Playing with colours

[SydneySnapper]

Had a play around with highlighting specific colours. It was a first for me and I'm sure that I went the long way around it, but my question is simple... does it work? I've had a few comments this far from friends, mostly mixed though. Two examples are below. The first is a drummer from Melbourne's Returned Services Day march, the second is a lorikeet I snapped outside the kitchen window.

I chose red for the drummer as it was the more dominant of colours within the picture and drew the eye to the actual drummer rather than the image as a whole. The lorikeet was highlighted as the remainder of the image was quite green, it had just rained so the leaves came up "really" green!




Camera: Canon EOS 350D Digital
Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture: f/3.2
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire

[ClickCanon]

I think the lorikeet might work if cropped just a little differently. The contrast is good, and the subject is obvious.

The first shot doesn't work for me. I couldn't figure out what it was at first, because the face just blends in without color. The red dominates the entire image and loses the subject.

[subyello]

The lorikeet is a nice pic, but I agree with the above post too much left around the bird .. trim it maybe placing the bird more the the left and off centre.

The first pic does not work for me, too much red in it.

[TW0R]

Maybe if you left some green in the first one it could compliment the red? I dont know. The second one is sex though. Cropping could be cool.