The authors claim we conceive of texture as largely smooth and rough. I hadn’t previously considered this, but it seems true. I did a search for adjectives of texture and found a long list containing many words only loosely related, like angular, dreary, or dull. Texture, it seems, should describe what something feels like. Some words that seem relevant are included below. (Unfortunately, blogger doesn’t allow columned text.) Most of these could be categorized as varieties of smooth and rough, even adjectives related to the presence or absence of moisture, such as wet and dry.Texture is less prominent than color. The quality of light affects how texture is perceived. Light creates shadow and thereby depth, the visual equivalent of texture. Direct light will make more pronounced texture. When doing the assignment it is important not the look for textured things, but to look for texture itself. The idea is to not to shoot mental conceptions, but to look for texture in the environment. Shooting texture often requires shooting close.
Unfortunately, the camera does not always cooperate and it is not possible to get in as close as I would like. Nevertheless, here are some examples I shot Saturday morning on a walkabout in my very immediate neighborhood.
barbed
bristly
clammy
coarse
cottony
damp
dented
downy
dry
dusty
elastic
embossed
encrusted
engorged
etched
feathery
fine
foamy
furry
gelatinous
gooey
granular/grainy
grooved
hairy
indented
jagged
knobbed
moist
mushy
padded
patterned
pitted
pliable
pocked
pointed
polished
prickly
puffed
ragged
ribbed
ridged
sandy
scaled
scratchy
sharp
silky
slick
slimy
slippery
sodden
soft
soggy
spiky
spongy
stubbly
swollen
thorny
tiled
viscous
velvety
wavy
wet
wooden
woolen
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