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!
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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.
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.
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