SNAPSHOTS Fall Challenge

texture

If yesterday’s weekly challenge wasn’t enough for you, get ready, because here comes for our big SNAPSHOTS fall challenge. This one even comes with prizes too! Think Starbucks and iTunes gift cards, maybe a book or two. More details on that later. First, a bit about what we are looking for.

What we mean by texture, in so far as this challenge, is an image that is focused on the texture of something. The subject of your image should be the texture, not an image of something else that simply has a nice texture. Your image should isolate the texture. To do this, try to avoid needless background elements. For example if you want your image to focus on the wood of a barn door, then isolate only the door or a portion of it. If you’re using the texture in a flower, then use only a part of the flower, not the garden.

Doing this will allow you to play with light, color, magnification, and manipulating the orientation of the image, using those elements and techniques to your benefit in showcasing the texture. Don’t worry, there are several examples below.

Did You Say Prizes?

Why yes, I did. There will be 3 prizes:

• most original texture
• best use of color
• editors pick

In addition, there will be three honorable mentions that will each have their texture showcased for week as the publication header.

The Specifics

1. Please submit between 1 and 5 images, narrowing your focus to texture only.
2. Please create a title for your texture or texture collection, placing it UNDER your first image.
3. Please include the sub-title texture challenge.
4. Please do not include a description of your texture or what it is. More fun to guess!
5. Please do not use Photoshop, external filters, or manipulation apps.
6. Please us the photography and texture challenge tags.
7. This is a time limited challenge. You have from today until midnight, November 1 / 2018.

Reminder

While the fall texture challenge is time limited, all our previous weekly challenges are ongoing, like this weeks pet tribute challenge, and you are free to participate in them at any time.

Examples

The following examples should give you some ideas as well as a sense of what we’re looking for. They were all created through playing with my camera settings such as light, color, magnification, and sometimes manipulating the orientation of an image. None of the images used Photoshop, external filters, or manipulation apps.

Water Textures

Wood Textures

Sky Textures

Combined Textures

“Can You Guess What They Are” Textures

Participation

This challenge is open to anyone with an active Medium account. Not yet a writer for us? Here is a link to our SNAPSHOT information page. Take a look at it, review our submission guidelines, and if you think you’d like to participate then leave a response in the comment section below asking to be added as a writer. One of the editors will get back to you shortly letting you know you’ve been added.

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