop Wallpaper – Sabinal Blues
The June desktop calendar is now available! Just right click the image above and save it do your designated folder! This shot was actually taken from a location that one of my students came upon during a shoot on one of the most beautiful stretches of the Sabinal River in Utopia, Texas! Several of us [...]
Throwing Hay (a photo essay) and testing new tools
Throwing Hay, by Jerod Foster from Jerod Foster on Vimeo. I spent some much-needed family time back home over Memorial Day weekend. It was a relaxing intersession between the Junction workshops and getting back to Lubbock, and I found time to shoot a little essay on a facet of ranch work that you might not [...]
Junction A-Team: Don’t mess with these photogs…
The Junction courses are about to wrap up, and although there are many photos and stories to share, getting to sleep four hours every night is catching up on us! So, I’ll just share a shot of my class, the A-Team! I ended up with four in the videography course, and they are working their [...]
Living in the Macro World
Our first and second day at Junction saw us shooting quite a bit of flower work. The rain has come pretty regularly, and we take advantage of the overcast skies by shooting on a macro level. I’m engrossed in high-speed sync flash work again, and I’m finding a few inhabitants along the way. Macro work [...]
Back at Junction: 15 Days of Visual Immersion
Early mornings and late nights, little sleep, and awesome light! Wyman Meinzer and I are back in Junction, and over the next 15 days, I’ll try to keep the site posted with little asides from our adventures with 15 college students, all of them here to dive deep in visual creativity! It’s an extremely productive [...]
East Coast Bound
Amanda and I are headed to Charleston, South Carolina for one of my best friend’s wedding this weekend, and on our way to Dallas (driving to Dallas to fly out makes more sense sometimes than from Lubbock, I know…), we ran through a building thunderstorm. The images aren’t anything to write home about, but living [...]
Field Lighting #8: High-speed lighting…flowers!
Yes, flowers. I’ve been holding this one nearly a year, and it’s the right time to talk about photographing flowers in Texas! The rain has been coming steady throughout West Texas and the Hill Country, and from what I’ve heard on the phone and via the Web, the Spring flowers are coming on in full [...]
Field Lighting #7: Whatever happened to naturally occurring, directionally diffused light?
When I posted last about James Watkins’s hands, it struck me that most of the posts regarding lighting and photoshoots (in my world at least) revolve around using some sort of artificial lighting technology. I love using lights, and if you’ve read this blog enough, you’ll know that I’m a diligent user of several gonzo-sized [...]
Mr. Watkins’s Hands
I probably have this in a previous post (no doubt a failure of my memory), but I just wanted to post one of my favorite shots taken over the past few years. These are artist James Watkins’s hands. I have an upcoming Field Lighting post generated around this shot and a few portraits of this [...]
Free Desktop Calendar for April – Spring-time!
I’m a little early with this one (just to make up for how late I have been with the past three). Just click on the shot, and download it to your desktop for your day-keeping pleasure! It’s been a treat walking to the Texas Tech office during the mornings and seeing all the Bradford Pears [...]
Photo of the Day – Sabinal River Light
I was just down in the Hill Country for a show with the Hogg Maulies, and it was refreshing to see some of the rivers coming back to level! Here’s a take from the Sabinal River running through a beautiful ranch in Utopia, Texas. This has been the site of a lot of great photography!
I’m teaching a video course in Junction, Texas.
That’s right, an HD video/documentary course, in Junction, Texas, Texas Tech University satellite campus, May 12 – May 27. If you are frequent readers, you know I’m a photography instructor (of sorts) at Texas Tech University, and for five years now, I have been teaching a field photography course with Wyman Meinzer at the Junction, [...]
Free Desktop Calendar for March
Late as always! I’ve actually been pretty absent from the blog and my Twitter account here of late to finish up a few assignments. I’ll have another Field Lighting, if not two, up this week to make up for last week. In the meantime, I have uploaded the free March desktop calendar for your downloading [...]
Photo of the Day – The Little Things Matter
I mentioned in a post last week, that when hiking, you shouldn’t pass up the little things that often get passed by on your way to “the shot.” I’m not sure what it was about this group of leaves that stuck out to me, probably the blue sky reflection in the water and the multiple [...]
Photo of the Day – Bluestem Blues!
During high school, I was part of the plant identification team, and I became fond of bluestem grass. As funny as this sounds, bluestem always seemed like a graceful organism to me, much like the gracefulness of a willow tree. It flows along with the wind in such a way that it seems like a [...]
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 [...]
