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I know there are multiple "golden hour calculators" online for finding ideal morning/evening light for shooting. But I swear I've seen this other tool, or else I just made it up in my mind and somebody should totally make it happen. Is there a way to figure out which direction the sun will be shining from at a particular location at a specific date and time? Like, for scheduling a portrait, knowing where there will be sun and where there will be shadows. Or for planning a particular architecture or landscape shot. In my potentially made-up memory, I think something like this was overlaid on a Google map. Help? Are there just too many variables at play here? e: I'm aware that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west but I was hoping for something more... technical.
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Are you looking for this: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-photographers-ephemeris/id366195670?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6 Or a cheaper tool that does the same thing? e: Apparently it's free on PC/Mac, if you want to try out the desktop one and don't need a mobile solution. http://photoephemeris.com/
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Dec 14, 2011 19:08
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If you've got an Android phone, there's this one too: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ratana.sunsurveyor&feature=apps_topselling_paid
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Dec 14, 2011 19:11
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And here I thought I was doing okay assuming the sun would be coming from the southeast in the morning, southwest in the evening. 
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Dec 14, 2011 19:30
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xzzy posted:And here I thought I was doing okay assuming the sun would be coming from the southeast in the morning, southwest in the evening. I think it's a pretty good approximation, but people who scout locations ahead of time and plan things meticulously probably want to know exactly what their time slots are for specific shots.
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Dec 14, 2011 19:35
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William T. Hornaday posted:If you've got an Android phone, there's this one too: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ratana.sunsurveyor&feature=apps_topselling_paid I just picked this up. Seems to be pretty drat useful although so far I've only just played with the AR camera and map features but it lays everything out pretty simply. Thanks for the heads up!
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Dec 14, 2011 19:36
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I use Sundroid on my Android phone.
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Sometimes, you should work for free. I have a friend who is a single mom, trying to move out of the house she is forced to share with her cheating ex-husband. To save money on Christmas gifts, she wanted to use portraits of her three-year-old as gifts. She is dating a single father whose ex-wife burned all of his photos of his four-year old. quote:You truly did such an amazing job. I have tears in my eyes! I cannot thank you enough for being kind enough to do that for us. Sometimes, that's all the payment I need. Happy holidays, Dorkroom.
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Dec 14, 2011 19:49
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I really like this image, mostly because it's hard to find the real subject at first. And it's different than most photos of the same subject. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/12/homelessness_around_the_world.html#photo8 Jessica met a drug dealer and that got her in the door of a drug den, she documented it. http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/12/jessica-dimmock-dove-headlong-into.html I also would really like the opportunity to be on the "inside" like she was. Would you guys do it if you got the chance?
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Santa is strapped posted:I really like this image, mostly because it's hard to find the real subject at first. And it's different than most photos of the same subject. A few weeks ago I was walking down the street, and saw a cop step over a homeless guy sleeping on a subway grate for the warmth. Hell of a day to forget to carry a camera  quote:Jessica met a drug dealer and that got her in the door of a drug den, she documented it. There's a similar story in freakonomics, where a sociology student has a chance meeting with a drug dealer and gets let into the inner sanctum. Turns out this dealer (former accounting student) kept meticulous books, and this sociologist discovered that while the average street dealer makes less than minimum wage, something like $3.00/hour, while the lieutenants and higher-ups make the crazy Scarface money.
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Dec 14, 2011 20:33
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Rated PG-34 posted:Who shot this: Goddamn, that's fantastic.
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Dec 14, 2011 20:34
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Shmoogy posted:e: Apparently it's free on PC/Mac, if you want to try out the desktop one and don't need a mobile solution. This looks to be what I was thinking about, thanks!
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Shmoogy posted:e: Apparently it's free on PC/Mac, if you want to try out the desktop one and don't need a mobile solution. Has anyone here read/bought that "Understanding Light" book that these guys have available? Or any of his books, really. I can't find any reviews for his stuff.
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Dec 14, 2011 21:00
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For the guy wondering about the sun, there are a few highly technical, advanced, and expensive programs that architects and planners use. I think the projects are called sun studies, I don't know the software name.
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red19fire posted:A few weeks ago I was walking down the street, and saw a cop step over a homeless guy sleeping on a subway grate for the warmth. Hell of a day to forget to carry a camera It really is awful that homelessness exists and that some people don't have the basic necessities of life, but if every person that passed a homeless person stopped to...what? talk? give them money? no one would get anywhere. Not to mention that giving a street person money is the wrong way to go about battling homelessness. I donate generously to various local and international homeless shelters/poverty fighting organizations and I don't typically stop to talk to homeless people just like I don't stop to talk to middle/upper class people sitting on a bench. I just don't understand what these pictures are trying to say. Yes, homelessness exists and we should do something about it, but you can't acknowledge every single person you walk by in a day, homeless or not. That being said, someone actually stepping over someone lying on the ground is pretty terrible, cop or not. My post is more directed to all those people that take generic "everyone is walking around this homeless person and ignoring him" shots.
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CarrotFlowers posted:That being said, someone actually stepping over someone lying on the ground is pretty terrible, cop or not. My post is more directed to all those people that take generic "everyone is walking around this homeless person and ignoring him" shots. To me, they just seem like a newbie photographer thing. You know, like how everyone has taken a picture of a window on a rainy day with a bunch of bokeh in the background. Homeless people are baby's first social commentary.
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While we're [kinda] on the subject, are there any other helpful photography tool apps (i.e., something that doesn't revolve around the phone's camera and/or gimmicky filters) out there that people recommend?
