River Tummel

Great Day of work and Knocked off slightly early. Well Lets re-phrase that, I never ever get to knock off, but we left at lunch today and started heading up north, spotted some fantastic views of the River Tummel. However because of road works I could not get the shot I wanted.

However this is still a cracking shot, A Lot of noise in the originals though, I've found this quite a few times with my 17-85 Lense, whenever I try and take panoramas like this particularly when trying to balance the exposure and avoid a blown out sky. Think I may need to buy photoshop and start using HDR Images, any other tips?