Practice makes perfect.

Nice, but the background is disturbing.

@Artifakts: I used a neutral background (i.e. T-Shirt) first but it didn't add depth to the image. It looked like a strange, weird close-up with a blurry thumb out of nowhere so I switched shirts..

In fact (imo) it's the blue which is very intense and keep the attention out of the most important : the money and the finger.

I agrre with Arti here, the blue is the dominant color here, and does distract you. good attempt though!

different, but you may want to correct the white balance, it looks very yellow.

Yeah the yellow is actually due to the yellow lamp illuminating from the right Thought it'd give it a different look and feel

you are right, it does give it a different look, but it doesn't look right....imo.

clever.

for 5 bucks, they should have been..........

a bit more DOF would have been great.