Click-a-Pic Challenge #3 "Seeing Red"

[shutterspeed]

Red is a bold color, passionate even. It's very expressive. It's hard to miss. It gets your attention.

For our next photo challenge I want everyone to photograph the color red. The subject matter is entirely up to you, but the majority of the photo needs to contain the color red.

Think about the things around your house, in your yard, at the grocery store, or around town that are red. How would you photograph them? Think about the composition of your photo, focus on your perspective.

If you have any questions please feel free to post them or email me. I'm here to help. Also, it would be helpful for participants to either number or title their submitted photos so when we go to pick the top 3 it's easier to identify photos for everyone's recognition!

You have from Friday July 10th to Thursday July 16th to shoot your photos for this theme. Please submit only photos taken during that time frame. Below are some examples to get the creative juices flowing. Good luck and I look forward to seeing everyones photos!

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1173/537616002_dd762d3806.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1017/1159735675_712dbedac8.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/182/373388281_060fde41e8.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/207/471981376_e2cba22c93.jpg

REMEMBER:
- You may post up to 2 photos per challenge.
- Post-processing and use of actions ARE ALLOWED.
- Photos must be taken by you during the challenge week.
- Photos must be posted in the *new* PHOTOGRAPHY gallery & in this thread.
- PLEASE SIZE PICS to no larger than 600px WIDE and/or TALL.*

[nina81]

Oh no, I missed #2!!!! I had lots of ideas but always missed the opportunity to do the pic!

But I have already one idea for the color red and looking forward doing it!!!!
Your pics are great...especially the car! I love the perspective of it!!

[MissMint]

oooooooooooooooh!!! :yay:
I've been dancing around all morning waiting to see what the next challenge would be! Ok..this one requires some thought.
Fantastic examples Sarah!!

Can't wait to see everyone's PICS!!!!!


And Nina - by all means you can still post your SHOE pics! You won't be eligible to win but we'd love to see 'em!!

[joscie]

how fun! I posted my shoe pictures last night in the gallery, but forgot to link it up in the thread, oops!
I am blogging the click a pic and wanted to show that red car, did you take that picture? who should I credit?

[shutterspeed]

I am blogging the click a pic and wanted to show that red car, did you take that picture? who should I credit?

I took the shot of the classic red car at the Nacogdoches Texas Blueberry Festival June 2007, classic car show. :)

Any photos I use as examples are photos I've taken (unless otherwise specified)...just FYI for future reference! :)

[joscie]

I love that car shot! :)

[audscraps]

I seriously have a new reason to look forward to Fridays! :happydance:

[audscraps]

Here's mine. I hope this counts as mostly red. :smug:

I cant wait to see what everyone else does!

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y242/babysurprise05/radioflyercolorblastweb.jpg

[KirstieGai]

oh oh oh, my fav colour!!!

[KirstieGai]

http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/redcar.jpg

[MissMint]

Nice ladies!!!! Love that classic wagon Audra!

[audscraps]

thanks missy mint! ;)

gabby inspired me to do vintage. this is a vintage lomo action. i like the way it turned out. it looks vintage but still has nice color. (i think so anyway. lol)

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y242/babysurprise05/radioflyervintage.jpg

[Scrappie Irene]

What a fun challenge and fortunately I didn't forget it this time, lol.

Here's mine:
http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/thumbs/IMG_1150K.jpg (http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=6498)

My husband said it was a stupid photo, lol. He doesn't like it when not the whole photo is sharp while I like the effect of only a little part is sharp. But I will look for some other red things in the house. We have some very nice red roses in the garden, but it's raining here.

