Looks great Bill! It's amazing that you did this hand held!

Well done! Exellent scene ... You must have nerves of steel It's really clear and crisp for hand held.

I think that's very clever! It will be interesting to find out how to do away with the V next time..let us know!

EXCELLENT panorama..... a couple of suggestions:don't use a wide angle lens, do use a tripod, center the horizon (minimizes distortion), overlap all frames by at least 25% and shoot all frames with the same exposure i.e shoot manual with one setting not automatic (some frames will be underexposed some over but they will match). if you do all that and cs4 will stitch them perfectly. if you still have distortion you can use lens correction (filters/distort/lens correction).

TOO COOL

Excellent job, Bill, and looks like you got some good suggestions there!

Excellent panorama.

Great work!

Great camera work, Bill. Wide stance, elbows tucked close to the body, and breathe shallow method?

Wonderful work, Bill!!! After merging the photos, I further correct some of the barreling with the Warp tool. I know a tripod is better, but CS4 does wonders. I saw a tutorial a while back on this, and the photographer purposely did it hand-held to extoll the virtues of CS4. I agree, wide angle images are bad for stitching, because there's a lot of distortion from the lens already.

Yes several cures as Tim and moonrancher suggest for two, also look at Content Aware Scale Which can do some interesting things.. The sky blends in well and you did a good job Bill.

beautiful capture...well done..!!!

Awesome capture, Bill!

Oh I love to fish for striped bass! What fun it would be to try it here! Outstanding pano.

Excellent capture.Great view.Wonderful work.

An excellent capture and I rather like the V even if it isn't technically correct. Of course I had to count them.

Well done, V and all!

Considering the camera was hand held, I think you did a remarkable job in this stitch job, Bill. I'm glad that others were able to give you quality advice on eliminating the V distortion, because I'm not into that phase of panoramic shots.

I think Tim said it all, not that I'd have any clue as to how to fix it!! Zoom is awesome, really shows detail and all the people--great shot!!

Excellent panorama!!

Blimey mate! Bugger the V... I'm impressed!!!! I wouldn't dare try this, mainly cos' I haven't got CS4! Ha! I can't see the joins(as they say!). So, you've done a grand job. Really well done. As for dull weather, try adjusting, brightness or contrast. Maybe Saturation a bit. Might work... Does for me... Ha! Good one mate! Rob.

Pebble beach.. lol Fantastic shot !! :)

Well I was going to tell you to use content aaware scaling, but I see danny has got there first, other than the V which INHO does not matter and doesn't detract from the image, it a cracker.

Cool panorama.

Great shot and great pano Bill!

It's always nice when one of you asks for suggestions, because I get free photography lessons. I don't know the camera at all, but I do remember in the analog days that people spoke of getting the shoreline at mid level, if you're going to do a broad shot. But in those days, photographers allowed a lot more, and I personally have no problem with the V...to me, it's a dramatic arc. (I'm seeing like a painter...) In any case, I love the feel of the stones (hey, those are big grains of sand!), I love the semi-symmetry of the shot, I love the darker shore right against the water, and that dark sky is really moody; and the water bulges a bit upwards which, to me, is wonderfully expressive. I was on Montauk Point years ago, and it felt like the end of the world. I think you got that here. Nice stitching too, very seamless...

Wow ... great pano! I'm impressed. :)

oh I like this pano, Bill, and I do like the v in it too, cause it gives it a bit of action...smile