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The final view that Liz and I had of Iceland, at the end of our cruise to this unique and enigmatic island, was of the Eyjafjordur fjord as we sailed away from the northern town of Akureyri on the P&O liner Azura.
This was the prettiest time of our visit, with the sun actually shining on the snow capped mountains that plunged into the fjord while minky whales swam alongside the ship.
I spent all the time that we were sailing up the fjord on the upper deck of the ship, glued to my camera, taking shot after shot of the scenery as a new vista was revealed every few minutes.
I soon realised that the side of the fjord, being long and thin, would really need a panoramic image format to actually do the view justice, rather than just photographing portions of the lovely scenery as I had been.
Normally, when shooting images for a panoramic stitch I'll be very precise, with the camera mounted on a perfectly levelled tripod, but there was no chance of this working on a moving, rolling ship.
So I shot the dozen or so frames that went to make up this panorama handheld, using the line where the mountains met the sea as a datum for the middle of the frame.
Adobe Lightroom did a grand job of the stitch, although I did have to push and pull the final image around a bit using the 'free transform' function in Photoshop to get the horizon straight.
In the end I shot several panorama sequences as we sailed up and out of the Eyjafjordur fjord, in the hope that at least one would turn out alright, so I was really pleased to get this result that really shows off the beauty of the scene that we saw on that evening.
Filename - iceland akureyri panorama 02.jpg
Camera - Canon 6D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 67mm
Exposure - 1/20 sec @ f11, ISO100
Filters - 2 stop ND graduated used to balance exposure
Location - Eyjafjordur fjord at Akureyri, Iceland
This image - 1200x254px JPEG
Conversion - Adobe Lightroom and PhotoShop CC
Comments - Panoramic image made by stitching multiple exposures
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