Planit! for Photographers Pro
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Photo & Video | $9.99 | JIDE Software, Inc. | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
This is a special call to landscape photographers, travel photographers, nature photographers and those who are interested in night photography, city photography, time-lapse, star-trails, milky way or astrophotography: look no more, this is the ultimate app for you - the PlanIt!
Ansel Adams dedicates the beginning of his first book "Taos Pueblo" to visualization. He introduced the idea of "previsualization", which involved the photographer imagining what he wanted his final print to look like before he even took the shot. Of course, there are many great photos which were taken impromptu. However, for landscape photographers, being able to previsualize the scene before going there will greatly reduce the chance of being caught unprepared and will greatly increase the chance of getting better shots.
Photographers use various tools to help them pre-visualizing the scene. Nowadays, many of those tools are phone apps. PlanIt! is the all-in-one solution that is designed to leverage the map and simulated viewfinder technologies to provide the necessary tools for photographers to pre-visualize the scene in combination with the ground subjects and the celestial objects such as the Sun, the Moon, Stars, Star-trails and Milky Way.
In the Planlt app, we packed it with features - from location scouting such as GPS coordinates, elevations, distance, elevation gain, clear view, focal length, depth of field (DoF), hyperfocal distance and panorama, to the Ephemeris features such as the sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset time and direction, twilight time, special hours of the day, sun/moon finder, major stars, constellations, nebulae azimuth and elevation angle, star trail planning, time-lapse calculation and simulation, milky way searching, solar eclipse and lunar eclipse, exposure/ND filter calculator, light meter, bulb timer etc. All the information are either represented on the map as an overlay or visually presented in simulated viewfinders (VR, AR, picture, or street view), just like you look through your camera's viewfinder.
Please refer to the tutorial at the help page of the Planlt for more details. More video tutorials at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bna8_Mj8Bso&index=1&list=PLTmlTTxPbBbeu8Yx4paLUytV8z60SSL_w
Reviews
Tides are way off.
Quentin Biles
Compared high and low tides to multiple databases, and they are off considerably. Makes me question the accuracy of other data. User interface is also extremely unintuitive.
Bed photo planning app period
AgentJRock
I’ve seen them all and I tell you, this one is the hands down best. You can find something with an edgier ui but as far as performance, capabilities, options, tools etc. there is no matching this program. Watch the tutorials to get to know this app. It’s deep but not complicated
A must have
JDBerberick
Thank you, Wenjie, for creating an app that I can trust for every photo trip!
Simple-NOT
Ttbjr
If after an hour, you can't figure out how to take advantage of an app you just spent $ on, likely not worth it. A waste so far.
An unbelievable app for photographers!
Blob3737
I enjoy landscape photography, especially shooting sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, star trials, and of course the Milky Way. I am so glad I found this app, so I can plan ahead and know where exactly to certain composition. It shows precisely the sun/moon/star/Milky Way position , and your camera location as well as what you will see in view finder. What's more important is the time, accurate to minutes the precise location. The small app contains so much useful information that I don't have to "shoot in the dark" without planing. It saved me so much time by planning ahead. You have to try it to believe it! Worth every penny and much more!! If you used TPE before like me, you will know immediately how much better this one is ! Highly recommend without hesitation !!
Fantastic tool for photographer or explorer, worth every penny
Edcool Photography
I am a photographer in favor of shooting landscape with sunrise/sunset, moonrise/moonset, Milkyway, and coastal scenic view. PlanIt was such a great tool that worked for me in everything that I liked to shoot in planning ahead of time. I knew exactly when and which angle the sun/moon/Milkyway would show up in a particular location that I choose for my foreground. In addition, the tide info also helped me to decide when and where to go in shooting big wave or reflection of ocean water in low tide. PlanIt is a such versatile tool that has photography in mind for user's camera/lens capability, which adds planning more practical to use. In the field, I used it as a GPS tracking tool to set marks as many as I want. Such marks were very helpful in my finding, tracking my shoot positions, particularly in dark. I used its marker function to record every spot that worth to memorized for future. I used PlanIt in my Bisti trip last Thanksgiving. l first used it to find all of my interested spots that I planned to shoot ahead of time. I then used it to guide me walking from one spot to another during the day or in complete dark. Without it, I would have been never dare to go there. In future, I wish PlanIt to have capability to record my walking track (GPS positions) so that it could be saved for myself for later or could be shared for others.
