Texture Photography

Texture Photography

This part of my course was the hardest for me, this is because i found it hard to make the textures interesting to the eye. To try and make them more appealing i used strange camera angles and tried to use the rule of thirds creatively in my photos, as well as i think i also had a try useing different types of flash to try and get the desired effect.

My first photo i have taken is of a wooden table, for this shot i switched off all the lights and used only the light from my flash to illuminate the table. My flash was set so that it would fire straight up to the roof but i then put in a bounce card so that i could angle the flash to the table. By doing this it made the centre more brighter while its slowly fading off to the side into darkness. To help with this i also used a low aperture to create a nice depth of field. Round the edges of this i added a slight vignette to again make it look nicer to the eye. This photo in the dark areas may look slightly noisy this is because i had to bump up the ISO to 400 to be able to achieve a good amount of light.

My second image i have taken is of carpet, this is slightly different to the first in that i have allowed more light to go further on, this was done in a similar way but this time the flash was bounced to the wall behind me on the right. For this i also made my camera go on a slight angle, this made the frame more exciting and is a unusual angle. This shot again used the aperture right down, this was again to create a interesting depth of field were only a small part of the frame was in focus.

My last photo i decided to do was of bricks, with this i had the idea of as the longer the brick go on the more it is out of focus. To do this again i set the aperture low but this time i stood quite a bit back from the wall. This photo was again lit with the flash but this time i was pointing exactly at the wall but with the power turned down to 1/8.