Archived News • AirPano.comInterview in the Photographer30-06-2011 In May edition of the Photographer magazine (05/2011) appeared big 20-page article about AirPano project. The article represents an interview between Oleg Gaponyuk and the chief editor of the magazine Evgeny Zubenko where Oleg tells about the history of his project, photography techniques in use and shares his knowledge in shooting as well as the future plans. Our photo of Jesus Christ Statue on the top of Corcovado Mount in Rio de Janeiro is on the cover of the magazine. And the virtual tour over Rio can be viewed right here.
The Photomasterskaya: Feature Story by Sergey Semenov23-06-2011 In July edition of the Photomasterskaya Magazine (N74, 2011), Expert section, the article about AirPano project along with a feature story by Sergey Semenov were published. His feature story is dedicated to the planet stitching methods from plain projections of spherical panoramas in Photoshop.
Master-Class of Sergey Semenov15-06-2011 On 29-th of June at 7 p.m. in the exhibition hall of the Center of Development and Entrepreneurship of Moscow Eastern Autonomous District (Srednyaya Pervomayskaya st. 3, floor 3) will take part a Master-Class of the leading photographer and stitch&processing master of AirPano.ru - Sergey Semenov. The master-class is devoted to the basic techniques of Art Landscape Photography and special details of panoramas' shooting beginning with the basic principles, correct choice of proper equipment (tripod, panoramic head and objectives) as well as camera's adjustments and ending with conversion of files, stitching and processing of panoramas. Also, the difficult cases will be discussed: shooting when camera is out of the window or roof, 360?-shooting, HDR panoramas shooting, shooting of spheres, gig-panoramas, shooting under fast-changing conditions and in trips as well as aerial photo shooting of panoramas and spheres. The Entrance Is Free To attend the master-class your personal information such as your first and last names as well as tel. number and e-mail address is needed to be sent to konkurs@photovao.ru or karpovaev@crp-vao.ru.
Publication in the Metro11-06-2011 There was a publication (08.06.2011) in the Metro newspaper about our virtual tour in the sky of St. Petersburg. This shooting became one of the longest and most complicated but simultaneously one of the most popular creative works between our viewers. FYI: the Metro newspaper is the most read daily newspaper in Russia. We Moved to New Server09-06-2011 Today our server has moved to Germany for its permanent location there because Russian hosting hasn't got an ability to deal with the increased number of our site's visitors. We hope that the times of "Service Temporary Unavailable" page have already passed. If you face any trouble in the functioning of our site, please, don't hesitate to contact us! This will help us to improve its work in future. Grimsvotn volcano crater02-06-2011 Recently Dima had a helicopter flight over the half of Iceland but the volcano was covered with clouds and he wasn't able to shoot. This time he was able to rich the Grimsvotn volcano crater by the car and on foot. So, read the second part of the story from Dmitry Moiseenko.
Volcanoes Don’t Give Up Easily...28-05-2011 In spite of the active stage of the volcano's eruption has already finished and there is only a stream of 100 meters height left from 20 km steam and ashes jet, we, however, decided to fly till the volcano as we were able to reach Iceland. Below you can find D. Moiseenko's story about the flight.
The flight to Grimsvotn volcano28-05-2011 When on the 24-th of May I was informed that I urgently had to leave for Iceland and shoot the Grímsvötn volcano which had begun its eruption a couple of days before, it seemed to me that such lucky chance happened once in the lifetime... Read more ››Icelandic Volcano Grimsvotn Became Faster Than AirPano's Team25-05-2011 On Sunday, May 22, in Iceland the eruption of the Grímsvötn began. The height of a smoke and ashes cloud was up to 20 km. On Tuesday when we decided to send Dmitry Moiseenko for the shooting the height of the ashes cloud became 5 km. On Wednesday, in the morning, Dima left Moscow but the cloud went down to 2 km. And when DIma landed in Reykjavik the low-down volcano became extinct :) Frankly speaking, last year another volcano named Eyjafjatlajökudl (the name rose from my memory) had almost finished its eruption too when we were close to its crater. So, we could only enjoy the steam clouds. On Hawaii red-hot lava stopped flowing onto the sea when our helicopter flew there. We left and next day the lava flow recommenced. Such kind of bad luck we have with volcanoes. :) Second Prize of the First National Photo-Awards "Best Photographer-2010"24-05-2011 Oleg Gaponyuk took the second prize of the First Opened National Photo-Awards "Best Photographer-2010" (Bestphotographer.ru) in category Architecture http://bestphotographer.ru/winners. Since the 26-th till the 29-th of May in the Center of Photography Behalf of the Lumiere Brothers the creative works of the winners will be exposed.
