Dude! Those are great shots... does that mean you were camping in Yosemite? It looks amazing... and definitively does look like a painting... I assume that's dude to the aperature being open for so long.
We might be camping in the Grand Canyon in a month, I'm looking to get a Canon 6D. Is there anything else I'd need to try and take shots like this... I'll be taking a bendy tripod too.
Thanks man! And yeah, did a backpacking trip for 5 days through there. Saw like 5 people total until the last day when we went to the popular parts and saw thousands of people.
The 6d is a great camera to have, cheap for the quality it has and basically just as good as most of the other cameras out there for pictures. I bought a Rokinon 24mm f1.4 off ebay for around 300 and it's perfect for astrophotography. It is a total manual lens, so it takes some practice with manual focus etc but definitely a great buy if you don't have extra spending money.