This morning I did a similar drone shot as this one just to see what the view from high above my driveway would look like. I liked it, so I decided to shoot the same shot at sunset.
For the sunset shot I adjusted the camera to a higher angle to get more of the sky, which resulted in cutting the quaint New England church out of the picture (it was in the bottom left part of this morning’s photograph).
I flew the drone to 120 meters (the maximum altitude allowed by the FAA) and started taking pictures. The video image on my control screen went blank just minutes before sunset. I could still control the drone, but only by directly seeing it, which was hard to do since it was so high and back a bit from being directly overhead. I managed to get it back down quickly and fix the problem (turn everything off and then turn everything back on is the limit of my technology-fix tricks, but it frequently works.) I had the drone back up in time to capture several more images.
If the politics of our time is stressing you out, as it does me, I recommend you get a drone. Flying a drone and taking photographs from a new perspective is so much fun you will, at least temporarily, forget about the problems we are having.
Monte