#light direction

How to Take Great Nature Photos: Know Texture discusses how textures can increase the depth and interest of photographs. It then goes into the aspects of light that go into creating texture in a flat image.

Purple Thistle Nature (and in fact the entire world) is full of textures, and emphasizing textures in your photography can be a great way to create powerful photos. Everything we look at has texture, even something completely smooth, so I think it’s easy to take texture for granted, and forget how important it can be. Photos are, of course, completely flat, but by adding texture effectively we…