Traveller_Jeff wrote:
Every once in awhile, the sky is so clear that the 18 mile view from our window strikes me as unusually spectactular. Today was such a day. I took 10 overlapping images and processed them in Lightroom and then in Photoshop. For this shot, I've decided not to "rectangularize" it. I find it so much more beautiful to be left without that final cropping. The final jpg is 39.5meg, but I had to shrink it down to 7 for UHH. Your thoughts?
It looks like you took 2 rows x 5 columns. I would suggest 3 rows.
Handholding is fine, as long as you take enough images to cover the scene that you anticipate after straightening the horizon and cropping.
Using the camera in portrait mode with a longer focal length lens will give you less "pano-curve" where the center of the image is bigger and the edges curve away from the center.