A while back I took some wonderful online photography classes by Kathleen Clemons on Fine Art Nature Photography. Kathleen introduced me to the idea of superimposing textures on my images using Photoshop. In the Fine Art Nature Photography classes we had to chose our subjects from the natural world. So I first added textures to some photographs of flowers and trees, and very much like the results.
As a scientist I learned to develop an inquisitive attitude and a good question to ask is always ‘what if?’.
What if I added textures to images of urban scenes? Urban environments are replete with elements of designs such as lines and shapes, and sometimes colour. This was the reason I was attracted to take the two photographs below.
In the above photograph, taken in the area of Edinburgh called Newhaven, the roof and pavement provide some texture to the composition, but by superimposing a texture on top of my original image, I created more of an ‘urban feel’ to the photograph.
I was attracted to the industrial building in Musselburgh by the colour, lines and shapes. The walls also add texture to the composition, which I further enhanced by superimposing a texture of my own. As in the previous image, the final result has more of an ‘urban feel’ in my opinion than the original photograph.
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