The Photographer’s Ephemeris or PhotoPills
May 7, 2019 07:57:47 #
tomad wrote:
I tried both and found PhotoPills easier to learn and use.
Good. Every person is different.
May 7, 2019 08:43:52 #
I don’t have either, but landscape photographer David Johnston can't seem to say enough about Photopills.
May 7, 2019 10:52:34 #
OneShot1
Loc: Wichita, KS, USA
I use Photopills a lot. It's very powerful, but there is a learning curve. Good tutorials on Youtube, with a Swedish accent. The "Night AR" (augmented reality) is super useful. Turn it on and move the phone around and you can "see" where the Milky Way is located at any date/time. I use it on-site, before sunset to place camera and tripod for the composition I want. Then wait a few hours until it's dark and the MW is right there for the shot. I have even taken the scenery at dusk and overlayed it on the dark silhouettes (which shows how well the tripod was positioned via the AR).
May 7, 2019 13:55:47 #
I settled on Photopills several years ago. It has a function that overlays the sky (sun/moon/Milky way etc.) at any hour or day or year onto an image from the back camera allowing you to see the foreground against which the sky will play out. Using this function I have been able to position my camera to catch the vertical milky way with the galactic center perfectly framed by the foreground.
May 7, 2019 13:57:30 #
photogeneralist wrote:
I settled on Photopills several years ago. It has a function that overlays the sky (sun/moon/Milky way etc.) at any hour or day or year onto an image from the back camera allowing you to see the foreground against which the sky will play out. Using this function I have been able to plan days ahead and to position my camera to catch the vertical milky way with the galactic center perfectly framed by the foreground.
May 9, 2019 11:23:09 #
It seems that the Android version of TPE is not nearly as robust as the iOS version (which the developers admit when they state that it is accordingly priced lower). So my question is what app do members recommend for Android?
May 9, 2019 11:27:35 #
h_scott wrote:
It seems that the Android version of TPE is not nearly as robust as the iOS version (which the developers admit when they state that it is accordingly priced lower). So my question is what app do members recommend for Android?
Well, since I use the on-line version on my PC, I use the Android version on my cell. Seems fine for what I need.
May 9, 2019 12:06:19 #
PGHphoto
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
h_scott wrote:
It seems that the Android version of TPE is not nearly as robust as the iOS version (which the developers admit when they state that it is accordingly priced lower). So my question is what app do members recommend for Android?
Sounds like PlanIt does everything TPE does and I use it on an Android phone.
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