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 BA (Hons), ARPS 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.She holds a First Class Honours degree in Photography and is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society (ARPS).Her journalism, criticism and editorial work have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography and NikonPro, among other international publications.Through TheAppWhisperer, she brings together academic knowledge, professional photographic expertise and more than 17 years of specialist editorial experience to examine contemporary photography, mobile imaging, computational photography, photographic applications and emerging imaging technologies.
