Shooting Hand held Panoramas

Step 3 Handheld Friendly Panoramas

In addition to trying to minimize Parallax you can select your subject to make your life easier, as not all scenes will be handheld friendly. Parallax becomes an issue if there are complex interactions between objects that are close to the camera and objects that are further away. If a scene has little variation in how far the objects are from you, or there are very few foreground objects interacting with your background then the parallax issue will be minimized.
This doesn't mean to say the image has to be boring as Stone Henge would make a great handheld pano friendly subject.

So try to avoid scenes with a high degree of foreground objects that interact with the background objects. If you do have some key foreground interactions try to shoot them dead central to the photograph so they are not the main stitching areas.