Blue Light
by melismatica

Comment by seanami:
A single light source...

Three Faded Roses
by melismatica

Comment by MrAkamai:
Very good composition is marred by excessive grain/compression.

Yellow
by melismatica

Comment by melismatica:

Originally posted by Sonifo: The white balance is way off.

I have to respectively disagree with you here. I set the white balance in my camera manually from a sheet of white paper held near the subject. The colors are quite true to the original scene.

Three Faded Roses
by melismatica

Comment by jxpfeer:
There looks like a not of noise in this picture. I don't know if it's intentional or not but it seems very grainy to me.

Blue Light
by melismatica

Comment by hunkydorey:
yeh but only one bloody blue light look at the name of the challenge

Three Faded Roses
by melismatica

Comment by kbrashear:
Very pretty.

Three Faded Roses
by melismatica

Comment by Crafty Sue:
good arrangement light on left not too great but sometimes can,be helped 6

Yellow
by melismatica

Comment by Sonifo:
The background is to wrinkly for me. The white balance is way off. I don't much care for the lighting and the colors. The banana blends in with the surroundings to much. I don't much care for the look on his face either. Hmmm...I didn't vote on this and if I did I would have given it a 4. Sorry, but it really isn't as great a shot as some of the others.

The best way to learn how to take a photo is to look at your photo and critisize it yourself. What can you change to make it better? What about composition, lighting and focus? Look at other portraits and see how they did theirs and learn from it. Experiment. Take more then 20 shots.

Don't give up. Keep shooting! :-)

Yellow
by melismatica

Comment by mocabela:
I really liked this shot.. the 10 was me.

40
by melismatica

Comment by melismatica:

Originally posted by BruB: This photo doesn't capture the idea of the passed challenge in an interesting way. There isn't anything of actual visual appeal about it, so a close up shot of it doesn't make for a dynamic photo.

Whether or not this photo has visual appeal is a matter of taste.I liked the bold colors and the graphic interest of the number 40. Both my husband and my daughter saw this at separate times and spontaneously reacted with, "Cool!" I'm not saying it is an amazing photo I just don't think that it can be so easily dismissed as having no visual appeal. Perhaps not to you but it obviously had appeal for me because I made the picture. Some people made good points about there not being a subject and I'll give them that. To me the subject was the color scheme. I don't think an image always has to be literal; this is a tree, this is a bird, this is a fly, this is a birthday party, etc.. Sometimes it is about discovering pleasing colors, shapes, and design in the mundane. The challenge was to photograph something one has never photographer before in a location one has never made photographs before. It certainly qualified in that respect. To me, it shows a new way of viewing the mundane or thinking outside the box. The number 40 can actually have quite a bit of significance that doesn't require me to point out for the observer.