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Planning a moon shot

Planning a moon shot

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Planning a moon shot

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- There are seemingly countless accessories available to the photographer but I think actually the accessory that I find most valuable most of the time in my photography is data. And in the context of the data I'm referring to that means that I always want to have a smartphone with me out in the field or when I'm planning a shot because that enables me to take advantage of an app that makes it possible to plan very easily for including the sun or the moon in a photo. And I use this for example, in Rome to photograph the full moon. I knew that there would be a full moon while I was there, thankfully the weather cooperated and I was able to use an app called The Photographer's Ephemeris available for smartphones, as well as a web application in order to plan that shot. Let's take a look at what that looked like. I'll start off in The Photographer's Ephemeris app and I'll set the location first in this case Rome, Italy. And so down at the bottom center I can tap Locations and then tap…

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