I am a 16 year old student, studying photography at AS Level. As one of my "projects", I must study and take photographs that illustrate "Texture and Tone". I would greatly appreciateany information, that you could give me, regarding the subject in hand. It would be very helpful, if you could reccommend web sites or photo's themselves that show texture and/or tone. I would greatly appreciate any response, Many thanks in anticipation. Rich

-- Rich Holland (rich656@hotmail.com), October 09, 2001

Answers

Lots of "texture and tone" here:

http://home-3.worldonline.nl/~jahoeben/

-- Chris Ellinger (chris@ellingerphoto.com), October 10, 2001.

Hi: I'd take a look at Beaumont Newhall's The History of Photography. It has an example of anything you'd care to see. Page 151 has Frederick H. Evan's Sea of Steps, anything by Edward Weston or Paul Strand. These are the old guard, but it's a great start and the reproductions are great. You might even want to look at the difference between the Pictoralists (who had little texture and all tone) vs. the Straight Photographers who had way too much texture but still lots of tone. Just a place to look Dean

-- Dean Lastoria (dvlastor@sfu.ca), October 10, 2001.

I read both of your questions and I think maybe I understand what you want. What are AS courses...is that like "gifted?" A ccelerated such and such?

Anyway, when I want "texture and tone," I usually look for old weathered things, like peeling paint, old boats, old barns, tree bark, ancient people (like me), and so forth.

Is that what you need? If not, be more specific.

-- Todd Frederick (fredrick@hotcity.com), October 11, 2001.

Besides looking at photographers like Edward Weston, Ansel Adams.....the quys who concentrated on "straight" photography, look at light around you. The lower the light in the sky, the more texture you will see on objects. Observe the light at all times during the day and you will see how light forms around things and changes their shape. Good luck.

-- kathleen (dogdishz@prodigy.net), October 17, 2001.