There is very much to find out in taking photos. Not only do we require to control our camera but we must appreciate how lighting manifests as a photo. We need to recognize how light works in photography because we can apply this wisdom to photograph spectacular photographs. Stunning images refers to clarity, depth, colour and tone.
A most ideal way to turn out to be expert in photography is to start photographing different textures. Types of textures may include timber, steel, foliage and brick. These things can really accentuate strength and an interesting light very rapidly and without difficulty. We can learn a lot from shooting these surfaces of different things. Once we get the true lighting to draw attention to these textures our images suddenly pick up and come to life. You can check these textures a variety of ways. I suggest shooting these appealing different textures with well-balanced light spread evenly across your photo. If you can't get well-balanced lighting then shadows may work to an advantage.
A very good photo that has interesting textures are dried leaves across a wooden exterior. You can wait until the sunlight has reduced in the sky to get some shadow below the leaves. You will find that your shadow will become part your placement of subjects within the photo. What this means is that the shadows can work to your advantage.
A pastoral appearance and feel is a wonderful point to start. Taking photos of old timber fence posts with nails and old wires can certainly bring wood as a texture to life. You see what we want is make the wood and the nails look so they look authentic. In other words make it look powerful by increasing the depth of the photo. We would like the viewer to feel like they can reach out and feel the texture.
In order to create this reality in your photos you need to construct a small list of things to photograph. The fence line and rusty nails are a good starting point. You may also like to take photos of differences in textures such as metal and wood. A steel band wrapped over a wood fence can make for a wonderful picture. A distinction in textures such as this can be shot in an antique tone and monochrome for extra drama and interest. They can also be shot in a selection of other tones that you can invent yourself in Photoshop or Lightroom.
What is a tone? A tone relates to light and colour. Saturdated colour, deep tones mean that your image may have a lot of black and grey tone, shadowy yellow and dark orange to it. Light tones may mean that your photograph has lots of shades of pale shades. In rustic photography, where we want to photograph wonderful different textures, we often find that saturated tones are a factor.
Deep tones can accentuate the shadow. In order for your photographs to look like they have real live texture then we need to draw attention to the intensity and light range contained within your shot. You may decide on a deep or dark tone to give that nail more rust or that metallic band around the wood more brightness.
When we use more contrast in our rural photography we get a superior looking texture. This is since the contrast in the light brings up the detail of the surface of the textured subject. The lighting works to bring out the detail in the lighter parts and deepen the shadow in the dark areas.
A means to creating successful textured surfaces is to keep your composition uncomplicated. Genuine textures, such as foliage and wood, work most ideal when there is nothing to clutter the shot. Simply capture the main subject and make sure there are no distracting things in the backdrop or the forefront. Once you've done this you can work to raise the contrast, perfect the light and deepen the tones. There is nothing worse than a messy shot.
Old abandoned cars are an example of how you can capture wonderful textures in your photography. When my spouse and I were visiting a country town we accidently came across an old abandoned car. This car was from either the Forties or the Fifties. It seemed like it had been left for years and years. As soon as I saw this car I became very excited. The minute I saw it I knew I wanted a rustic looking photo.
I knew that the steel, corrosion and discolored paint would look absolutely brilliant in monochrome. Once I took a string of images of the old vehicle I then opened the photo in Lightroom. I increased the white and highlights, amplified the blacks, and experimented with the tone curve. What does this signify? It simply means that I changed the tone of the shot to bring out the interesting points of the car. I wanted to increase the illuiminent steel against a understated, natural backdrop. Once you transform the light all of a sudden your different textures become stronger and so much more interesting.
Depending on how you want your different textures to look, you can use bright or filtered light. Filtered lighting is naturally better to use as it offers us more options in the long term. Strong light can create highlights and shadows that emphasize contrast. This can actually work to your advantage.
Gentle light can work very well for different textures because it emphasizes the detail. it can give your texture a more three dimensional look. If you are taking photos of an old fence post then the lack of intense brightness will bring out the grains of the wood. You will get to see the patterns, lines and shapes of your surface a lot more in subdued light. In harsh bright sunlight you may lose these fine points completely.
If you want to take pictures of stunning textures and not be concerned about the small detail, then a country scene with excellent contrast may work beautifully. A fence line sitting in dense grass can be a wonderful textured image to begin with. Once you position the camera so that the fence line is running into the distance you not only have beautiful different textures but you have great composition.
There are a lot more things you can do to draw attention to your different textures. There is a mobile phone application identified as Instagram. It has just joined forces with Lightroom. This is a marvellous way to enhance our photos! Instagram is an application that generates vintage, sepia, black-and-white and the whole other assortment of tones for your photos.