Triumph in the International Contest Epson International Pano Awards 201123-05-2011 AirPano took part in the international contest of panoramic photography Epson International Pano Awards 2011 http://www.thepanoawards.com/. Our team took the first and the second prizes in category Architecture as well as the third prize in category Spherical Panoramas with the total award amount about $8000. Besides, the creative work of Oleg Gaponyuk took the contest's Grand Prix and became the best work among the others.
Stas Sedov has become a member of AirPano.ru team19-05-2011 This winter Stas Sedov has become a member of AirPano.ru team. Stas is a pilot with a great practical experience as well as a constructor of flying radio controlled platforms for photo and video shooting. We met Stas in May last year and the result of our mutual cooperation was the shooting of our first spheres in Moscow. Stas is a head of Radio Controlled Models Department of AirPano. An elaboration of a computer-aided flying system for a spherical panoramas distance shooting, the shooting of aerial movie and TV-project scenes, a 360 video methods creation and the aerial photo shooting which supposes the use of professional equipment are in our plans. In short time we'll represent several interesting projects shot with the radio controlled model. Triumph in Our Nature Nomination21-04-2011 Oleg Gaponyuk (Olevka) became a winner in a prestigious contest of Runet which is Photosight Russian Awards 2010 in the nomination of Our Nature. Awards'10 with his creative work Goose necks. Photosight is the largest Internet resource in Russian segment devoted to author's art photography. The award ceremony held in Crocus Expo in the frameworks of Photoforum-2011 exhibition on April 16. World Seen by the Russians20-04-2011 It's couple of days before the opening of the second Moscow exhibition "World Seen by the Russians" www.MirGR.ru The open-air exhibition on Tverskoy Boulevard will take place from April 23, 2011 till June 30, 2011. AirPano team participants Oleg Gaponyuk, Mike Reyfman and Sergey Semenov will take part in this event. Here you can see the reportage from the last year exhibition right on your computer monitor.
Last October we shot in St. Petersburg01-04-2011 Last October we shot in St. Petersburg. Along with art photography one of the tasks was the training in creation in the air of ultra high resolution panoramas. Finally, our developments were successfully practically tested and in the air of St. Petersburg the panoramas of 18.000x9.000 resolution were shot. That, as we know, hasn't been realized by anybody in the world yet. In order the panorama's demonstration is good a very powerful computer is needed to view images made in such high resolution and, unfortunately, everybody hasn't got such kind of computer. Another alternative way is to show panoramas part by part when the computer downloads exactly the part which is being viewed by a spectator. This way is widely used in the Internet to demonstrate Giga-pixel panoramas shot from the Earth. At present time we are finishing processing the ultra high resolution panoramas shot over St. Petersburg and in the nearest time they will be exposed on the site. Golden Tortoise 5 Awards12-03-2011 Golden Tortoise 5 Awards held and the winners and laureates were chosen. Sergey Rumiantsev's work named Life in Ice became a prize winner in Life Harmony nomination. The winners of Golden Tortoise 5 contest can be seen here. Photographer Dima Moiseenko26-02-2011 Today our colleague and excellent photographer Dima Moiseenko takes off to the other end of the Earth, to Venezuela, for shooting Angel Fall - the highest waterfall in the world where water falls from the height of one thousand meters just changing into water spray at the bottom. Let's wish him fine weather and good luck! Interview and photos by Oleg Gaponyuk21-02-2011 In the "Digital Photo" magazine ?93 (January 2011), in the article about photo-safari titled Those Who Have Traveled Round Earth Three Times the interview and photos by Oleg Gaponyuk were published.
The spherical panoramas creating10-02-2011 The spherical panoramas creating in the sky supposes that a flying machine hovers in the air (as a rule, it is a helicopter or a radio-controlled model) and revolves on its axis. However, there were no helicopters on Maldives and for the first time in our practice we had to shoot a spherical panorama from a seaplane... Oh, that wasn't the easiest thing to make a pilot stop the seaplane in the air and rotate it J But we succeeded in doing it. The results of the shooting you can see here. Ice Land by Sergey Rumiantsev25-01-2011 In February edition of the Foto&Video magazine the article titled Ice Land by Sergey Rumiantsev was published. The article is devoted to our travel to Iceland.
