This is a 4 shot panorama, taken from East Point in Biddeford Pool, Maine, looking up the coast past the Wood Island Light and well out to sea. It really must be viewed larger. Clicking on the image should open it to the width of your monitor.

And this is a closer view, at about 300mm equivalent field of view…as you can see there was a high wind and lots of moisture in the air, which limits the sharpness of the light at this distance. What you see beyond the light is Cape Elizabeth.

I am still experimenting with Panorama. I always forget that the sea is not still and any shot with waves is going to take some fixing. I had to go in with the clone tool in PhotoShop Elements 9 and do some creative wave adjustment…still, in a shot this large and expansive…most people will not notice. Since the level of the horizon in a shot this wide is critical, I did not use widest angle on the Canon’s zoom, which would have introduced some linier distortion in each shot. I find that normal lens (50mm or there abouts) stitches better when there is such an obvious horizon.

1) Canon SX20IS, four 62mm equivalent field of view shots, stitched in PSE 9’s Panorama tool using the Align Images setting. f4 @ 1/1000th @ ISO 80. 2) Canon SX20IS at 300mm equivalent field of view, f5 @ 1/800th @ ISO 80. Landscape Mode for both.

Both processed in Lightroom for intensity and clarity.