Instagram gives you the selection of antique tones. In other words if you employ an antique tone over your photo it looks like it was taken in 1977. Once Instagram meets Lightroom, you have the alternative of producing a different look and feel over your textured photographs.
Instagram also offers you the choice of various borders. You can have a stark black border to put emphasis on the de-saturated tones in a photo of dried golden leaves. Or, you can have a smooth ivory border to match the muted tones of a photo of a car park. Or you might have no border at all.
Remember that creating different textures is easy. Once you have photographed it then the pleasure begins. Make sure that you choose contrasting things like dead plants or metal. Shoot them at once. Then try turning the contrast and lighting of the image once you open it up in your favourite photo editing program.
I urge that you let inspiration and curiosity be your guides. Open up your picture in your favourite editing program and try a number of different things. Increase the differences between light and dark, reduce the yellow, cut the blue, change the white balance etc. These are just illustrations of things that I attempted when I was learning how to enhance my different textures in my photos. I got to a point where I understood what I preferred and designed many different possibilities for myself.
These different alternatives I created gave my shots a look and feel that I loved. Some were greatly saturated in deep yellows and warm tones. Some were a slight sepia, and some were a very sharp contrast in the monochrome medium. These lights, colours and looks, applied over rural subjects, made my textures come alive. Rusty fences took on a powerful presence. Metallic bands wound tightly over timber fence posts seemed interesting and from the past. Hanging metal bells looked classic and ageless.
Just think about surface and daylight first. Then your editing comes afterward. Think about the light and how it interacts with your setting to emphasise physical surfaces. Think about how lighting behaves and makes things appear different at various times of the day. Photograph unique natural and man-made different textures together. This will let you to explore differences between light and dark contained within your textures. The examination of light will allow you to bring out the depth and the detail within the photograph. Then apply some simple photo editing. This will enable you to vary the tone. Fine tuning the colour and light gives you the opportunity to create some very inventive photographs.
This is an exercise in artistic pursuit. This is not about winning first place in a photo competition or being better than anyone else. This is about how this makes you feel. You can enlighten people later on but first learn to interpret your light on how it plays upon the textures in your surroundings. Once you've shot this you can capture extraordinary textured pictures. Have fun and happy shooting!
A most ideal way to turn out to be expert in photography is to start photographing different textures. Types of textures may include timber, steel, foliage and brick. These things can really accentuate strength and an interesting light very rapidly and without difficulty. We can learn a lot from shooting these surfaces of different things. Once we get the true lighting to draw attention to these textures our images suddenly pick up and come to life. You can check these textures a variety of ways. I suggest shooting these appealing different textures with well-balanced light spread evenly across your photo. If you can't get well-balanced lighting then shadows may work to an advantage.
A very good photo that has interesting textures are dried leaves across a wooden exterior. You can wait until the sunlight has reduced in the sky to get some shadow below the leaves. You will find that your shadow will become part your placement of subjects within the photo. What this means is that the shadows can work to your advantage.
A pastoral appearance and feel is a wonderful point to start. Taking photos of old timber fence posts with nails and old wires can certainly bring wood as a texture to life. You see what we want is make the wood and the nails look so they look authentic. In other words make it look powerful by increasing the depth of the photo. We would like the viewer to feel like they can reach out and feel the texture.
In order to create this reality in your photos you need to construct a small list of things to photograph. The fence line and rusty nails are a good starting point. You may also like to take photos of differences in textures such as metal and wood. A steel band wrapped over a wood fence can make for a wonderful picture. A distinction in textures such as this can be shot in an antique tone and monochrome for extra drama and interest. They can also be shot in a selection of other tones that you can invent yourself in Photoshop or Lightroom.
What is a tone? A tone relates to light and colour. Saturdated colour, deep tones mean that your image may have a lot of black and grey tone, shadowy yellow and dark orange to it. Light tones may mean that your photograph has lots of shades of pale shades. In rustic photography, where we want to photograph wonderful different textures, we often find that saturated tones are a factor.
Deep tones can accentuate the shadow. In order for your photographs to look like they have real live texture then we need to draw attention to the intensity and light range contained within your shot. You may decide on a deep or dark tone to give that nail more rust or that metallic band around the wood more brightness.
When we use more contrast in our rural photography we get a superior looking texture. This is since the contrast in the light brings up the detail of the surface of the textured subject. The lighting works to bring out the detail in the lighter parts and deepen the shadow in the dark areas.
