NEW Intermediate Assignment #4: Primary Colour

Is that really "primary color" as in "single primary color" (like blue to convey professionalism, green for freshness,...), or "complementary primary colors" (like green vs red, blue vs orange,...)?

Moreover, would it be possible to have a further tip as what is considered "primary"? Are we talking about RGB or CMY here?

Would that work, or does it need to be vivid?

That is also what I am afraid of. My guess is that it's now time to find a pair of red cherries with a green leaf. (but as I'm not down under, no cherries before several months)

What about renaming this assignment to "Vivid Primary Colour"? With the current description, and without pegelli's answer, I would have submitted a green pastel shot in order to convey freshness.

For me, Gabriel, that's definitely a pass as well as being a good shot.

The good thing is that I learned things with both shots (even if that's not related to the topic of this assignment)

First shot:

*Ice is "quickly" melting. You'd better use 200/400 ISO than 100 ISO, as the melting can be noticeable within the 30s needed for this kind of exposure at 100 ISO.

*As the ice cubes are melting, composition starts to be harder: cubes are moving by themselves on the small water area resulting from the melting

*DOF: This is shot with a 90mm lens at f/22, yet the depth of field is too small to my taste. It seems that the only way to have an increased DOF is by using a wider lens and crop. This way you can keep the same angle of view but an increased DOF. On a 14Mp APS-C sensor, this should provide significantly better image quality than using f/22 or more.

Second shot:

*White balance is adjusted for my flash (flash on the rear left of the kiwi slice). My background is lit by a torchlight.I wanted my background to be red (in reality it is red), but due to the differences between light sources, it turned out blue. That means that if you want control over your colors, you would better adjust your lights to provide the same "white". For this setup, that likely means color correcting the flash (using gelatines) in order to match the torchlight.

@Berean: The rose in #1 is vivid, but it looks more pink than red. Think of your first set of new water color paints as a kid. That's the kind of effect we're looking for here. It's a lovely shot, by the way . The high-key lighting and pattern in #2 dilute what impact you might have had from the red and yellow. There is also a lot of red in the yellow channel so the contrast betwen these colors is not as great as one might expect. Please try again with this assignment.

Cheers... Brian

BTW, the exif is not there in either image. The "b" at the end of http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2797/4328092369_5bce4492c3_b.jpg indicates that you have linked to the "big" (flicker generated) rendering of your original. I believe replacing the "b" with an "o" will link to the JPG file you uploaded to flicker containing the exif data.

Berean - I'm not getting the exif on these, but I like them a lot. You do a wonderful job on the these still-lifes (lives??). I'd like it if you start a thread away from the assignments just of your still-life shots. There is probably a thread already in the themed views section.