[Scrappie Irene]

And here's my second: My Old Accordeon

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j208/Silent29/Scraplayouts/IMG_1155K.jpg

(It's in the gallery, but I can't link it back here, because the shop and gallery are down now, so I've uploaded it to Photobucket)

http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/thumbs/IMG_1155K.jpg (http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=6502)

On my second photo you see my old accordeon. I have it 30 years now and when we bought it it was already second hand. So some parts are missing and it doesn't look new at all, but I still love to play on it. I had lessons from my 9th until my 14th. Around 20 years ago I stopped playing, but my husbands grandmother (who's a Russian) loves accordeon music. It's her favourite instrument. So since a year I play again and I take my accordeon to play old Russian songs for her.

[originalcher1]

http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/thumbs/flagsmall.jpg (http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=6503)
Well I am loving taking photos of things that I take for granted each day. I also took a photo of strawberries and it looked amazingly like the one in the gallery- I thought I had loaded the wrong photo for a sec- great minds think alike :) Love the strawberries.
Thanks for another great challenge

[MissMint]

Had to go with cars after seeing Sarahs pic! There's an informal car show every week in the summer near my house so I popped over to hunt for red cars for the challenge. Want to know the scariest part? I didn't even use ANY color actions on these pics - that's how RED the car actually is - crazy right?


http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/2009-07-13-043.jpg (http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=6511)

http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/2009-07-13-042.jpg (http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=6510)

Didn't enter this one (couldn't CHOOSE) but had to share:


http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq23/missmint/2009-07-13-044.jpg

[shutterspeed]

WOW! you guys are doing great. and Miss Mint i have a fondness for classic cars! :D

[moomories]

i tried to get involved in the other challenges and just for oen reason or other let them pass me by

this time i thought ok RED........red to me means love, and what i love most is my husband and children, the thing that represents my husband the most that is red is his coke cup that he picked up at a garage sale, he loves LOTS OF ICE with his drinks and this cup reminds me of him when i look at it and he isnt around. I makes me smile because this little quirk of his is part of him

TFL :heartu:

i used canon rebel xsi the settings i believe were 1/125 f-8.0 flash on sorry im not very technical im still learning how to use a slr :idiot:

i later duplicated the photo and colour burned it a bit, then used the bitchin b/w action at 35% colour dodge

i will try and find somethign red that represents my kids later on in the day hopefully



http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/fridaychallenge.jpg

[MissMint]

I love the explanation behind your shot moomories!! It really makes the pic more meaningful!

[shutterspeed]

that's really cool moomories!! :D i like explanations of photos, really brings the meaning of it out! your post processing is fabulous! :)

[moomories]

thank you for you kind words ladies! :heartu:

[PixelChick]

Loved this challenge! I had so many ideas for this one that it was hard to pick only 2!

My city has quite a few red pieces of art/sculpture downtown, all of which I've seen thousands of times over the course of my life. I decided to use a few of them as my subjects, but made sure I was seeing them in a new or different way than I normally would.

Sculpture

http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/calderforweb.jpg

Button

http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/buttonforweb.jpg

TFL!

[topcat]

Wow, what great fun, I wanted to play along last week, but the week just vanished b4 I knew it. I lurve red, well it is the color of love ;) Love everybodies photo's too.

My photography def needs practice, I'm just a holiday snapper really, so this is great fun for practice. My red photo's are of a rose from the garden & some tomatoes, not from the garden because they're still green!!

I'm not sure how I get the thumb nails? so this bit prob won't work, but they are in the click a pic gallery. ;)

http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/thumbs/rose2.jpg (http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=6524)


http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/thumbs/Toms.jpg (http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=6525)

[Aemilius]

Not very inspired this week, seems there aren't that many red things around my house but found a few ideas while wandering around with the stroller.

Deserted Drink:

http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/coca_w.jpg?125 (http://http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=6527)

Fire Hydrant

http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/fire_w.jpg (http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=6526)

[Scrappie Irene]

It's fun to see how different each photo is with Red as subject!

[MissMint]

oh I agree Irene!!!

