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Golden light is a golden hour calculator that tells you when the sun rises and sets on any day at any place on earth. It will give you a window of time when the sunlight is perfect for photos, video, or film. Tell Golden Light where you're shooting by choosing a location on a map or from a list of countries and cities. Set a reminder for when golden hour begins or ends. With Golden Light, you'll never miss that perfect opportunity for perfect light!
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Photo & Video Free Videomaker, Inc Mobile iPhone, iPad, iPod

Reviews

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Runner5 + Pet

With only one ad as soon as i downloaded Golden Hour, I was able to quickly establish my partner’s location and send him a screenshot of the best time for him to retake his photos. I was worried i wasn't going to be able to since so many golden hour apps cost money but this one gave me everything i needed in two minutes.


Dgo
Cloudy Ridge

The map is absolutely terrible. Better get Google Maps or Bing in there with satellite option to make it usable. In the meantime, this app is deleted from my device...seeya.


A good start
rb42

The map doesn't have all the detail of Google or Apple maps, but then I doubt it would be used for navigation. The app appears to use the GPS correctly to locate you. The big problem is that if you are at a spot not near a point recognizable on their map, the location is labeled "unknown". There is no way of editing the point to give it a useable name. So several spots in the boonies would all be labeled "unknown". Not too handy. As a nice addition, it would be great if you could set an alarm for a point to indicate that the golden hour was coming up.


Very limited, not customizeable at all.
stevengotts

Great idea. Could be 5 star. I deleted immediately when I had no control over how to define magic hour. I have always used two hours after and before. This gives you a locked in 40 minutes. Maybe good for beginners but very unrealistic for commercial shoots. Nothing can be customized. Great maybe for students to get the concept. Far better to use a real tool like LightTrac . And video maker put their name on this? Btw the way the alarm timer should be automagically be linked to 30 minutes before the customizable default magic duration. To much useless time spent rolling the tumblers to alarm time.


??Location??
Video1_Bill

When trying to choose location in "Select Location>Select Country>United States", there's "AOL" & "WebTV" but not the state of Georgia. App gives window of time around sunst & sunrise of your location. Would be nice to be able to edit the name of the location (current name by default is "Unavailable") in the "Bookmarks".


Not there yet
Somerpage

This app isn't as intuitive as other golden hour apps. It doesn't detect your current location. You have to set it manually. It also doesn't store your location so you have to reset it every time you use it.


Used to work great....not anymore
Dollfingal22

Ever since the update, the sunset and sunrise times are wrong (sunrise is not at 1:48am). I've tried deleting and reinstalling, same issue.


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