I have had an amazingly fun time shooting and building these Panoramic Photos. I use my Nikon D200 with a Nikkor 10.5mm lens and shoot 10 HDR, high dynamic range, photos of a scene. I have shot both interior and exterior locations. I have a special nodal point tripod head that rotates the camera directly over the center of the tripod. I also take a shot directly up and one directly down. I then take these shots and blend them in a program called Brackateer that makes the HDR file from my three RAW files of each angle. I then take the HDR files into a program called PTGui.

PtGui will align and build the equirectangular image and form it into a cylindrical image if you so desire. The software is very nice and I have yet to learn everything it is capable of. After building the panoramic image I then take the file into a program called Cubic Converter. It will take the cylindrical image and output 6 flat images that you can retouch in photoshop and then reassemble the cubed images back into a Quicktime 360 Panoramic movie file.