All the AirPano's photographers became the finalists of Golden Tortoise 2010 contest19-01-2011
This year five works by Oleg Gaponyuk, Sergey Semenov and Sergey Rumiantsev reached the finals and ending exhibition of Golden Tortoise 2010 contest. The finalists' works will be exhibited from the 11-th till the 27-th of March 2011 in New Manège, Moscow city. Opening of Five Sides of the World, Landscape Photography Exhibition in the CHA24-12-2010 The authors are Dmitry Arkhipov and Oleg Gaponyuk. December 22 till January 9. On December 24, Friday, the grand opening of Five Sides of the World of Oleg Gaponyuk and Dmitry Arkhipov, landscape exhibitions, took place. The exhibition will be opened till January 9 in the Central House of Artists on Krymskiy Val. Here is the virtual tour from the grand opening . New Website www.AquaPano.ru20-12-2010
The sphere from the warm waters of Maldives opens the series of our underwater spherical panoramas... This is the first sphere, shot by us under water. Due to a new theme of our spherical panoramas we decided to make a separate site located on www.AquaPano.ru Sides of the World - Landscape Photography Exhibition07-12-2010 Hold in CHA from December 22 till January 9. The authors are Dmitry Arkhipov and Olefrom the grand opening g Gaponyuk
The photo-exhibition of Dmitry Arkhipov and Oleg Gaponyuk named Five Sides of the World will take place in hall 9 on the second floor of the Central House of Artists. The zest of the exhibition is, undoubtedly, a size of the exposing works. On the 2-meter canvases the landscapes are becoming alive and fully show us an amazing beauty of the nature . Address: CHA, Krymskiy Val 10. (Underground stations are Oktiabrskaya or Park Kultury). Open hours: daily from 11:00 till 20:00; it is closed on Mondays. Tickets' price is 80-200 rubles, tel.: (499) 238-9634, exhibition coordinator is Anastasia Fedina (916) 160-2240 Invitation: Dear Friends, we invite all of you to visit the grand opening of the exhibition, which will hold on December 24 at 18:00. On December 24 from 16:00 you can visit the exhibition free, having printed our invitation. In November we shot on Maldives, Mauritius, in Bangkok, Sidney and on the South-West of the USA.19-11-2010 In November we shot on Maldives, Mauritius, in Bangkok, Sidney and on the South-West of the USA. Besides, we mastered an underwater panoramic shooting and its results will be represented on the site very soon. We have tried to shoot Moscow for a long time10-11-2010 We have tried to shoot Moscow for a long time, but we never succeeded in shooting the city we live in, thought we did our best. The case is the flights over Moscow are forbidden except those of Russian Federation Ministry of Civil Defense and Emergency Response and Russian police. Taking in consideration these administrative restrictions we applied our creativity and resolved this problem by the following: 1) First, we made a virtual tour over the interchanges of Moscow Encircling Highway (MEH). Publication of Oleg Gaponyuk's05-10-2010 In October edition of the National Geographic Russia under the heading Photomaster the publication of Oleg Gaponyuk's works and a short article about AirPano.ru appeared.
Our helicopter shooting in St. Petersburg has been held01-10-2010 Our helicopter shooting in St. Petersburg has been held. The sun was shining for 2 days and we could arrive from Moscow to shoot. After that the weather became bad again. Now the files are passing through the military legalization procedure and soon we'll able to show the shots on the site. We realized test technical shooting from a helicopter in St. Petersburg08-09-2010 We realized test technical shooting from a helicopter in St. Petersburg we were preparing for almost a year. We flew by a huge helicopter Mi-8. We tried to realize this shooting just in August when had come in St. Petersburg, but we were not lucky in weather: it was raining and we just measured the helicopter with a tape measure J Then the shooting was successful and now we are planning to make a virtual tour over the city on the Neva River if we are lucky. We are grateful to the Aeroecology Company for the flight organization. World Seen by the Russians01-08-2010 After Moscow and St. Petersburg the open-air exhibition «World Seen by the Russians» , in which AirPano.ru represented by Oleg Gaponyuk takes part, is moving to Veliky Novgorod, in the Kremlin. It will last from August 3, 2010 till August 23, 2010. Welcome!
There is a new panorama over the Statue of Liberty Unfortunately22-07-2010 There is a new panorama over the Statue of Liberty Unfortunately, the pilot couldn’t go closer though before the start had promised to go 100 meters close to the statue. In this case we would see the tourists walking inside the crown on head of the Liberty. We took part in World Wide Panorama in Forgotten Places contest01-07-2010 We took part in World Wide Panorama in Forgotten Places contest.
