Sunny Day Done

As the sun sets over a farm field in rural Wisconsin, the sunflowers seem reluctant to call it a day.

We are blessed to have sunflowers growing in the field across the road from our yard. Yesterday the sunset was beautiful and I thought the combination of flowers and sky would make a great image.

I tried a new technique to create this panoramic image. The sky is so much brighter than the field, so I tried to a different exposure for the one shot of the field and a darker exposure for the three shots that make up the sky and then combined the four different frames into this panorama. There are some areas of the image that I’m not pleased with, but overall, I think it’s a winner.  I’ll need to work on refining the process to clean up some of the rough spots.

You can view a larger, more detailed version of this image by clicking on the photo.