A means to creating successful textured surfaces is to keep your composition uncomplicated. Genuine textures, such as foliage and wood, work most ideal when there is nothing to clutter the shot. Simply capture the main subject and make sure there are no distracting things in the backdrop or the forefront. Once you've done this you can work to raise the contrast, perfect the light and deepen the tones. There is nothing worse than a messy shot.
Old abandoned cars are an example of how you can capture wonderful textures in your photography. When my spouse and I were visiting a country town we accidently came across an old abandoned car. This car was from either the Forties or the Fifties. It seemed like it had been left for years and years. As soon as I saw this car I became very excited. The minute I saw it I knew I wanted a rustic looking photo.
I knew that the steel, corrosion and discolored paint would look absolutely brilliant in monochrome. Once I took a string of images of the old vehicle I then opened the photo in Lightroom. I increased the white and highlights, amplified the blacks, and experimented with the tone curve. What does this signify? It simply means that I changed the tone of the shot to bring out the interesting points of the car. I wanted to increase the illuiminent steel against a understated, natural backdrop. Once you transform the light all of a sudden your different textures become stronger and so much more interesting.
Depending on how you want your different textures to look, you can use bright or filtered light. Filtered lighting is naturally better to use as it offers us more options in the long term. Strong light can create highlights and shadows that emphasize contrast. This can actually work to your advantage.
Gentle light can work very well for different textures because it emphasizes the detail. it can give your texture a more three dimensional look. If you are taking photos of an old fence post then the lack of intense brightness will bring out the grains of the wood. You will get to see the patterns, lines and shapes of your surface a lot more in subdued light. In harsh bright sunlight you may lose these fine points completely.
If you want to take pictures of stunning textures and not be concerned about the small detail, then a country scene with excellent contrast may work beautifully. A fence line sitting in dense grass can be a wonderful textured image to begin with. Once you position the camera so that the fence line is running into the distance you not only have beautiful different textures but you have great composition.
There are a lot more things you can do to draw attention to your different textures. There is a mobile phone application identified as Instagram. It has just joined forces with Lightroom. This is a marvellous way to enhance our photos! Instagram is an application that generates vintage, sepia, black-and-white and the whole other assortment of tones for your photos.
Instagram gives you the selection of antique tones. In other words if you employ an antique tone over your photo it looks like it was taken in 1977. Once Instagram meets Lightroom, you have the alternative of producing a different look and feel over your textured photographs.
Instagram also offers you the choice of various borders. You can have a stark black border to put emphasis on the de-saturated tones in a photo of dried golden leaves. Or, you can have a smooth ivory border to match the muted tones of a photo of a car park. Or you might have no border at all.
Remember that creating different textures is easy. Once you have photographed it then the pleasure begins. Make sure that you choose contrasting things like dead plants or metal. Shoot them at once. Then try turning the contrast and lighting of the image once you open it up in your favourite photo editing program.
I urge that you let inspiration and curiosity be your guides. Open up your picture in your favourite editing program and try a number of different things. Increase the differences between light and dark, reduce the yellow, cut the blue, change the white balance etc. These are just illustrations of things that I attempted when I was learning how to enhance my different textures in my photos. I got to a point where I understood what I preferred and designed many different possibilities for myself.
These different alternatives I created gave my shots a look and feel that I loved. Some were greatly saturated in deep yellows and warm tones. Some were a slight sepia, and some were a very sharp contrast in the monochrome medium. These lights, colours and looks, applied over rural subjects, made my textures come alive. Rusty fences took on a powerful presence. Metallic bands wound tightly over timber fence posts seemed interesting and from the past. Hanging metal bells looked classic and ageless.
Just think about surface and daylight first. Then your editing comes afterward. Think about the light and how it interacts with your setting to emphasise physical surfaces. Think about how lighting behaves and makes things appear different at various times of the day. Photograph unique natural and man-made different textures together. This will let you to explore differences between light and dark contained within your textures. The examination of light will allow you to bring out the depth and the detail within the photograph. Then apply some simple photo editing. This will enable you to vary the tone. Fine tuning the colour and light gives you the opportunity to create some very inventive photographs.
This is an exercise in artistic pursuit. This is not about winning first place in a photo competition or being better than anyone else. This is about how this makes you feel. You can enlighten people later on but first learn to interpret your light on how it plays upon the textures in your surroundings. Once you've shot this you can capture extraordinary textured pictures. Have fun and happy shooting!
About the Author:
Amy Renfrey is a professional photography teacher. She shows you how to take stunning photos every single time, even if you have never used a digital camera before. To discover how to photograph textures visit her website today.
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