Have you ever looked at a photo in a cook book or magazine and commented that the food looks so good you could probably practically taste it?

 

Or you looked at a picture under the stars and could hear the silence?

 

Or looked at a picture of a harbor at Sunrise and you could smell the salt in the misty morning Breeze?

 

Or looked into a picture and you could feel the soft cool sand shifting under your feet, or feel the delicate edges of the flower petals on your fingertips, or the jagged shards of a broken window, or the warmth heat from the glowing sunbeams.

 

what really connects you into the essence of the photograph is texture when a photo makes a person want to touch it, you have your audience hooked. Images using texture effectively speaks not only to the eyes, but to as many of the other senses as they possibly can. this way, they  speak to the heart and are powerful and captivating .

 

Texture is defined as the surface details of anything   in a picture. it is that quality that makes an image seem like it could be experienced through touch, or taste, or sound, or smell.

 

Texture brings up memories your audience has two similar situations and scenes they have experience so they can interact on a more personal level with and image.

 

textures exist in the surface details of your subject. It is the quality that makes and otherwise two dimensional objects seem like it could be experienced through senses other than sight, it's can feel smooth, or rough, or cold, or hot, or damp, or  slick, or soft, or sharp, or grainy, you can sense the smell of a flower or the Salt Air. you can taste the flavor of food, you can hear the sounds of the breeze or the Roar of a lion or noises of a city or Silence of the Stars, Etc.

 

no Foundation of Photography Arts is more capable of moving your emotions then texture. This makes your audience relate to and be more connected to your image.

 

the challenge of seeing and capturing textures with a camera is mostly based on the ones quality the available light.

 

texture can be accentuated by the side  light of early Sunday mornings or early evenings with heavy Long Shadows

 

texture can be accented also buy overhead light when the sun is vertical and high in the sky to create smoother brighter surfaces. With the sun high in the sky, the roughness of the walls of buildings, or the wood textures of tree trunks, or any kind of texture along vertical surfaces is emphasized as the overhead light casts a shadow.

 

While the impact is   subtle , it adds more depth, interest, and reality to the shots.

 

Textures also shine extra on surfaces that are wet: wet wood, leaves, metal, rocks, skin.

 

 light color are Creed's feeling of warmth or cold red/ orange equal warm, blue green equal cool.

 

texture as a background can create an exciting and emotion-filled composition. Texture in the foreground can help create nice leading lines into an image. And with the correct use of texture in the subject, Texas can become more alive and almost three dimensional, allowing the audience emotional connections with the memories of feeling.

 

Leading lines getting into a picture, textured keeps you they're experiencing the picture... So, when you take an image, ask yourself these questions if you were inside your picture:

 

what would you smell?

What would you here?

What made you taste?

What could you touch?

 

technique tip for texture:

 

try to focus on the sense of touch in your images have your images let people imagine what  would feel like to be touching and sensing the things in your composition.