2020 Photo Challenge #10

March’s theme / technique: Being Creative with texture

The six visual keys to a great photograph are:

    • Patterns
    • Texture
    • Lines
    • Light
    • Depth of field
    • Space

This month we are going to look at textures. While the structure of an object is its form, the material from which it is made constitutes its texture. Is it hard or soft, smooth or rough?  You are aiming at translating texture visually, bringing life and energy to a photo through shape, tone and colour. Study the texture and forget about the object. Texture becomes the subject here.

    • Try contrasting rough against smooth
    • Shoot at different times of the day. Does it change the effect?
    • Capture details – like the fibres in a rope or a carpet.
    • Try altering the angle of light to avoid flat and dull images. You might be able to do this with your editing software too.
    • Use different angles to discover how much texture appears.
This week's assignment - Find something rough and get in close. Try contrasting a rough texture against a smooth texture

Barnacles and Limpets shells on rocks on the beach.

I have deliberately not gone in too close for the photograph above as I wanted to show the context of these organisms as they coexist on the seashore as well as the almost smooth surface of the rock to which they are attached. In contrast the image below focuses on the rough textures.

And below we have rough and smooth textures alongside each other. Rough stones and wood with smooth cobbles and leaves.

Following on from my Zimbabwean sculpture seen last week, here are a couple that perfectly demonstrate the textures of smooth and rough.

If you would like to join in with the 2020 photo challenge then please take a look at my 2020 Photo Challenge page. No complicated rules, just a camera required 🙂

    • Create your own post with some information about how you composed the shot.
    • Include a link to this page in your post so others can find it too
    • Add the tag #2020PhotoChallenge so everyone can find your entry easily in the WP Reader
    • Get your post(s) in by the end of the month, as the new theme comes out on the first Sunday in April.

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Heyjude

I have lived in the UK for most of my life, but when young I definitely had wanderlust and even ended up living in South Africa for several years which was a wonderful experience. I now look forward to a long and leisurely retirement doing what I like most - gardening, photography, walking and travelling.

42 thoughts on “2020 Photo Challenge #10”

  1. I’m having a highly textured breakfast, Jude, (granola and yogurt) but I can’t stop to take a photo. Off to join the choir soon for one last walk 🙂 🙂 Hope you get out in the garden today!

      1. And flights seem to be a little tricky at the minute, H, but you’d be very welcome to join me. Today was fabulous! 🙂 🙂

    2. Hope the walk was a success. I suppose as the temperatures climb it gets more difficult for walking. Except along the beach… 😎

      1. It will be, but today was perfect, Jude. It was 18/20C while we were walking (early start), then we had a lovely concert on the steps of a church and I was looking for shade. There was a Cheese and Bread festival going on (any excuse 🙂 ) so we followed the choir to a restaurant a short distance away. It’s Mother’s Day in Portugal today so it was busy but the food was good and the choir gave an impromptu performance after the meal. All this enjoying yourself is exhausting 🙂 🙂

  2. We’ve just been on a landscape excursion with my photography class and I’m loving exploring what I can do with my camera and looking for interesting things to photograph. I definitely plan to participate, Jude. Just have to get my head around it…. (PS Love the barnacles and limpets.)

  6. I agree with you about the first photograph, that keeping some distance worked well in providing context and presenting more of an overall arrangement.

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