An essential companion for photograghers
iPura Vida
Being a Washingtonian and an amateur photographer, I have always wondered how I can add the sun, the moon, or even start trails to the Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, the Capitol, or Washington Monument. Often I ran into the situation that I wished I were a few minutes earlier or a few yards to my left. Not anymore! With PlanIt, I can schedule down to an accuracy of minutes and be at the exact location that I want to be. Instead now I often find myself being an absolute minority standing in middle of nobody or at place nobody would take. This last March I went to the tidal basin like other Washingtonians and hundreds and thousands of other tourists to see 2016 Cherry blossom. PlanIt told me that starting 7:10am on March 24, 2016, the sun would start entering the see-through portion of the Jefferson Memorial. I made my plan ahead of time and wanted to take a shot with the rising sun right behind the Jefferson statue and knew exact latitude and longitude coordinates for where I wanted to be. When I got there next morning, the area was cover with hundreds of people with DSLR cameras, DS cameras, and cellphones. But luckily the spot I wanted to be was still available. It was barely enough for me to set up my tripod. There's another photographer in front of me and kindly created an obstructed view for me. But he and I had an agreement that he would duct down after he pushed the shutter. Around 7am, the person in front of me apparently got what he wanted and packed his equipment and left. Then I had a clear view of what I had planed. Around 7:12am, the golden red sun started moving into the open area of the memorial. I started talking a few shots. When it moved to the center of the memorial, I took a whole bunch of shots. Right before the sun moved out of the see-through area, I took a few more and then I put away my camera and tripod and left for work. I later found out from my shots that around 7:18am, the sun was dead on the statue and went out the open area around 7:24am. I had the best shot I ever did on the Jefferson Memorial. This app is also a must-have for taking Milky Way shots, especially for taking a shot of the entire Milky Way. It will tell exactly how many shots you need for the lens you have and how to move from one end of arch to the other. Moreover, it will guide you on avoiding the moon when you were taking a picture of the Milky Way or taking the advantage of the moonlight when taking the foreground shot for your Milky Way picture. It has a deep learning curve. However, if you only focus on one thing at a time, for example, shooting a full moon, then the app looks much simplified. It can tell you when and where. If you want the full moon to be on top of a paramount building or landscape, PlanIt will calculate available dates and time for you. Or it may simply tell you what you want is impossible:-( Contact them if you have any questions. They are always there to help you, at least that's what they did to me.
Best planning app out there...
Apsphoto
I have tried many planning apps and was a long time TPE user. This app is the best planning app out there, sure it takes some effort to learn but you will be rewarded. Start simple and work up to more complex shots. There are some tutorials, view them on YouTube. The effort to learn is well rewarded with well planned shots and little wasted time. Works well on both systems iOS and the other kind, I use both. Highly recommended, not simple but rich in features that are unbeatable in any other app. And I am just a happy user not associated in anyway with the developer.
Loved it, but bugs getting aggravating
Grant0
Fantastic app for planning shots, when it works. But having put up with the app crashing so frequently, I'm looking at alternatives. They finally fixed the issue where the app crashed whenever you try to change the scene's time, but now it crashes whenever you try to go into Viewfinder mode (as of Sept 10 2016 update). [UPDATE:] Have determined that crash is occurring due to Bing elevation service. Not sure what the issue is specifically, but the app is definitely not handling the Bing API gracefully.
Very nice App
Awpwner
I like this app very much, compare to other ones. It's easier to understand and can provide applicable plan solution. Thanks a lot!
