Andrew Varlamov: Monument to Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Andrei Sakharov Behind the scene : how this panorama was made September 23, 2005 was Friday. It was hard day, because my time for shoting was bounded by end of working day and start of family holiday (it was 23th aniversary of our wedding). Place for shoting was very familiar for me, because in childhood i lived not far from here. My father teached me to ride bycicle in 1972 at boulevard between Library of Academy of Sciences and State Optical Intstitute. In 1978-1981 one day per week i learned at building of Faculty of History, because Faculty of Military study was located here. In 1982-1985 I worked at Mendeleevskaya linia and every day crossed the square. The panorama is stitched from 3 raws of shots, each raw contains approximately 14 shots. Shutter time is -1 stop for bottom row and +1 stop for top row relatively center row (for center raw : ISO 200, F-stop 7.9, exposure time = 1/60 sec, WB=shadows). Realviz Stitcher 4.0.2 helped me to join these shots into spherical panorama, which was corrected and adjusted by means Pano2QTVR program (version 0.9.0) (author - Thomas Rauscher). I have got 2 days to understand how to add hotspots and to create movie, but GUI of the program was very friendly (for me :). Next event (best pano of 2005) I am going to use Pentax film camera and ZENITAR fisheye lens. Return