i all,

can anyone guid me takig car pano shoot ?

I do have

Nikon D100
Sigma 8mm F4 FishEye
ManFrotto 303 SPH Pano-Head
ManFrotto 756B Tripod

Nut much different then any other pano.

Look for a place in the car where you have a good view on whatever you want on the picture.

Set up your tripod stable. And take pictures with timer. Otherwise your body weight will effect your tripod setup.

Just go out there and try.

Again: Good panos come from experience - Experience comes from bad panos.

Regards Markus

gr8 markus..

i have tested and output came good reasonable. needs practice on good car with good daylight.

thanks

Here's a pano of a Volkswagen Touareg I put together a few weeks ago.

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2107691

The lighting is the main concern, I would park the car in the shade or somewhere not is direct sunlight.  Otherwise you'll get huge differences in brightness from one image to the next.  The easiest place to set the tripod is to put one leg in each rear foot well, the put the third leg straight back resting on the rear seat.  You can try to keep the door directly behind the camera open to allow more light to come in. 

Another trouble spot is editting out the tripod.  I managed to do it, but it's pretty obvious on the rear seat. 

Let me know what you think of the pano? 

Interior car lighting is a good topic.

Here is a tip:

Take very large white bedding sheets and drape them over the outside of the windows.  This will block the view and also offer disbused lighting for the interior.

Take your 4 shots (or how many you need) and stitch them.

Then open your completed car interior panorama in Photoshop. 

Make a duplicate background

Deselect the original background so that you will not see it while erasing the windows

Erase carefully all the glass area (showing the white sheet).  The car interior windows now should be black holes.  Zoom in to 300 % and erase around the driver mirror and each side mirror and any other detailed area you need to keep.

Save the layered file as a .psd

Open another panorama say taken downtown with other cars on the street.

Now you should have 2 panoramas open- cars/street  and car interior. Both panoramas should be the same physical dimensions like 1500 x 3000 pixels.

With the Move Arrow Tool selected,  Mouse click the cars/street pano and mouse drag it across to the Car Interior pano.  This will place the cars/street pano on a new layer probably above the the car interior pano.

Drag the the cars/street pano layer below the car interior layer.  Now you should be able to SEE the Cars/street pano through the car windows all the way around.

You might need to do some window edge clean up.

Save it as a layered .psd file. 

Then Flatten the layered psd file and SAVE AS an uncompressed BMP file.

Renowned VR photogrpaher Mark Told in Zurich Switzerland showed us how to do this sometime in the past.  When you get to his page click on the same car.. different locations using the left side drop down menu that says "Wahlen Sie eine Panorama" he has the same car at a  golf course, downtown Zurich and other neat places.

Markus is exceptionally talented and a great photographer.

http://www.panoramas.ch/panoramas/navigator.aspx

Enjoy !

Dave