Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai.
Today we're going to try to take some photos of texture.
Basically having the subject parallel to the sensor....
We can use them for so many
different things like backgrounds. Selling them on stock websites. Of course,
they have to be edited, but this is the first piece of that puzzle. So let's get
started. Going into manual focus.
At least for me the most obvious texture is
all this snow around. It's pretty uniform. There's some areas that are very clean.
So I'm going to take a few of those.
What I'm using is the Canon EOS M5
32mm f/1.4 and one of the extension tubes that I have for the EF-M
system, a 10mm. So it's gonna get me a little closer than I can with just
the lens. Human-made structures are a great one for textures because there is
a lot of uniformity usually. So this brick wall. Also, the sidewalks. Gonna
take photos of those. I am using autofocus. It's pretty quick. I just have to get
relatively close, so the camera can figure out where to focus...
Try this fence here. In this case the fence, you really want to have something
pretty good at macro...
I'll definitely have to crop that one, but it might work.
This one's got some nice rust on it.
Some of these won't work too well because the rounded surfaces, but you can
potentially crop in.
If the tree is thick enough it'll work nicely, but these are pretty thin. I might
go over to an.. area, first I'll try this one at least though.
If you can't fully fill the frame
with your subject, don't worry about it. Because you can always
crop. But it is nice to have more resolution when you're.. possible.. when
you're able.. possible. But it's not a huge deal if you can't.
This one's got some paint on it, so it'll look a little different.
That was a quick attempted trying to do texture photos outdoors. Of course, all
the human buildings of things work really well because they're so uniform.
They have so many flat surfaces. Out with the trees and things it's a little bit
more challenging. Maybe something more telephoto would work better, but you
still want to get pretty close to the subject. So you need a good amount of
magnification on your lens.
Anyways, I'm gonna try this more in the
future, but we'll see what we've got in these. Or you've already seen them, but
I'm gonna check them out. And anyways
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