In episode #1 of the Tripod Podcast, Jim, Nick, and Majeed discuss landscape photography location scouting. Subscribe to the new show in iTunes!
10 thoughts on “Landscape Photography: Scouting for the ultimate location”
Kelly
Great first episode. Show notes please? 🙂
Dave s
I thought you were going to put the apps you discusses, in the show notes
Please?
Jared Talbot
You guys mentioned the “best” part of the Milky Way. Could you refer to the constellations that outline the best part so I can find it in my star chart app?
Jared Talbot
Is the best part of the Milky Way part of the scutum constellation?
Gary Aidekman
Still searching for show notes. When will they be posted?
The Photographer’s Ephemeris http://photoephemeris.com/
Editorial to Tripod’s comments about this predicting access to the sun through clouds: This is an app to show you WHERE the sun/moon will rise and fall. Choose a location and you can find where the sun will rise in relation to that spot. This allows you to plan what location you WANT the sun to emerge over. It isn’t something to tell you whether clouds will obscure your view. Although it will tell if the landscape will obscure the sunrise/set.
Milky Way Season
Stellarium will help you find when the Milky Way is up for your location.
Milky way comes up YEAR ROUND.
The BULGE of the Milky Way comes up seasonally in most locations.
In Northern Latitudes such as where I live in Utah, the Bulge of the Milky is visible above the horizon for different lengths and times during the night only from February to October.
It always rises it just sometimes is only during the daylight hours.
Great first episode. Show notes please? 🙂
I thought you were going to put the apps you discusses, in the show notes
Please?
You guys mentioned the “best” part of the Milky Way. Could you refer to the constellations that outline the best part so I can find it in my star chart app?
Is the best part of the Milky Way part of the scutum constellation?
Still searching for show notes. When will they be posted?
Hard to find th podcastsite (;
I use photopills to plan my trips. It is a realy nice app/tool.
Show Notes PLEASE !!!
Great podcast but in it you stated you would share the notes. When will they be posted?
Begging….show notes…or at least respond
Here are most of the show notes. I re-listened to the first 28 mins and here is what I got:
500px MAPS
https://500px.com/maps
Google Earth
https://www.google.com/earth/
Turn on Photos
Flickr
http://www.flickr.com
Sort by “Date Taken”
Google Doc List of Jim’s locations (Can’t include here, Jim would need to.)
Wolfram Alpha
https://www.wolframalpha.com/
Site for stuff like:
When does the milky way rise in x location?
Lunar Phases and Sunrise/Set
Stellarium
http://www.stellarium.org/
Free app to simulate the night sky so you know where the milky way is, planets are, when the moon sets etc.
Storm
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/storm-radar-storm-tracking/id955957721?mt=8
https://www.wunderground.com/micro/storm/
The Photographer’s Ephemeris
http://photoephemeris.com/
Editorial to Tripod’s comments about this predicting access to the sun through clouds: This is an app to show you WHERE the sun/moon will rise and fall. Choose a location and you can find where the sun will rise in relation to that spot. This allows you to plan what location you WANT the sun to emerge over. It isn’t something to tell you whether clouds will obscure your view. Although it will tell if the landscape will obscure the sunrise/set.
Weather Bug
https://play.google.com/store/people/details?id=111793367890545638381&hl=en
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/weatherbug-free-local-weather/id281940292?mt=8
Particularly the Spark feature for lightning storms
Milky Way Season
Stellarium will help you find when the Milky Way is up for your location.
Milky way comes up YEAR ROUND.
The BULGE of the Milky Way comes up seasonally in most locations.
In Northern Latitudes such as where I live in Utah, the Bulge of the Milky is visible above the horizon for different lengths and times during the night only from February to October.
It always rises it just sometimes is only during the daylight hours.