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When will the sun be high enough?

When will the sun be high enough?

From the course: Photo Gear Weekly

When will the sun be high enough?

- Sometimes a little planning can be tremendously helpful in photography. For example, I'm in a hilly area here, and I might want to know when the sun is going to be up above the hill. I had exactly that type of experience on the island of Capri in Italy not too long ago. There were some boats in a marina that I wanted to photograph, and I wanted to get there in early morning light, golden hour, essentially. But I wasn't sure exactly what time that was going to be because there was rather rugged terrain. The terrain was going to block the sun, so right at sunrise there would be no sun on those boats. But using an app called The Photographer's Ephemeris, which is available in your web browser or for smart phones, I was able to plan. And so I could specify the location on the map where I wanted to be doing my photography where those boats were on the island of Capri. And then I could use the geodetics feature to place…

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