Panorama effect from wide angle

I took this picture of the centre of Durham using the 10mm setting of my Tamron 10-24mm Super wide angle zoom. Once I imported the picture into Lightroom I realised that the shot has more impact when cropped down to a panorama style image, cutting out a lot of the foreground which was just pavement. I’ve used this technique quite a few times to create a panorama style shot; I know it doesn’t have the full reach of a stitched panorama, but it’s still quite effective.

I used Lightroom to post-process, adjusting the colour balance , exposure and increase clarity a bit as well as applying the cropping.

• Pentax K5
• Tamron 10-24mm
• F/7.1
• 1/320
• iso200
• 10mm