underwater panoramas

This url has a an attempt at an underwater panorama:

http://www.lplizard.com/chrisg/png/pan.jpg

The text in the middle is from using a trial version of a panorama program.

The image size before I scaled it for the web was >6000 pixels wide.

Its not the most attractive subject matter or composition. ..I shot them idly late in a dive.

I'd be tempted to try it on a wreck sometime.

hi ´chris, nice try! how manyshots did you compose, if I may ask.

Did you use any assistance like a tripod, etc?

Its from 4 images. No tripod.

This one's actually a little more interesting:

http://www.lplizard.com/chrisg/png/panfan.jpg

It was stitched from 3 images shot "portrait" style.

Even though it is of a somewhat "normal" aspect ratio, I'm not sure I could have

exactlly reproduced it conventionally with the setup I had on this dive - with the strobe setup I had (just one on this dive), I think the central coral was too large to get close enough to evenly light and deal with the particulate matter in the water.