Photo Breakdown

The Sunlitt app is transforming how photographers plan their photo sessions. Sunlitt is an app designed to simplify the planning process for photographers by focusing on light, sun, moon and shadows. 

"While I still love PhotoPills, I probably will wind up using Sunlitt for the majority of my planning when I need more simple planning."

See my article and video about Sunlitt on my blog or YouTube.
 
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Scott Wyden Kivowitz
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Photo Planning Made Easy With Sunlitt
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[00:00:00] Scott Wyden Kivowitz: So for years I have been using the app called PhotoPills. The app has been amazing for planning photo sessions, whatever the type might be, right? And PhotoPills is still an amazing app, and I still support it in every way. However, I came across an app that just seemed far simpler because PhotoPills does a lot.

[00:00:59] I [00:01:00] mean a lot. It is for planning. An entire photo session from the lens you're using to angles everything, whereas this new app that I am playing around with and I just made a YouTube video about, which you'll see you go to my YouTube channel, the link is the description. This app is something else. It is designed to show you a bunch of data that PhotoPills also offers, but it's a bunch of data like the, the, the moon and the sun and, and timings of things, but it's bread and butter is shadows.

[00:01:40] This app is called Sunlitt, S U N L I T T, this app is designed for you to navigate the map, find your location, you can add it as a favorite, and you can see how it's going to look, actually look, based on the map that it's showing you, right, [00:02:00] and you've got three different modes that you can look at. it's showing you where the shadow is going to be based on the sun, so you can visualize your subject placement and your placement and things like that.

[00:02:15] You can also place objects, you can use augmented reality and place objects, so if your subject is not there yet, you can actually place an object, Act. In the view or in the augmented reality and see how the shadow will look on the exact day and time if you're at that location. So, you know, I'm if you're just listening to this.

[00:02:34] I'm holding up my phone and I've got Sunlitt open to basically the Brooklyn Brooklyn Bridge. I'm recording this. On November 2nd, it is, sorry, December 2nd. It is 3:28. and I can see exactly where the sun is if I was standing in front of the Brooklyn Bridge from the Dumbo side of [00:03:00] in Brooklyn. And I could visualize where the sun's going to be and I know that if I'm facing Manhattan, the sun is to my left behind me.

[00:03:11] And it's going to be sort of casting shadows. Beautiful, It's going dark. Right. Okay, so. That's just one of the many things they can do, but here is the best part about Sunlitt. One, it's quite affordable, you can buy a lifetime plan. There was a Black Friday sale as well. two, desktop app, iPhone app, Apple Watch app, iPad app, Apple Vision Pro app.

[00:03:41] I don't know if they're working on any Android things, I'm guessing no. But the user experience, at least between, I have an iPhone, I have a Mac computer, I have an Apple Watch. I haven't played around with the companion stuff on the Apple Watch so much, but I did open it up and just take a peek. [00:04:00] The interface is so seamless between all the devices.

[00:04:05] They did a fantastic job. And it's super easy, super, super easy to use. I did find, I've used it now for two different proposal photo sessions, I did find that my phone in one of the sessions didn't have the best accuracy and it's actually because I was surrounded by very, very old.

[00:04:24] Pardon the weird break, but for some reason my software that I used to record stopped recording. So I'm gonna pick up where I left off. The accuracy was actually because I was surrounded by four walls of cement, brick, and marble. So it was blocking just regular data. I couldn't even send a text message from in there.

[00:04:45] So once I left the, this sort of courtyard, everything was fine. I was able to do everything and the accuracy was pinpointing again. Sunlitt, I've now used for two different p proposal sessions, I totally see myself using it for [00:05:00] additional, I am not paid by Sunlitt at all, I did, for full disclosure, get the app for free to use, but there is no contract that said I had to say anything good or bad, I am just speaking my mind, and while I still love PhotoPills, I probably will wind up using Sunlitt For majority of my planning, when I need more simple planning, if I need things that are more,granular, from top to bottom, I might use PhotoPills for that, but you can't have too many.

[00:05:35] tools in your toolbox. So I'm very excited about using Sunlitt. I will link to my article that has my video in it, in the description below, which will also give you access to Find Sunlitt or you just Google it in or look in the app store and you'll find it there. and either way, I really appreciate listening to this.

[00:05:54] I love coming across apps that are very useful. I never. knew existed before [00:06:00] or never didn't really pay much attention to before, But I'm glad that I started chatting with the folks at the Sunlitt app to get this underway and to check it out. there you have it. Thanks for listening to another episode of Photo Breakdown.

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