FEATURED: Interesting Textures

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ASSIGNMENT DETAILS:
• Publisher: Creation Today
• Purpose: Jules, the Graphic Designer for Creation Today, is always looking for stock photos for upcoming webinars and social media.
• Request: Interesting textures and background photos. Textures such as walls or fabric, stone backgrounds, water/ocean, leaves, sand, rocky beaches, still water, knit sweaters. Simple things that can be used as a background for iPhone wallpapers or social media posts.
• Special Instructions: Images with lots and lots of negative space so there is room for text and information. Simpler is usually better.
• Orientation: Any orientation.
• Photo Specs: Highest quality possible!
• How to Submit: Members can follow the A, B, C process outlined here. (Instructions for non-members can be viewed here.) You can submit up to 10 photos.
• Remuneration: $5 per winning photo. There will be 5 winners. But all submitted photos will be given to Creation Today.
• Terms: By submitting your photo(s) on this forum, you agree to the terms outlined in the STS Photo Assignment Agreement.
• Deadline: Midnight Saturday, August 28, 2021 (or until this topic is no longer highlighted yellow).

LEARN HOW:
Watch how I shot this assignment and get related training on how to shoot it yourself at, On Assignment: Interesting Textures!

WATCH CRITIQUE:
Watch the photos submitted for this assignment get critiqued live by registering for the August 31 Photo Coaching Webinar!

[James Staddon]

I took a lot of texture photos, but I think these are the ones that would work well as true “backgrounds” with lots of negative space.

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[Blessings Captured]

Here are some textures I did of coffee. I took them with evening side-light to help bring out the details in the beans.
-Hannah

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[James Staddon]

Nice @blessingscaptured! Lighting is gorgeous!

[Marietta VanGorp]

Marietta Van Gorp

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[Marietta VanGorp]

Kristina Van Gorp

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[Harry Lancaster]

Today my wife and I were driving around the lake near our church looking for interesting textures. These are the eight I settled on as the best.

#1: This is my favorite. There were several horses grazing in the field and I was able to get close enough to take a nice pictures of the side of this horse. I like the texture that the horse’s hair provides.
#2: We came across a dead tree, weathered, and without any bark. The wood was bleached out by the sun and I thought the coloring was really interesting.
#3 & #8: As we were leaving the lake was came across a business that sells grave stones. Some of the pieces of marble on display had some great patterns to them.
#4 & #5: This was a stone/gravel portion of the road. I took two different pictures of this stretch of road with different magnifications.
#6: I wanted to see if I could get an interesting shot with the lake water providing the texture and this was the best I could manage today.
#7: This was a plank retaining wall. The texture is a little more on the busy side but I still like the way the picture turned out.

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[James Staddon]

This is REALLY great guys! I’ve never critiqued photos of textures like this before, so it’s going to be fun to figure out how to do this!

[Caitlin Compton]

This was a fun assignment! Once you start seeing textures, you notice them everywhere! 🙂

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[Blessings Captured]

We went to the creek last week, and I enjoyed taking texture pictures.
~Esther

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[Blessings Captured]

I spent some time this last couple of weeks taking and editing pictures of interesting textures. I did, however, pull two photos from my portfolio.
When I was editing my pictures, I noticed that several of them turned out crooked. I fixed this with the editing program but I was wondering if any of you had tips on how to make your lines straight in camera.

-Ruthann

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[Blessings Captured]

Hear are my other five.
On Creation Today’s social media accounts I noticed that they do seasonal sales. So I tried to get some Christmas themed textures. On the pine tree, I made sure to take off the spiderwebs- spiders don’t live in the winter. 🙂
-Hannah

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[Blessings Captured]

I shot these with my “Vivitar DVR 430HD”. It has a fixed focal length and a fixed aperture. While doing the assignment, I found out that I can’t get to close to things or it won’t focus. Once figuring that out I was able to get the pictures clearer.

-Reuben

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[Erin Phillips]

Here are my submissions! We were just in the Blue Ridge Mountains, which provided some perfect textures.

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[Erin Phillips]

The other pictures that I was going to submit had a problem, so that is why they’re here later then my first.

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