after experimenting with linen card stock, crumpled paper, the photoshop fiber filter and the crumbling cement wall from yesterday, i eventually went with the corroded bottom of a frying pan...
i have no idea why i am obsessed with making my own textures... i'm not sure i even LIKE textures... i expect i'm using this as a way of avoiding annoying things like real work and cooking dinner...
@ltodd hmmm... Interesting... Tx for the link! I kind of want to try that now... I wish I could find a good use for textures because I kind of like the concept... But it doesn't seem to work with the images I like to create...
@northy I looked at your images & I do understand what you mean about textures not natively working with your style - you would not use them to add complex colour tones, ( !! ) and your images are shot and processed with such strength of tone and contrast, that most grunge texture would fight against your style. April's fine-art style works in B&W ( like http://www.thecoffeeshopblog.com/2013/11/coffeeshop-texture-tutorial-for.html) and wet-plate style, but now I think about it I have rarely used textures on B&W & then mostly to decrease contrast - like http://365project.org/ltodd/365/2012-07-04
Fab on black. It takes me long enough to work on other people's textures, but... do I get out of cooking dinner if I make my own? :) Deal. I also like the twisted base (handle?) holding up the candle. It's lovely.
The technicalities are beyond me but the image is very evocative - someone said Elizabethan - Thanks @amandal - That's exactly the way the image feels to me.
Lovely simplicity here. Should be a book cover.
I collect textures all over, and hardly use them. My OH is always laughing at me taking pictures of concrete floors and the like...
@ltodd yes - i think you are correct... i often look at Rachel's images, or April Milani's and think how much i love what they do with textures, and how they manage the subtleties of tone... but i have come to realize that style doesn't work for me... which is fine... i just hadn't realized how integral texture was to that style...
I am now heading off to check the bottom of my frying pan...
I collect textures all over, and hardly use them. My OH is always laughing at me taking pictures of concrete floors and the like...
Very creative Northy!