Photographer's Field Tools Pro

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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, photographers tend to previsualize the scene before they go there, which will greatly increase the chance of getting better shots. In the other words, they already decided where to go to the best view, at what time of the day, with what kind of lens and filters, etc. Photographers use various tools to help them pre-visualizing the scene. Nowadays, many of those tools are phone apps. For example, the famous TPE app can be helpful visualizing the Sun and Moon location at a giving time and location. A star map app can be used to predict where the Milky Way is. A map such as the Google Map can also be used to determine geographic characters surround the scene. This Photographer's Field Tools (or PFT in short) is designed to leverage the Google Map to provide the necessary tools for photographers to pre-visualize the scene. Some questions that you might ask yourself before going out for a photographing trip are:* Where should I go to get a nice view of the subject? * How far am I from the subject? * What angle will I look at my subject at?* Do I get a clear view of it? * What lens should I bring? * Can I get the composition I want using one lens or will I have to take multiple shots and stitch them together? * How many shots do I need to take to create a panorama and how many angle should each shot cover?If you are interested in the answer of any of the questions above, the PFT is the right tool for you. In a simple app, we included five tools for you which allow you to find out GPS location, elevation, distance, elevation gain, whether there is a direct view between two locations on the map, focal length (both horizontally and vertically, landscape orientation or portrait orientation), depth of field or DOF in short, hyperfocal distance and panorama, and all of those are represented to you visually on a real map.Please refer to http://yingwentech.wordpress.com/introduction-to-photographers-field-tools/ for more details.Recent changes:v1.0 the first releasev1.1 add choices to display one or two locations, add a setting set the height of the camera position, tilt the map for vertical focal length toolv1.2 add save/load, auto-fit, pin the locations etc. featuresv1.3 add panorama toolv1.4 add grid lines to focal length tools (1/3, 1/4, golden ratio etc.), performance tuning, fixed the wrong label was used for longitude valuesContent rating: Low Maturity