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William T. Hornaday posted:While we're [kinda] on the subject, are there any other helpful photography tool apps (i.e., something that doesn't revolve around the phone's camera and/or gimmicky filters) out there that people recommend? I think leafsnap is pretty cool when it works. Jotly just came out. Leafsnap is an iphone app for identifying types of plants based on pictures of their leaves on white backgrounds. Jotly lets you take pictures of things and then rate them. There's some kind of sharing network and you can upload them to facebook. I think it's pretty funny to take a picture of a tree and give it a D with the description "That tree is completely the wrong colour."
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StarWalk is pretty awesome if you want to do night photography involving the stars. I'm sure there's an Android equivalent. SkyView is a good web based version for planning night photography.. it lets you set your global coordinates and pick a time/date so you can figure out what will be visible: http://www.skyviewcafe.com/skyview.php
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Santa is strapped posted:
Fantastic. Added to my wish list, thanks.
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xzzy posted:http://www.skyviewcafe.com/skyview.php Very cool, thanks! I've been using the Heavens Above Android app (same name in the market, it's free. I think there's an iOS version too) to find out when satellites/iridium flares are visible. It's quite accurate and helped me score a nice ISS trail last night, just need to find some sort of interesting foreground next time:  Also Google Sky Map is useful for locating planets/constellations and such.
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DJExile posted:One trillion frames per second I was slightly disappointed to learn it uses stroboscopic techniques to reach the trillion frame per second mark.
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BobTheCow posted:e: I'm aware that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west but I was hoping for something more... technical. http://astro.unl.edu/naap/motion3/animations/sunmotions.html William T. Hornaday posted:While we're [kinda] on the subject, are there any other helpful photography tool apps (i.e., something that doesn't revolve around the phone's camera and/or gimmicky filters) out there that people recommend? http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/calc.htm A few months ago I was going to condense that site and more into a photo app, but apparently you need a mac to write iphone apps and my computer can't handle virtual machines.
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dakana posted:I was slightly disappointed to learn it uses stroboscopic techniques to reach the trillion frame per second mark. I was too, and then I watched a pulse of laser light traveling through a bottle. drat that looked cool.
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TheLastManStanding posted:Motion of the Sun Simulater This is off topic, but an easy way to get around needing XCode, and needing to code in IOS is to build a mobile web page that functions as an app.
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Oh dear. 900 posts to catch up on in SAD and then there's everything else!
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Since not everybody reads the medium format thread, I thought I'd share this here. Behold how laughably huge the Mamiya RB67 (with 90mm f/3.5 lens) is:  And it doesn't even have a film back on it yet!
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Just got a task to photograph a client building here in Chicago (a client) so that we can show how large format advertising would appear as the train went by said building. I love being the resident photographer of our agency because it means I get to leave the office for random poo poo like this.
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Going to leave this here because it's an awesome idea: http://www.petapixel.com/2011/12/19/how-to-use-light-painting-to-photograph-a-person-on-fire/
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Martytoof posted:Going to leave this here because it's an awesome idea: Dammit, I did basically exactly that with a laser pointer just after I bought my first DSLR. Except I never made the connection that it looked like fire and it could be used to make an interesting photograph. 
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Create Deviant Art Dot Com effects IN-CAMERA!
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I'm back. Been drinking heavily for weeks. Hellacious beard. I hit a kangaroo so hard with my car it landed on the hood, blinked three times, closed it's eyes, and died. I can't hear out of my left ear because I ate a wheel of blue cheese. My fridge is full of Vodka and Guarana mixer cans. Also I quit my job, I'm leaving in February for THE WORLD. I'm going to hit Jakarta, through Indonesia/Singapore/Malaysia/Thailand, I'll see if I can get through Burma without getting pulled up and shot to death in a battered hiace van 30km from Hsipaw/India/Nepal/Tibet/China/Mongolia/Russia and then motherfuckin' down to Cape Town. I worked in this mine for a year without doing anything remotely fun and ended up with such a ridiculous amount of money, I gently rub my bank statements on my unemployed friend's cheap possessions. Here's my D3s:  It got hit by a car. It's still painful. I couldn't find the broken poo poo thread so I threw it in here. I think I'll buy the D800 if it really is going to have 36mp. That'll be neat to gently caress around with.
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Why does your camera look like its made of Playdoh?
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Helmacron you never fail to leave me speechless.
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HPL posted:Why does your camera look like its made of Playdoh? That would be the super fine dust particles getting into the pores of the rubber/plastic. Maybe.
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Helmacron posted:Here's my D3s: Congrats, you finally have a useful digital SLR.
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Helmacron posted:I'm back. Been drinking heavily for weeks. Hellacious beard. I hit a kangaroo so hard with my car it landed on the hood, blinked three times, closed it's eyes, and died. I can't hear out of my left ear because I ate a wheel of blue cheese. My fridge is full of Vodka and Guarana mixer cans. Also I quit my job, I'm leaving in February for THE WORLD. I'm going to hit Jakarta, through Indonesia/Singapore/Malaysia/Thailand, I'll see if I can get through Burma without getting pulled up and shot to death in a battered hiace van 30km from Hsipaw/India/Nepal/Tibet/China/Mongolia/Russia and then motherfuckin' down to Cape Town. I worked in this mine for a year without doing anything remotely fun and ended up with such a ridiculous amount of money, I gently rub my bank statements on my unemployed friend's cheap possessions. I have to believe you are some sort of fictional character. At least I hope you are, that is really lovely of you. I can't deny that you're entertaining. In fact you are my fave poster.
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The camera looks like it took the car abuse rather well, really. At least the frame did. I'm sure the electronics got liquefied.
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