Web Project...

I don't know where the pink blotches are from at all .... but I thought it was lighting from a lamp or something. Close encounters of a fourth kind maybe ......

 

The pic, oh yes, your colours are really soft and inviting. The arrangement and cam level are really well chosen. Maybe I wouldn't have chopped the chopstick though ;)

Very blue. Would like to see a more crisp deliniation of colors. The white flowers are a little washed out against the pale blue background.

I intended to give the photo a "bluish" tone so that it would match the rest of the web page... but thanks for the tips...

Well, it's quite a good photo but I regret you place objects just the ones behind the others.

Are you sure that the blotches aren't jpeg artifacts? Jpeg compression can be really ugly on areas of almost flat colour.

 

I seem to recall hearing that the red channel of at least the coolpix CCD had slightly more noise than the green and blue channels. As many digital cameras of the same price range tend to use the same or similar CCD elements, maybe yours suffers from the same problem. Normally this would result in points of noise (that will increase in amplitude as the length of the exposure increases) but with the addition of jpeg compression causing smoothing of the noise, the result might well be a slight reddish hue to not-quite-white areas.

 

I think I read about the CCD issue in a coolpix review on http://www.dpreview.com/ -- it might be worth checking out. You'll also be able to find out the make of the CCD in your camera there.

I suspect the purple highlights around bright white areas are due to chromatic aberration in the lens itself. My Canon Powershot G1 suffers from the same problem.