Texture

1.The way a surface, substance or piece of cloth feels when you touch it, for example how rough, smooth, hard or soft it is.


2. Shooting textures takes the challenge one step further: conveying to the viewer not only how something looks, but also how it feels to the touch. A great texture shot reaches out and grabs you.


3.Bricks often have the added bonus of creating patterns and symmetrical shapes.

4.Tree bark because it may be glossily smooth or dry, peeling and rough. Leaves can be veined, spiky, succulent. 

5.A shiny new coat of paint on a windowsill, an old peeling fence or a thickly layered oil painting all invite the lens forward to reproduce their touchable qualities.

6.old, hard, smooth, chipped: stone lends itself well to the study of texture, both in nature and in more urban settings. A pebbly beach may not seem as tempting a prospect as its sandy counterpart, but the range of shapes and sizes of the stones underfoot can’t help but fascinate the interested observer.

7.Every stage from forest to finished product presents a new opportunity: twisted roots, roughly chopped fire piles, shavings and splinters in the carpenter’s yard, smoothly sanded new grain, visible gnarls and knots, a slickly varnished chair leg – there’s never an uninspired photographer around wood.

8.Cotton; polyester, leather .

9.Rough and fraying or smoothly waxed, the many different sizes of rope offer the photographer the chance to move in close and grab that macro texture shot and inside of the  auditorium. 

10.Smooth, cool and reflective, rusty, tarnished and dull, metal easily gives up its age and provides the photographer with another great texture to work on.