Texture Work Diary

How I Made These Images
For this project we had to find a range of textures and photograph them in different light levels to portray a range of effects within the textures. For these image I have used my phone's camera as I felt like their performance was superior to the camera's provided to us. In certain images, when capturing the image, I changed the focus of the camera to focus a particular part of the image and to blur the other. This is relevant for the last image.

This image is one of my favourite images for a range of reasons. I like the use of light to portray different textures within the image. I also like the connotations that can be made through the colour of the image and of the image itself.

Critical Evaluation
Despite the success in most of my images, I believe that there are a few that don't portray texture as well as the others.

These two images don't stand out to me when I'm looking at my contact sheets for texture. Both of the images show texture but only one. Rough and Smooth.

The first image doesn't stand out to me as it's just a plain pastel colour with nothing in the frame to break apart the colour. This is my most disliked image of the bunch. There is also no visible light
to change the perspective of the image.

The second image is interesting to look at as there is a few different things which break the block colour. There is a lot of light tin this image - However: as it's a reflective material, there are harsh reflections of the light and I believe this makes the image look unprofessional.


Progress

This first image isn't my favourite out of the top 5 images. However, I feel like it's an excellent example of texture photography.

To edit this image I used Photoshop and used a range of different tools to intensify colour and lighting. I used the Saturation tool to bring more vibrancy to the blue to make the texture seem more soft. I also used the Contrast tool to contrast the colours and to create a darker shadow within the hair to give more of an illusion of a soft texture. Next, I used the curves tool to adjust the light slightly to make the light at the top of the image less intense and to make the bottom of the image softer. Finally, I increased the sharpness of the image to make the textures more noticeable.


This is my favourite image out of the Top 5. There is no particular reason, this image just stands out to me.

To edit this image I used a range of tools and techniques. I started by flipping the image 180 degrees so that the light enters the frame from a different side and direction. By doing this, I've made the image more comfortable to look at. Next I changed the image black and white ad I felt that the colour was too distracting. As the black and white transfer wasn't enough, I proceeded to heighten the contrast and and to darken the lighting to create more shadows on the textures. I experimented with adjusting the sharpness but when I did, it made the image look fake gave the effect of white noise.


This image is my least favourite our of the top 5. It is however another great example of texture.

To start I cropped out the background that was showing through in the corners of the frame to make certain that there were no distraction from the leaf and it's textures. I felt like the colours of green were muted and I therefore heightened the saturation levels to make the colour more vibrant. I followed this by brightening the image slightly to make it seem like there was more light in the frame then there actually was.