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As I had got up early (4am) to do my first proper panorama for my local photo club competition, I wasn't going to let a lot of rain and wind stop me
I have this printed and matted to about a meter wide (just looking for a suitable frame)

"Maroubra Winter"


needs to be looked at in a larger version here

I had made a pano bracket for taking portrait orientation shots but I had too much trouble getting the camera level in the dark on my ball head so this is a 5 shot hand held pano taken with the camera horizontal

WOW,

Absolutley fantastic Keith.
You must be happy with that printed. You may find it's not that expensive to get a custom frame made.

Cheers

Keith,

that is a very nice pano. The ocean baths, the dark stormy sky really suit the format. It looks very nicely put together, even with the movement of the waves.

Did you have to do much work in post processing in terms of the movement in the waves?

Great work for being handheld,

cheers,

André

Did you have to do much work in post processing in terms of the movement in the waves?

I am interested in that also, I have had trouble even with the split between two images with a tiny 2ft wave - nonetheless this is a very nice image - my hat goes off to you for getting up at 4am and having the commitment to get from Baulkham hills to marouba!

Well done on the handheld front also, the horizon looks spot on!

Keith, really impressive, love the dark clouds. Like the others, I wonder how you dealt with the waves?

Beautiful Image

Love the cold blue tones

Oh my goodness - that's amazing!! How on earth did you manage to get it so crisp in those conditions and doing it hand held?!

thanks for all the positive comments
I had to do a little editing on the 2 left joins (luck got the waves timed perfect on the 2 on the right)
I just used a soft clone to blend the waves up through the middle of the pool and use the rain to fix the horizon above there
the sea horizon above the rocks on the left had a bad match so I just clone some of the crashing waves over it to completely hide the level sea.
there was also a little cloning on the rocks at the bottom to make the join lines less obvious

the shots were ISO100 f4 22mm 1/4sec so the sharpness is due to part luck and slow breathing

very nice and moody - suits your style very much. I'm expecting to see an Audi R8 in front of that now