Texture

Texture

Tips

• Regardless of the type of texture photography you're shooting, one thing is essential: good light.
• The ideal light for any photo is light that is available during the "golden hour," the hour before sunset. It's golden and gorgeous and creates dark shadows.
• However, hard light and soft light will work just fine.
• What you're looking to do is to create shadows to bring out texture. You can create shadows by adjusting your position until you see shadows that create texture.
• Remember to shoot from a variety of distances. This will create a more interesting portfolio.

Informing

• Using texture to inform the viewer about a subject is the last type of texture photography.
• In this type, you have to decide beforehand what information you're trying to convey in the photo. Then you compose the image in such a way that the texture helps to inform about the subject.

Adding drama

• In this type of texture photography, texture plays a secondary role in the photo to boost a dramatic effect.
• This type usually incorporates color or contrast as the main focus of the photo, and the texture serves to make the photo more interesting.

Showing detail

• When using texture to show detail, you'll use the texture as the main feature of your photo.
• In essence, you want the viewer to focus on the texture and nothing else.
• These detail shots will usually be close-ups.

Defined

• Using texture in photography is a very effective way to show detail, to add drama or to inform about a subject.
• It's one of my favorite types of photography, because it's surprisingly easy to do and it creates very interesting photographs.