Unzipping the Night Sky
by Edwardho94

Comment by snaffles:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

I can see where you got the idea, and I appreciate all the work that went into getting ready and setting up for it, and astrophotography is a skill unto itself. But for a it is a little bit of a stretch. This site is very literal; voters are looking for a zipper and asking them to 'see' a zipper in the Milky Way is a little much.
The composition is nice but there is the issue of camera shake and/or focus not set to infinity - it would have been better to increase your exposure time and shoot at infinity than limit yourself to f2.8 and 30 seconds - and lack of focus will always cost you.

Hope this critique has been useful, feel free to PM me with any questions.

All the best and keep on shooting!

Susan

Unzipping the Night Sky
by Edwardho94

Comment by Revecca:
Pretty picture although it'd be nicer if it had a sharper focus.. as far as fitting the challenge goes, I am not sure it does..

Unzipping the Night Sky
by Edwardho94

Comment by Lydia:
"Feature one or more zippers as the focal point in your photo."


I'm missing the zipper(s). But... I'm not voting anyway. If there is one, I can't wait to find it.

Motion Under the Blue Sky
by Edwardho94

Comment by Jules1x:
*Greetings from the Critique Club*

First off, welcome to DPC. It's great to see you getting active right away.

Compositionally, I love what you chose for the foreground. The rocks are interesting and the water lead my eye towards the back of the image. I was not as in love with the back area of the image. I liked the bridge, but the other buildings and details (flags) seemed to distract me a bit. I am also not sure that the large bush/tree sticking out on the right added much to your image. I wonder what a crop off that right side, or a crop off the bottom and right would have done?

Technically I think this is a good image. Your water is gorgeous, really nice. I like the colors in the water and rocks and greenery, but the blue of the sky seems a bit vibrant (but that could just be me). The softness of the clouds seemed to add a bit to the sky being off for me, but since that was a side effect of a longer exposure I'm not sure what an alternative might have been.

Overall this is a good image, I would have been interesting to see what other perspectives might have looked like had you moved the tripod around some. Keep up the good work. I look forward to seeing more of your images.

Julee

Unzipping the Night Sky
by Edwardho94

Comment by jgirl57:
I gave this a 7 because one, I love the sky night pictures like this, two, I can actually see a zipper in the sky.. very clever!

Unzipping the Night Sky
by Edwardho94

Comment by MadMan2k:
It does kind of look like a zipper, but it looks like either your lens wasn't set to infinity or you had some camera shake. If you're not already, try to use the 2-second self timer or a cable/wireless release for shots like this, and if your lens doesn't have a visible guide for focal point, every time you move or recompose shoot some test photos at the highest ISO and leave it on manual focus.

Unzipping the Night Sky
by Edwardho94

Comment by Art Roflmao:

Motion Under the Blue Sky
by Edwardho94

Comment by bmartuch:
The beauty of long exposures.

Motion Under the Blue Sky
by Edwardho94

Comment by Silent-Shooter:
This shot needs to be sharpened better to make it pop more. Have a look here for a free one to use in Photoshop:
//www.capturearth.com/products/view/web-sharpening-action

Motion Under the Blue Sky
by Edwardho94

Comment by Devinder:
i think the technique is well executed, but this particular slice, this orientation doesn't take full advantage. would like to see more experiments in the future