texture

We were asked to illustrate texture within a photograph, to find things in our surrounding environment. I decided to firstly look around my home for a number of differing items and differing definitions of the word texure.

I picked these shells because of their interesting form and surface. I used a mixture of natural and a small amount of artificial light to help pick out the texture on their surface and contrast it smooth finish of the surface they are laid on.

Noticing that smooth is also a texture, I wanted to try to show this in an interesting way. I chose two pieces of the same silk like material and scrunched them to give peaks and troughs. Using the same lighting as before, this gave contrasting areas of light and shade. The bold colours also give a texture

I then became slightly abstract in my thinking and considered that certain words give an image of texture in the mind. Word such as rough, smooth, sharp are words that can almost be felt. I wanted to try to illustrate this in a photograph and after a quick search around, I found some old drawing pins

The word pin is associated with the word sharp as well as the sharp end of the pin contrasting with the smooth background.

Venturing away from the more controlled environment of inside, I looked around my garden to find other examples of texture. May aim with this part of the task was to produce shots which show a different view of the obvious. This led me to look at the most boring elements in my garden, the house brick and the garden fence.

These shots are naturally lit with no flash. They have however been adjusted using photoshop elements to emphasise the texture on their surfaces and in the materials from which they are constructed