TEXTURE
Texture is that quality that makes an image seem like it could be experienced through touch, or taste, or sound, or smell.
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Texture exists in the surface details of your subject. It is that quality that makes an otherwise two-dimensional object seem like it could be experienced through senses other than sight…can feel smooth, or rough, or cold, or hot, or damp, or slick, or soft, or sharp, or grainy…can sense the smell of a flower or the salt air…can taste the flavor of food…can hear the sound of the breeze or the roar of a lion, etc…
No foundation of photographic art is more capable of moving your deep emotions than texture. This makes your audience more connected to your image The challenge of seeing and capturing texture with a camera is mostly based on one quality: the available light. Texture can be accentuated by the side light of early sunny mornings or early evenings with heavy shadows
Texture can be accented also by 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 small shadows along those surfaces. While the impact is subtle, it adds more depth, interest, and reality to the shots.
Texture also shines extra on surfaces that are wet: wet wood, leaves, metal, rocks, skin…Texture as a background can create an exciting and emotion-filled composition. And with the correct use of texture, pictures can become more alive and almost three dimensional.
Smell and Touch: This image shows texture by giving you the feeling of "touch" with the rough concrete surface of this pier mixed with the feeling of "touch" of the wet ocean water and "smell" of the salt in the air.
Sound and Touch: This image shows texture by giving you the feeling of "touch" with the jagged cool rocks mixed with the feeling of "hearing" the powerful rush of water and the load roar of this waterfall.
Touch: This image shows texture by giving you the feeling of "touch" with all the different types in this image: the grass in the foreground, the dog's fur in the middle-ground, and wood making up the building in the background
Sound and Touch: You can hear the gentle sound of the water flowing over the moss and rocks, plus touch the dampness in the air and gentle pressure of falling water and the wet feel of the cascade along with the damp green moss and slippery rocks
Sound and Touch: You can hear the silence and peace of the milky way...and touch the smooth coolness of the stone slab architecture
Sound and Touch: You can hear the silence and peace of the milky way...and touch the sharpness of the carved stauess
Smell, Sound, and Touch: You can smell the flowers, hear the breeze through the flowers and the puppy panting (or barking) and feel the touch of the flowers, the doggie's fur, and the soft grass in the foreground
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Taste and Touch: You can taste the flavor of grapes, and can feel that smooth and juicy texture with your tongue, as well touch the leaves and grape vines and feel their roughness
Taste: You can taste the flavor of this medium rare steak, along with the grains of salt sprinkled on it...plus feel the texture of the steak as you cut it with a knife and feel its texture and juiciness as you chew it in your mouth
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