…join me in the search for the simplicity found on the other side of complexity!
There are several good sunrise/sunset calculators available, some of which you can print out in table format. But The Photographer’s Ephemeris takes this a giant step forward. Tied to Google mapping it lets you pick any location on the globe.
As expected, it gives you sunrise/sunset, and moonrise/moonset, plus twilight times for each day (Civil, Nautical, and Astronomical for both a.m. and p.m.). But it does something FAR better, something I’ve never found before. It shows you lines that represent the angle at which the sun or moon will (more…)
I love to hike, and always carry a camera to record what the day brings. But a a single frame often doesn’t do justice to the view from a Montana mountainside. The magic is in the experience of taking in the entire vista, focusing, one by one, on myriad different details.
So I often shoot panoramas – comprised of somewhere between three and forty frames. Once home, I download the images and using either Photoshop’s Photomerge or Hugin, stitch them together. But it’s a MONSTER – often 30 MB or larger. I can reduce it to an e-mailable size, but then you can’t see those great details! So that means the image is held captive on my drive.
Watching a TED video last weekend, I bumped into a solution that frees my land-locked panoramas.
Photosynth.net lets you (more…)