[shutterspeed]

lol i know! it's so cool looking in the photo gallery and seeing all red photos! :D

[joscie]

i loved those shots, all were fabulous! That car was so pretty miss mint, and that huge red button?! fabulous!
my shots were from the williams sonoma store. You probably saw them already. I was planning to wait out the week and see if I got any more red shots to put up, but been too busy to catch any more red. (click to see them in the gallery)
http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/thumbs/IMG_3128.jpg (http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=6482)
http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/thumbs/IMG_3126.jpg (http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=6481)
I can't wait to see the next challenge :)

[AlliJ2008]

My first click-a-pic entry with my DSLR! :yay: One of my son's play ladybugs on a white erase board (he loves laying all the bugs out on the white because you can see them really well). Then I used one of Emily Powers overlays to burn the edges. Otherwise it was really white.
http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/ladybugWEB600.jpg (http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=6528)

[glumirk]

I FINALLY figured out what to take a picture of! Our bathroom is red, our couch is (faded) red, our vacuum is red, our tablecloth is red, my hair is red, but I couldn't come up with anything. Then I remembered the Rebel!

http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/IMG_1650_copy.jpg (http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=6529)

[KirstieGai]

I FINALLY figured out what to take a picture of! Our bathroom is red, our couch is (faded) red, our vacuum is red, our tablecloth is red, my hair is red, but I couldn't come up with anything. Then I remembered the Rebel!



:lol2:

[nina81]

Ok, I am late again...but finally I managed to take my camera with my to the grocery store! So here is my picture for seeing red!!

http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=6534

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/9708/dsc2930.jpg (http://img31.imageshack.us/i/dsc2930.jpg/)

[shutterspeed]

oh wow....looks i've got my work cut out for me choosing a "winner". Congrats guys...awesome job! :cheer:

[shutterspeed]

Ok so here's the part I enjoy the least...trying to narrow it down to a single "winner". *sigh*

But I think this week's Red winner is.....

PixelChick - Sculpture
http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/calderforweb.jpg
the dramatic sculpture against the sky was a great shot! :)

Honorable Mentions:

Scrappie Irene - Old Accordion
http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/IMG_1155K.jpg
excellent composition!

Moomories - Hubby's Favorite Cup
http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/fridaychallenge.jpg
the red cup on the black & white floor provide a great contrast!

Mint Chick Mentions:
Kirstie - Red Truck
http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/redcar.jpg
i had to do a double take because I thought it was a real truck! :)

Joscie - Bar-b-q Pig Apron
http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/IMG_3126.jpg
I just thought this was so funny. :teehee:

Miss Mint - Vintage Car
http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/2009-07-13-043.jpg
I have a weakness for shiny old cars!

KEEP UP THE EXCELLENT WORK!!! :smug:

[ingridfasquelle]

Congrats to everyone ! Sarah, i love how you sum up the pics just with a few words ! This makes me want to double take the pics which has been taken ! And most of the time, i see something different i missed when seeing it first !

So keep up the great job too ! ;)

[joscie]

Congratulations PixelChick and the honorable mentions! :) (personally I still wish I could go and see that huge red button in person!)

[Scrappie Irene]

Congrats PixelChick!

[MissMint]

Great job everyone!! The pics were SO good. So happy I don't have to choose!

[PixelChick]

Thanks for choosing mine! :happydance:
All of the entries were fabulous!

[glumirk]

Congrats! I loved seeing those sculptures!

[moomories]

CONGRATS PIXELCHICK, that is an awsome red pic i agree love the sky in the back and also the angle the photo was taken from

thanks for the honourable mention it was so much fun participating cant wait to do it again!:smug:

[RhiG122]

Did not join in in time...added a photo simply for viewing!

Feelin' Hot, Hot, Hot - (my hubby's pepper plant...they are actually quite sweet but as you can tell they are just baking in the hot south texas sun.)

http://www.peppermintcreative.com/gallery/data/506/pc-cap03-feelinhot.jpg

[MissMint]

Stunning. The mix of reds is gorgeous!