March’s theme / technique: Being Creative with texture
The six visual keys to a great photograph are:
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- 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.
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- 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 🙂
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- 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.
TRAVEL WORDS 
Lovely random patterns of the shells and limpets, good examples. Here are mine… https://retiredfromgypsylife.wordpress.com/2020/03/09/20-20-photo-challenge-march-texture-2/
It’s beginning to dawn on me how often patterns play a part in my compositions!
Oops Jude sent link via my desktop, forgot it doesn’t know me, may be in trash….
A great selection. My favourites are the second one (the textures and the colours) and the last one (such an interesting background with the dahlias and the path). But the one I feel the textures in most when I look at it is the steps with the gravel – how it would feel to step and how the gravel would slide.
I particularly like the first two. Great textures, but good memories of seaside days too. Here’s my attempt: https://margaret21.wordpress.com/2020/03/10/roughly-the-same-walk-as-last-week/