I am learning how to use textures with my photographs based on examining the paintings of old masters’ still lifes and flowers.
But, today, I realized you can get carried away with textures so I went back to photo basics and textured these ridiculously colorful parrot tulips within a tin funnel. Texture, the old fashioned way: part of the composition of the original photograph! Imagine.
But, then, I couldn’t resist and used some textures on a red parrot tulip, and then the first tulip in my cold, spring garden, and then these same yellow and red parrot tulips to try and look like a painting of an amaryllis by Piet Mondrian that I saw the other day.
Learning is fun as long as mastery is not my goal!
