Panorama: Sycamore Canyon Beach, California

At the California shoreline north of Los Angeles and away from most of the crowds. This panoramic picture was taken at Sycamore Canyon Beach in July, 2012. (Click to enlarge.)

Originally this was a 360° picture, combining twenty-three images. However, there are problems with the creation of that image, since the last few individual frames are almost face-on to the ocean. In the foreground of each of those frames are breaking surf — with significant differences between frames for the location of the surf line and water line. This makes the program freak out and not be able to line up adjacent frames very well at all.

What you see here is a result of taking that 360° panorama and trimming off the frames that are misaligned. The end result comes from nineteen or twenty images of 3888 x 2592 pixels (10 megapixels) taken with a Canon Rebel XTi DSLR, combined into an image of 22112 x 2542 pixels (56.2 megapixels), which covers approximately 300°.

Surf’s up, dude!