2020 Photo Challenge #12

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 - Try to mix your texture with other colours and patterns

Fresh cream meringues in a St Ives bakery

Above we have the crisp texture of the meringue, the soft texture of the whipped cream and the colourful sprinkles and bun cases working together to form a pattern.

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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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.

48 thoughts on “2020 Photo Challenge #12”

  1. Ooh, you are naughty! Stealing my thunder 🙂 🙂 Perhaps you could take those cakes along to Su? She does a magnificent teatime spread. Happy Sunday barely seems appropriate, Jude, but we can still smile.

    1. I love cream meringues, but I was very good and only looked at these! A bit of a bummer, the NT have closed all their places because they thought too many people would visit today (Mothers day) due to the mild weather 😕 looks like a stroll up the hill instead.

      1. Lucky to have that hill. Saw the crowds at the seaside yesterday. Madness! I’m in splendid isolation on the roof with granola and Greek yogurt. 😊💕

  3. This works really well for your challenge Jude.Meringues were my grandmother’s favourite sweet treat, and although I’m not a fan. Shelf, seeing them always brings bCk very fond memories. Not sure she’d approve of the Union Jack cases though — my lot are all Nationalists.

    1. It was my mother who introduced me to them. Though I haven’t had one in years, meringues are too sweet for me now. I am fond of fresh cream though 😍

  5. I’m really keen to do this one as I love texture. My school is closing tomorrow and I’ll be unemployed so I reckon I’ll have time to give this a crack.

    I nearly got totally distracted from the point of the exercise by those meringues.

  6. That’s a great photo for the challenge, but I’m not remotely tempted to eat one. Your challenges get harder by the week! Help!

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