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Photopills User Guide PhotoPills User Guide www.photopills.com Feel free to share this eBook © PhotoPills April 2019 2 Never Stop Learning The Definitive Guide to Shoo- ting Hypnotic Star Trails How To Shoot Truly Conta- gious Milky Way Pictures Understanding Golden Hour, Blue Hour and Twilights 7 Tips to Make the Next Su- permoon Shine in Your Pho- tos MORE TUTORIALS AT PHOTOPILLS.COM/ACADEMY Understanding How To Plan the Azimuth and Milky Way Using Elevation The Augmented Reality How to find moon- How To Plan The rises and moon- Next Full Moon sets PhotoPills Awards Get your photos featured and win $6,600 in cash prizes Learn more+ Join PhotoPillers from around the world for a 7 fun-filled days of learning and adventure in the island of light! Learn More (Updated to iOS v2.10, Android v1.5) Welcome to PhotoPills! It all began in 2013 with an iPhone app, but after developing the Android version and cre- ating a tribe of over 300,000 PhotoPillers across the world, PhotoPills is turning into some- thing different, something more exciting... A movement of photographers that share the same vision: “To always be at the right place at the right time to capture the scenes we imagine...” PhotoPills is our crystal ball, our lightsaber... The tool that allows us to let our imagination fly and do all the planning to capture the photos we dream of. Imagine. Plan. Shoot! We created PhotoPills to help you go from ideas to real photos. 6 To help you: • Imagine, get inspired, be more creative, come up with different photo ideas with the Sun, the Moon, the Milky Way, Star Trails, Eclipses... • Plan them, find the right shooting spot and right shooting date and time the scenes you imagine actually happen... • So you can go and Shoot them, capture your own photo ideas. To achieve it, PhotoPills includes all you need: from sources of inspiration and learning to advanced planning tools and photography calculators. All of this will become clear as you read through this guide. Ready? “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 7 Contents 1 Getting Started 12 The first thing you should do when downloading PhotoPills: Enable the Widgets! . 13 How to approach PhotoPills? Set a goal first! ...................... 15 The three PhotoPills Menus (My Stuff, Pills and Academy) . 16 Tell us your pain and we’ll tell you the Pill to take (problem vs. solution) . 20 2 Planner - Introduction 27 Introduction to planning .................................. 28 The 4 parts of the Planner ................................. 30 3 Planner - Top Panels 34 Panel 1: Shadow length calculator ............................. 35 Panel 2: Pin to pin geodetic info (Black Pin) ....................... 37 Panel 3: Sun/Moon position (azimuth and elevation) . 40 Panel 4: Sun/Moon rise and set times ........................... 42 Panel 5: Twilights ...................................... 44 Panel 6: Golden hour and blue hour ............................ 46 Panel 7: Galactic Center visibility (Milky Way) ...................... 47 Panel 8: Milky Way quality and position ......................... 49 Panel 9: Eclipse selector and info ............................. 51 Panel 10: Eclipse phase times ............................... 53 4 Planner - Map 55 Red Pin ............................................ 57 Black Pin ........................................... 58 Map buttons: (+) Map button and Map settings button . 59 Map tools (Field of View, Depth of Field, Sun/Moon) ................... 59 Map info: Sun, Moon, Milky Way, Twilights, Shadows and Eclipses . 59 5 Planner - (+) Map button (toolbar) 60 6 Planner - Map Settings button 64 Planner modes: Camera mode and Drone mode ..................... 66 Map type button ...................................... 67 Map tool overview ...................................... 68 Field of View tool ...................................... 70 Depth of Field tool ..................................... 72 Sun/Moon tool ........................................ 74 Map layers overview .................................... 76 Sun layer ........................................... 78 Moon layer .......................................... 84 Milky Way layer ....................................... 91 8 Twilights layer ........................................ 93 Shadow layer ........................................ 94 Eclipse layer ......................................... 95 Reset Map layers ...................................... 99 7 Planner - Time Bar 100 How to change date and time with the Time Bar . 101 8 Planner - Bottom options 103 Find ............................................. 104 AR (Augmented Reality) .................................. 115 Night AR ........................................... 117 Load ............................................. 120 Save ............................................. 121 More > Date ......................................... 122 More > Altitudes ....................................... 124 More > Horizon ....................................... 126 More > Action ........................................ 128 9 Sun 130 Info .............................................. 131 Calendar ........................................... 134 Augmented Reality (AR) .................................. 135 Seasons ........................................... 137 Action ............................................ 138 10 Moon 139 Info .............................................. 140 Calendar ........................................... 144 Augmented Reality (AR) .................................. 145 Distances .......................................... 147 Action ............................................ 149 11 Exposure 150 Long exposure calculator (ND filters, Star Trails, low light and at night) . 151 Exposure values ....................................... 153 Timer ............................................. 154 Share ............................................. 155 12 Depth of field (DoF) 156 Classic depth of field calculator .............................. 157 Inverse ............................................ 159 Advanced .......................................... 161 To field of view (FoV) .................................... 163 Augmented Reality (AR) .................................. 164 9 Share ............................................. 165 13 Depth of field Table 166 Depth of field Table ..................................... 167 Visual ............................................ 169 Augmented Reality (AR) .................................. 170 Share ............................................. 171 14 Hyperfocal Table 172 Hyperfocal table ...................................... 173 Visual ............................................ 174 Augmented Reality (AR) .................................. 175 Share ............................................. 176 15 Field of View (FoV) 177 Classic field of view calculator .............................. 178 Inverse ............................................ 180 Augmented Reality (AR) .................................. 182 To depth of field (DoF) ................................... 183 Share ............................................. 184 16 Subject distance 185 Subject distance calculator ................................ 186 To depth of field (DoF) ................................... 187 To field of view (FoV) .................................... 188 Augmented Reality (AR) .................................. 189 Share ............................................. 190 17 Focal Length Match 191 Focal length match calculator ............................... 192 Share ............................................. 193 18 Night Augmented Reality (AR) 194 Night Augmented Reality (AR) ............................... 195 Settings (change location, date and time) ........................ 197 Visual calibration ...................................... 198 Action ............................................ 199 19 Star Trails 200 Star Trails calculator .................................... 201 Timer ............................................. 202 Share ............................................. 203 20Spot Stars 204 Spot Stars calculator .................................... 205 Augmented Reality (AR) .................................. 207 10 Timer ............................................. 208 Share ............................................. 209 21 Time lapse 210 Time lapse calculator .................................... 211 Interval table ........................................ 213 Timer ............................................. 214 Share ............................................. 215 22Timer 216 Timer ............................................. 217 23My Stuff (Menu) 218 Awards ............................................ 219 Plans ............................................. 221 Points of Interest ...................................... 223 Backup ............................................ 225 Settings ........................................... 226 24Academy (Menu) 229 User Guide .......................................... 230 Video tutorials ....................................... 230 “How To” articles ...................................... 231 T-Shirts ........................................... 231 The Team .......................................... 232 Rate the app ......................................... 232 Feedback .......................................... 232 Glossary ........................................... 232 25This is just the beginning 233 What’s next? ........................................
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