It features seven-day forecasts and reports for over two million locations worldwide. If you want to know whether to bother venturing out for a shoot or not WeatherPro is the way to find out. TPE takes the guess work out of working out where the sun will be and hence how shadows will fall allowing you to have a good idea of what angle you need to shoot from. Does not require network connection for rise/set time, azimuths and sun/moon position.Key celestial events for the year, including moon phases, solstices, equinoxes.Save any location you want – no fixed lists.Shadow lengths displayed to scale on map.

Compass display built-in for scouting in the field (on compatible devices).Movable map pins – drag and drop the pin exactly where you need it.Graphical display on a wide selection of map types.Times of civil, nautical and astronomical twilight.Time and direction of sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset.It's a fantastic app and I use it all the time, even for planning trips months in advance as it helps me to work out where to go on which day to get the best light. The Photographer’s Ephemeris (TPE) helps you plan outdoor photography shoots in natural light, particularly landscape and urban scenes.Īt it's core is a map-centric sun and moon calculator allowing you to visualize how the light will fall on the land, day or night, for any location on earth. I use these apps all the time and find them invaluable for saving time and getting things right, so I thought I'd share them with you. Now, we all know that modern smart phones capture pretty good images but the apps listed below are not camera apps, they are utilities that will help you plan and execute your shoot using a “proper” camera. Nowadays you don't have to memorize quite so much because invariably “there's an app for that”. The more you knew of the equations and rules the less luck was involved but even if you knew it all you could still have your shoot ruined by unforeseen weather conditions.īut the world moves on and from the moment that Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in 2007 photographers have been able to be just a little lazier. Once upon a time photography was in large part about remembering complicated rules and equations and a fair amount of luck.

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