Just a regular tripod head, and relied on Hugin to manage the stitching. Luckily didn’t have anything in the near-field to cause nasty parallax errors, so it worked out ok in the end. That’s actually my wife and daughter at 12:00… 
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Had no ideal you lived in LA Pat; I live in MA. lol
Maybe one day, if I ever find myself in Mobile, I’ll try to look you up. Nice Mini Planet/Micro World. too.
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MA! One behind LA (alphabetically)! 
Whereabouts are you? I’ll actually be up in Providence, RI in November.
If you’re ever down in the South, drop me a line!
Prattville (near Montgomery).
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Hah! You shouldn’t have mentioned you were so close, now I know who to bug when we try to hold a photo/imaging workshop down here on the gulf coast…
Only if you pay for the gas and lunch (again, in between jobs right now; broke I am). lolol
Didn’t know you had workshops; sounds fun. I’m still just an amateur. Not sure if anyone at RetouchPRO contacted you yet, but I told Doug about you since he wanted to know folks who were experts in GIMP. Maybe he will contact you for an online workshop which he has at RetouchPRO often. 
That’s a really cool effect. I’ve played with it a while ago myself using hugin and gimp. I hope you don’t mind me posting some of my results:
NEX6_0002_3121-3139 by Miran Amon, on Flickr
NEX6_0002_3291-3309 by Miran Amon, on Flickr
NEX6_0002_3777-3800 by Miran Amon, on Flickr
Last one is even handheld.
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These are wonderful, thank you for sharing them!
Did you use a pano-head on a tripod to shoot the first two? I recently hacked one together from two pieces of aluminum bar, and it really made things easier in post. It wasn’t even that accurate. It did make capturing a lot faster and easier too, though. I could easily take my time rotating around the (almost?) nodal point of the lens. Here’s one I did using the contraption for the first time:
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That one is awesome! I saw it on flickr already.
I don’t have a pano head, just a normal ball head. Yes, I’m sure using proper equipment must make your life much easier in post. My first example was a total pain to fix the stitching errors with all those tiles on the ground and you can see if you look close I eventually gave up and left a few weird and unconnected edges.
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This is almost my entire little planet experience in one sentence… 
USS Alabama, I presume?
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Yes, it sure is (Hull BB-60)! She’s a quaint old ship…
Mind if I link the picture in /r/WarshipPorn (yes, there is such a subreddit)?
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Not even a little bit. Heck, if you’re interested in warship images, I’ll grab more when I’m out crawling around on something modern… 
There’s also this view (same ship):
I personally like the previous one better, but now there’s options…
Posted both. Now let’s see if I break my link karma record with any of these
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I’ve been shooting panoramas for years, I’ll be doing a workshop on that some day, if you have any questions feel free to ask, but please write my @name so I don’t need to read the whole conversation ;]
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@Morgan_Hardwood may even be doing a workshop in London for PIXLS/LGM in the spring, right? Yeah? Aren’t you?
Si senor. Post must be at least 20 characters. But quality not quantity, eh?
Oh, little planets. I love them. Here are two I made some time ago:
I don’t know why the Images don’t work, but here are the links to my blog:
(edited by Pat David to troubleshoot something)
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