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The Kahanamoku Beach in Honolulu is partially enclosed by a pier made of large basalt rocks.
The end of the pier offers a unique viewpoint of the Kahanamoku Beach and the Saltwater Lagoon.
Lat: 21° 16' 49.275" N
Long: 158° 51' 22.455" W
Precision is: High. Pinpoints the exact spot.
Nikon Z30 + 7.5mm f/2.0, handheld, PTGui Pro 12.22
This was the most challenging handheld panorama ever. Usually taking a handheld panorama is done by carefully moving around, but with this uneven surface I had to climb to the next position while keeping the camera lens in a stationary position at the nodal point without slipping from the rocks and dropping the camera.
The first picture series was taken from a good position, but in all excitement, I had the wrong camera setting.
And one round takes a few minutes and with the rather strong winds the clouds shifted quite a bit.
Eventually I had it all perfect with a sufficient overlap between the pictures.
In PTGui, I set control points manually and optimized only for 'b' and shifting with no individual picture settings needed.
Shift correction was only minimal (<0.09%, 0.36%) and 'b' was almost zero. I used the mask feature to force the seam line around some non-matching parts.
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