In 2008 I decided to visit New Zealand20-06-2010 In 2008 I decided to visit New Zealand for a couple of weeks to be sure that The Lord of the Rings was really shot there :) The way to New Zealand was very long and took more than 24 hours, and I had to change a plane twice: in Dubai and in Sidney. On my way back I decided to stay for a night in Sidney, because it is one of the most beautiful cities of the planet, and this visit didn’t require getting Australian visa. In the morning before leaving for the airport I found the contacts of a helicopter operator in a phone directory and shot several panoramas in the harbour near the world-known Opera House. It was two years ago but only now we have got time to work with the materials of those photo-session. That time we still couldn't shoot the high resolution spheres that is why Sidney shooting is represented in its usual quality. Had a look to calendar...09-06-2010 Had a look to calendar, we understood that the World Cup Football Championship will begin in several days. We thought that it would be great to represent on the site something pro-football as a sign of such an interesting event. In the archive the SPHERE which had been shot in Cape Town in the beginning of 2010 was found. It was shot right over the Green Point Football Stadium which was being built that time and it is devoted to the World Cup Football Championship. There are still bulldozers on the project site in the sphere, but now the stadium is completely ready and on June, 11 at 20:30 it will be the match between the football teams of Uruguay and France on it. Open-air exhibition "World Seen by the Russians"05-06-2010 When the demonstration in Moscow is over, the open-air exhibition «World Seen by the Russians» , in which AirPano.ru represented by Oleg Gaponyuk takes part, will go on in the Alexander Garden (near the Russian Admiralty) in Saint Petersburg from June 11, 2010 till June 30, 2010. Welcome! Five second05-06-2010 Five second.
PhotoDelo magazine01-06-2010 In the May edition of the PhotoDelo magazine there was our article Planet Earth devoted to AirPano.ru and panoramic photography.
Moscow from Bird’s Eye View27-05-2010 Last week in Moscow sky we shot several high resolution spherical panoramas. It was the start of “Moscow from Bird’s Eye View” Virtual Tour. Though even much time ago, still last year, we flew over all MEH (Moscow Encircling Highway), but we couldn’t fly over Moscow. The panoramas will be represented to be viewed soon. The «World seen by the Russians» open air exhibition17-05-2010 The «World seen by the Russians» open air exhibition, in which AirPano.ru from the part of Oleg Gaponyuk takes part and which are holding on Tverskoy Boulevard, will go on till the 1-st of June. Welcome! The entrance is free! Here you can see the reportage from this exhibition right on the screen of your monitor.
Virtual helicopter tour over New-Jerusalem monastery of Resurrection16-05-2010 The works on virtual helicopter tour over New-Jerusalem monastery of Resurrection in Istra have finished. New-Jerusalem monastery of Resurrection founded by Patriarch Nikon in year 1656 is one of the most complicated and interesting monuments of Russian spiritual culture. There are two panoramas available to view in our gallery. Virtual helicopter tour over The Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad12-05-2010 The works on virtual helicopter tour over The Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad have finished. The Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra (The Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra according to the church publications) is the largest Russian orthodox monastery. There are eight panoramas available to view in our gallery. Hard life of a sandwich inside a Zanussi oven10-05-2010 On the site there is a reportage about hard life of a sandwich inside a Zanussi oven. The Moscow Photoclub supported by the Photosafari Club presents the exhibition «World Seen by the Russians»30-04-2010 The Moscow Photoclub supported by the Photosafari Club presents the exhibition «World Seen by the Russians». This event will hold from April 20, 2010 till May 16, 2010 on Tverskoy Boulevard in Moscow under patronage of the Moscow City Government and supported by the Moscow City Department of Consumer Market and Services. The Airpano Team also represents its works there. A rare format of an open-air exhibition will allow thousands of Muscovites and Moscow visitors enjoying the art of photography. The best works of the last several years of travelling will be exhibited in the framework of the vernisage. Virtual tour of The Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra30-04-2010 We are about to finish our new virtual tour of The Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad, Russia. Last year we were awaiting for the fly permition for several months and eventually we were awarded with the beautiful autumn flights. We shot more than fifteen spheric panoramas. Eight of them will be presented on our site. This year to complete the tour we are going to add ground panoramas from The Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra and take a shots First aero-panorama of Victoria Falls!22-04-2010 We have finished the first aero-panorama of Victoria Falls located on Zambezi River between the countries of Zambia and Zimbabwe. Victoria falls is one of the most beautiful waterfall in the world. In January 2010 we could fly around waterfall for three days and more than twenty spherical panoramas have been shot. We are happy to present the first panorama. We had some Personal exhibition of Oleg Gaponyuk25-03-2010 From April 1 till April 30, 2011 there will be the personal exhibition of Oleg Gaponyuk named Sides of the World in the Central House of Journalists (Moscow, Nikitsky Boulevard, 8a). Except traditional landscape photography, the creative works shot in the sky over the unique places of our planet's five continents will be exposed on the exhibition. On the two-meter canvases the landscapes are becoming alive completely opening an amazing nature beauty. The exhibition's coordinator is Sergey Semenov. His tel. number: +7 (903) 215-1263 |
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