A brief overview video of my typical process.
I capture high dynamic range panoramas as a part of my general workflow, and typically only end up using them once. I keep them all, however, and am making most available for download here in the event that someone else might find them useful.
They aren't perfect, but they work fine for virtual environment lights and reflection maps in my experience.
If you use them for something, do me a solid and let me know, huh? I like seeing other people make cool shit.
Clicking any of the thumbnails below should prompt you to download the original image, which will be in the form of a 32-bit floating-point EXR file. (You probably don't wanna do this on a mobile device.)