I haven't had the chance to get out and take sunset photos in a very long time. Over Labor Day weekend, we were traveling and saw this amazing sunset happening before our eyes. Wanting to find a nice location to stop and photograph the sunset was going to be tricky. Luckily we were in hay country and a lightly traveled dirt road lead us to this location. The area wasn't far off the road so I had time to pull over before the sun had completely set and the pinks of the sun's rays had not completely dissolved. Having my main camera packed away for the trip, I pulled out the Canon EOS M and not wanting to fuss too much with the settings, snapped a quick picture for reference. I then used those settings in Manual Mode and snapped about 33 vertical shots back and forth across the hayfield. I then used Lightroom to adjust the photos and stitched them in Photoshop. This first photo is the full 33 shot Panorama.
Seeing as that I took the photos in almost a full 180 degrees, the area in front of me was a tad too bent for my taste. I had to significantly crop and attempt to straighten it as best I could. So I decided to cut the stitched file down to 17 shots. This dramatically straightened the flowers in the ditch and made the photo much more appealing.
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