Very nice! At first I felt it had too much horizontal symmetry for my taste and I wanted to crop off the bottom third of the water. When I did though I missed that wonderful expanse of water in the foreground that gives the city room to breathe. Now I wonder what it would look like with a bit more foreground to set an even grander stage. Very well done!
Thanks! That's the same thought process I had when I was framing the picture. I first started with 70mm of the 70-200/4 zoom (effectively 112mm), which was just about enough not to cut off antennas on the tallest buildings, but it felt crammed already in the viewfinder. So I switched to 17-55/2.8 zoom at 55mm and it gave it its "breathing space." I also tried cutingt off the lower third in post, but didn't ultimately, for the same reason.
One thing with panoramas' symmetry in general: putting the horizon in the middle is a good starting point if one wants to avoid geometric distortion of the verticals in the image. Also, not sure how tilting up and down would work while rotating the camera for 11 vertical shots. I didn't use any sophisticated pano device, just a simple ball head.
