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Hi Zane,
I think there are two things that need to have been different with this shot.
1st, the sun should not be blown out like it is. Typically the eye goes to the brightest area in a scene, and in this case rather than the eye seeing a pano scene, it's seeing a blown out area in the sky. Shooting a scene where the brightness of the sun is dimmed by the clouds is a good way to deal with a bright sun. But in your case, the clouds were not thick enough. So you best bet, would have been to wait and shoot it just as the sun was dipping below the horizon. Besides dimming the sun for you, it would have given the extra benefit of having a sunstar.
2nd, the foreground is too dark. Shooting into scenes like this requires either an ND grad or layer masking to allow the ground to not turn to black. In a scene like this, it really needs detail in ground to help carry. With the sun that high in the sky, there is no way the ground was really that dark. It would have been lit up...
I hope those suggestions help, maybe you have some other shots when the sun was lower? Or you can try and use a layer mask for the ground layer, but unless you can correct that hot spot of a sun, it won't really matter.
Jim
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