A friend of a photographer friend sent me a random message saying that she loved my texture photography. This led to an awkward moment while I tried to figure out how to ask her what she meant without looking as if I had no idea what she meant.
In the end I went for the "I have no idea what you mean" approach, and she explained: it's photography where you bring out the texture of what you're shooting. To bring out the 3d effect, in other words.
I went back and looked, and I realised something: I'm always looking for depth.
A quick perusal of my favoured pictures:
and this:
Especially given that I've taken better water shots since; it's the depth of this shot that I enjoy.
You can see that I pick compositions that lead to a realisation of depth. My choice of splurging on a F 1.7 lens is explained too: smaller f number enhance the effect of depth, both by separating fore and back grounds, and by the shallow depth of field.
Even shots that technically have no depth are chosen for that effect:
That's why my sky shots are always, by preference, taken with buildings or statues or light poles, to give that:
I think I had a huge advantage: I was taking digital shots left and right back when nobody else was even using this stuff, on a camera that had only a few megabytes of memory and no control at all. I was always looking for the same thing: High contrast, colour, and something in the image that let you see how far you were looking. I mean, the first pic that I'm proud of looks like this:
And my fondness for the shadows of early morning and late evening, too:
Hell, even the way I shoot cosplayers looks like that:
Huh.
Guess I'm more predictable than I thought.
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