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Unzipping the Night Sky
Unzipping the Night Sky
Edwardho94


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Challenge: Zippers (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-70D
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM
Location: Mercantour National Park
Date: Sep 1, 2014
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 5000
Shutter: 30
Date Uploaded: Sep 4, 2014

 Spent a night at the Mercantour National Park for camping. I used Night Sky apps to locate the location of Milky Way and it was expected to show itself at 11pm . I was waiting the fog to go away at that time and at 1134pm i started to see the Milky Way. Gear up myself and shoot!


Statistics
Place: 46 out of 48
Avg (all users): 4.1974
Avg (commenters): 4.7500
Avg (participants): 4.1250
Avg (non-participants): 4.2500
Views since voting: 236
Views during voting: 164
Votes: 76
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0

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 09/20/2014 11:23:26 AM
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
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/13/2014 12:43:33 PM
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..
 09/10/2014 06:50:25 PM
"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.
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 09/09/2014 05:01:07 AM
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!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/08/2014 10:31:55 AM
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.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/08/2014 10:26:23 AM


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