Texture

Two Kinds of Detail in One Frame

St Paul's Cathedral, shot from by the Tate Modern, pairs a densely detailed bottom half, bridge, people, buildings, against a completely plain, smoothly graded sky on top. The contrast between the two kinds of texture, dense and soft, is what makes the image.

Water and Grain

Durdle Door, this time focused on the water rather than the arch itself, gets its texture from how the light sits on the surface, paired with the grain of the film itself.

An Unfinished Building

A construction site before the cladding and windows went in, caught in a lattice shape that wouldn't exist once the building was finished. Paired with visible film grain, it makes for a texture that's genuinely temporary.

Chopped Light

Balconies near London Bridge, catching light at an angle that chops it into pieces across the frame. Roughly half the image sits in shadow, with the amount of shadow decreasing gradually across the frame rather than cutting sharply, which pulls the eye across the image as the light changes.