Posts Tagged Students

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]