Secrets At Midnight
by rubytuesdai

Comment by SandyP:
Ooooooops. It was supposed to be outside. I'm so sorry! I bet you have heard tht a lot. It's a cool photo tho. Really conveys a mood.

Secrets At Midnight
by rubytuesdai

Comment by RonBeam:
Not a bad interpretation of the theme, but it would have been better if the picture were in focus.

Secrets At Midnight
by rubytuesdai

Comment by justine:
This was a good idea for the challenge, your composition is good, your light is good. Your focus is just too weak.

Secrets At Midnight
by rubytuesdai

Comment by krazy:
shot is blurry. tripod would have helped immensely.

Secrets At Midnight
by rubytuesdai

Comment by Zed Pobre:
Conceptually, this is an interesting shot. I like the idea of late night writing. Unfortunately, it doesn't convey any sense of possibly being outside (on cloth, it implies being found in a bedroom, the way that it is), which violates the challenge constraints. Also, focus is very soft (intentional? it works ont he pen, but not on the paper), and the blown highlights on the candle combine with the lens flare to really hurt the image. Colors are also a little off, seeming a bit too reddish to me. If this were advanced editing, I would have recommended blending multiple shots to get both the candle and the book. With basic, the most I can recommend is underexposing this, and then dumping contrast and boosting shadows to see if you could get the book back up. Correcting the flare probably requires buying a better lens. If you could have found a tree stump or porch chair to set this on, that might have helped with the "outside" aspect.

Secrets At Midnight
by rubytuesdai

Comment by Parker:
love the title

Secrets At Midnight
by rubytuesdai

Comment by Bear_Music:
Doesn't really FEEL like an outside shot, to me... In any event focus is too weak to do the image justice.

Overpowering
by rubytuesdai

Comment by risu81:
I agree this is a little overpowering for a minimalist theme.

Overpowering
by rubytuesdai

Comment by gattamarta:
sorry, I can't understand what "overpowering" refers to... the picture is nice, though the sky is full of stains (is that the effect of overpowering?)

Overpowering
by rubytuesdai

Comment by fifield:
the shot feels a little crooked, could maybe be fixed with a free transform