{"id":2285,"date":"2008-10-15T18:43:06","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T01:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/10\/15\/catalina-channel-180-view\/"},"modified":"2008-10-16T10:20:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T17:20:22","slug":"catalina-channel-180-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/10\/15\/catalina-channel-180-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalina Channel &#8211; 180&deg; View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a horrible three weeks on Wall Street and another demoralizing day today (especially for conservatives), I&#8217;m going to just say woooo saaaaah and divert my creativity to these nerdy panoramas. In the top image, on October 11th, I stood at Del Cerro Park near the top of San Pedro Hill on the Palos Verdes Peninsula and snapped eight separate images in sequence from left to right. I used the Canon Zoom Browser Photo Stitch utility to assemble this 180 degree view of the Catalina Channel on a nice clear day.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/catalina-channel-pan.jpg' title='Channel Panorama'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/catalina-channel-pan.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Channel Panorama' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second image is an experiment &#8211; The normal mode for panoramas is to center the horizon vertically in the image and pan the camera. I wanted to get a panorama of the coastline from Del Cerro and to get the foreground to blend into the picture as well. I am pretty pleased with the results I got. I took the series by trying to keep the horizon &#8216;horizontal&#8217; in the viewfinder. I took six such images going from left to right. I had to post-process the pictures using a parallel scan setting on the stitch tool to get this &#8216;fish-eye&#8217; sort of panoramic rendering. Both the foreground and the distance are rendered in perspective &#8211; just the effect I wanted to get.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/del-cerro-pan.jpg' title='Del Cerro Overlook'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/del-cerro-pan.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Del Cerro Overlook' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click on either of these images to view them in the image viewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a horrible three weeks on Wall Street and another demoralizing day today (especially for conservatives), I&#8217;m going to just say woooo saaaaah and divert my&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-panorama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}