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The Very High Dynamic Range VR panoramic sequence is the technic which I would like to represent myself as an athlete and photo-artist at once.
The sequence - the day-part of the spherical panorama - was shot with help of my friend Vitaliy Bekker. He shot the 1/3 part of the pano while I was performing this amplitude trick, which calls fs720 (or front seven).
And the next night we came back with a tripod to exactly same place and made a spherical panorama with the view to night snowpark. For this reason we had to spend a night on a glacier of mt. Elbrus on approximately 4000 height. The sky was absolutely clear and we got a chance to capture the rainbow of Milky Way.
After it was a challenge for me to stitch and mix the day and night views to make this image. So dynamic range appears to be very high! (day shots were a 1/1600, and night's were 30sec, try to count how mane exposure stops here)).
and here is the night view which was used to built this VHDR
more pics available at www.ivvi.name
Just in case you mistakenly heard that it was all ice and snow in Russia, take a peek at the Big Bikini Exposition. This is right on the river Moskva in Moscow!Moscow has been the capital of Russia for almost its entire history. The exception is during the period of the Russian Empire, which lasted from 1721 until the Russian Revolution 1917. For these two centuries the capital was St. Petersburg. The Russian Empire was the second largest contiguous Empire in world memory; only the Mongol Empire had been greater.Check out what's happening north of Mongolia these days, in ChitaAlthough you may not have heard of Sochi, on the Black Sea, they're building up quickly and hope to host the 2014 Olympics.Other periods of Russian history include the Tsardom of Russia, from Ivan IV to Peter the Great, and the Grand Duchy (14th-16th centuries).The earliest period of Russian history was ruled by the Novgorod Republic and Kievan Rus, which was the first Russian state dating back to 800AD in Kiev.Modern Russia remains one of the world's superpowers. They launched the earth's second satellite, called Sputnik 1, and were the first country to put a human being into orbit around earth. (The first one is called the Moon.)After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia became a federal republic of 83 states.Text by Steve Smith.
