This was a shot taken a few nights ago while I was trying to see the meteor shower. This is a single image shot in RAW with adjustments in LR and PS. I used a Yongnuo Flash to light up the cactus. (Shot one side, then ran and shot the other side during the long exposure.) All of my running and flashing piqued the interest of a grazing bull nearby who came and payed me a visit. Seeing the bulls eyes and horns in low light, after hearing him crash thru the brush, in the middle of a remote desert at 2AM, really gave me a good scare! CC is welcome as always.
This is a very powerful shot with a great looking sky. Your light on the grass looks great too. The cactus adds a very strong vertical element which is fab. The colour of the cactus seems rather blue, but it may be that colour, for all I know. Good job.
Thanks Ian! Good observation on the cactus. It is a little bluish-grey and I even played around with making it greener in PS. But it actually looked a little unnatural with green bumped up for some reason. In the end I just left it the natural bluish color.
instead of pushing the greens in the cactus try pushing the yellows or oranges a bit as I don't think it needs to be "greener" as much as it needs to be "warmer", maybe on the grass as well but it's the cactus that really stood out for me.
Amazing sky though.
Absolutely, Rob is spot on.
If somethiing is too blue it needs less blue which is just another way of saying more yellow, complimentary colours work that way. Too green, needs more magenta or less green, too red needs more cyan or less red.
Can't actually believe that this was taken with a 6d, and that you have such an amazing view of the night sky, not many places to get that kind of shot in the UK! Apologies for the lack of critique, I think Ian covered everything that I would have picked up on. Great shot though!
Actually the 6d is one of the best performing Canon bodies for low light and astro photography, really under-rated imho. I run a little camera store and will usually direct people to the 6d over the 5d if this is the sort of work they are doing.
I know it's good with low light, and I have one myself but still shocked that it gets such great detail, i need to get out somewhere remote and do some astro myself!