The Photographer’s Ephemeris – Updated
The Photographer’s Ephemeris (TPE) helps you plan outdoor photography shoots in natural light, particularly landscape and urban scenes. It’s a map-centric sun and moon calculator: see how the light will fall on the land, day or night, for any location on earth.
We often mention this app in our A Day In The Life interviews, it always throws up some great responses. If you’ve missed those, go here to read them.
TPE has been updated with iPhone 5 and IOS 6 support but there’s also a ton of other new features. Check out What’s New below. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app. If not, you can download it here. It retails for $8.99/£6.99/download.
What’s New?
– iPhone 5 and iOS 6 support
– Locations can be exported via email as a KML file
– Locations can be imported from KML or KMZ files (choose Open In… TPE from email, web page, etc.)
– Adds MapQuest Open Street Map as a new overlay map option
– Adds MapQuest Open Aerial as a new overlay map option (alternate satellite imagery for US, very limited coverage outside US)
– Overlay maps can be stored for use offline by enabling the Offline Store setting and viewing the required maps
– Help overlays added for new features in 2.3
Changes:
– Revised settings page
Various bug fixes
Locations import/export via KML/KMZ allows you to backup and share your locations across devices, with TPE for Desktop and with other navigation apps such as the Google Earth™ mapping service.
Offline map storage is available for Topographic maps plus the two new map type options added in this version (OSM and Open Aerial).
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
