NB: please, remember to upload all your photography challenge related photographs to the special photo gallery here!

And here is to start! What I'd like to see this fortnight (13 - 27th) is a Picture Perfect Photo. Or almost perfect! The tips we are going to let guide us for this challenge are simplicity and practice. The latter advice is applicable to every challenge, in the day and age of digital photography it costs next to nothing instead of taking one photo to take ten of every subject from a number of angles or different light and then choose one and discard the others, so use it. As to simplicity, find your favourite photos and study them before you begin, I find that mine are the ones with simple uncluttered bg and a "lot of my subject" showing. To achieve the simple look, either remove clutter from the bg physically, blur it, or zoom in. Even just coming up closer to your subject will help to simplify. Too many things to remember? Take one at a time on board, and move on. Remember less is more! I am off to practice it myself.
Can't wait to see what you come up with! Post us a link here for ease of checking up on each other's progress! See you!

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Have a nice day wherever you are, Olga

These are my entries for the challenge. I used a Fuji Finepix 7000S for these. I bought the camera on ebay (used) and have to say that I'm over the moon with it. The camera allows you to point and shoot which is great when you start out, but also has manual overrides to adjust shutter speed, exposure etc.

I also bought a really good book about photography which suggested taking close-ups (portraits) what aren't centered but where you cut off parts of it like in those two pictures. It does make for far more interesting pictures, I find!

http://www.scrapbook-bytes.com/galle...191615&cat=689

http://www.scrapbook-bytes.com/galle...191614&cat=689

Hope you like them!

Great challenge, and the cluttered or distracting background is something I've really been trying to work on. I'll try to post in the next couple of days and can't wait to see what everyone comes up with - mhermannsen's are fantastic!

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Very good start, mhermannsen! Looking forwards to seeing more, off myself with my thinking cap on!

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Okay...I submitted two photos.....interested in any comments you would provide, positive or negative....I see this challenge as a great way to improve photography skills and get some great ideas from others!!

http://www.scrapbook-bytes.com/galle...191676&cat=689

http://www.scrapbook-bytes.com/galle...191672&cat=689

So please tell me what you think, and what I could do to improve the shot!!!

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I love the flower shot, and the daughter shopt, I would probably crop it even tighter! But otherwise, I love the photos!

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Here are two pics for the challenge.
http://www.scrapbook-bytes.com/galle...191748&cat=689
http://www.scrapbook-bytes.com/galle...0&ppuser=10892

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Here are my 2 entries... This is the first challenge I have done in a long time!
http://www.scrapbook-bytes.com/galle...191762&cat=689

http://www.scrapbook-bytes.com/galle...191761&cat=689

thanks for looking!

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