Header photo: Image by photographer Tony Cooney and model Kelli Kaleidoscope

Textures are anything you can feel on your skin when it touches a surface. In photography, texture is the visual depiction of this feeling in a two-dimensional image.

Successfully capturing this feeling in your photos will add more depth to your work. You can even make the texture of a surface the subject of your image, such as the roughness of sandpaper, the silkiness of hair, or the smoothness of water. 

Whilst you can use photography techniques (i.e. the right zoom, lens, aperture, lighting, etc.) to capture texture, post-production techniques (editing the contrast, using monochrome, etc.) can be used to enhance it.

MasterClass provides some excellent tips for capturing texture in photography, and Shutterstock gives some fabulous examples of photographers who have captured texture in their images. 

We hope you enjoy this photo collection, which shows how creatives on PurplePort have fabulously captured different types of textures in their work.

There are other photo collections full of inspiring images you can explore on The Purple Blog.

If you need more to get your creative juices flowing, check out our Image Search, which you can use to look through PurpePort images using keyword tags (go ahead and see what you can find!).

#1


Image by model Jessica Wilcock


#2


Image by photographer CerithMJ


#3


Honestly, I'm Just A Toadstool by photographer JohnG


#4


Miley the cocker spaniel by photographer Richard Bown Photography


#5


Excuse Me, Make Way, Coming Through by photographer JohnG


#6


Alisha by photographer Amie Boulton Photography


#7


Astrantia Major by photographer Tarmoo


#8


Ink cap by photographer Marcus Scott


#9


Image by photographer Ludmila


#10


Stormfront by photographer Matthew Jones


#11


"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs" by model Jaya Piccaso


#12


Rust by photographer art65


#13


Natural fusion by model MariaGu


#14


Refresh by photographer Lena Selkin Photography


#15


Image by photographer KiranK


#16


Lady Belle by photographer Lloyd Moore


#17


The Tina by photographer KiranK


#18


Making A Splash by photographer Cphotography


#19


Tilde Rust by photographer Shynee Foto


#20


Are you looking at me? by photographer VanEyke


#21


Image by photographer KiranK


#22


Image by photographer Bullets


#23


Roosting Small Skipper. by photographer Labrat55


#24


Anti-Social Distancing by artist/painter Snowyman


#25


Resting Ringlet. by photographer Labrat55


#26


Blackberry up close by photographer Jamie Price


#27


Image by photoshop wizard Alectrona


#28


Image by model Tink Kaos


#29


Time to get closer by photographer Marcus Scott


#30


Image by photographer Mind in the Shutter


#31


New "Khunbish" tie by photographer Landicaa


#32


Rain by photographer PJ_images


#33


Honey Bee by photographer Richard Winn


#34


Image by photographer MidDevonPhotography


#35


Megatron by photographer Antwan


#36


Atangle by photographer Iris Ferret


#37


Image by photographer KiranK


#38


bored at home by photographer various.photos


#39


Image by photographer Purple Gecko Photography


#40


Backlit Mycenoid by photographer Richard Winn


#41


Ami by photographer Sarah McNally


#42


Image by photographer Compgod2012


#43


Nature herself seems on the flitting by photographer spencer rushton


#44


Image by model Kelli Kaleidoscope


#45


So delicate by photographer Marcus Scott


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