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METHOD # 1 Can be done at the location METHOD # 2 Can be done on Google Earth in the office. No need to be at the location. See below, this page.. |
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No need to be at the location to acquire the compass bearings. Google Earth will give the direction of North, then figure the line of your subject within the dial. In the left photo below taken from Google Earth, the yellow line indicates the line of the subject position at 100 degree's and 280 degree's on this example site. With the Sunplanr app, lay that subject line out on your iPod touch, iPhone or iPad dial. Rotate the viewer (green) cone towards the subject. Here the viewer is looking at 190 degrees. |
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Checking the website, www.sunposition.info, the sun rises on October 4th in Nashville Tennessee at 6:45 AM on azimuth 97 and sets 6:30 PM azinuth 268. |
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In this bottom photo, the sun is placed on 97 degrees at sunrise on the iPod touch, iPhone or iPad. As one can see on the dial, the facade of the building being photographed is lacking sun at 97 degrees this time of year. Rotating the red sun on the dial to 268 degrees at sunset shows there will be no sun on the north facade of the building. This would be the wrong time of the year to photograph the front facade if sunlight is needed. |
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Copyright 2011 Dick Reed |
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ROTATE THE DIALS TO GRAPHICALLY LAYOUT YOUR SUBJECT LOCATION PLAN
A - 8:00 AM
B - 11:43 AM
C - 1:12 PM
D - 2:45 PM
• SUNPLANR APP IS A CONTROLLED GRAPHIC LAYOUT OF YOUR LOCATION SITE •
E-MAIL ALL GRAPHIC COMPOSITE STUDIES TO THE OFFICE OR CLIENT INCLUDING A MAPQUEST AND GPS.
Graphic taken from www.sunposition.info site using JFK Airport, New York as an example only.
ROTATE THE SUN ON THE DIAL AROUND THE PRODUCT FOR YOUR SELECTIVE LIGHT
OBTAIN A GRAPHIC OF YOUR SUBJECT CITY FROM A SUN POSITION SITE SUCH AS:
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IT CREATES AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE SUNS POSITIONS AND EFFECTS ON A SUBJECT ON YOUR LOCATION SITE. IT WILL VISUALLY MAKE IT EASY TO VIEW THE POSITIONS AND KNOW PRECISE TIMES OF IMPORTANCE. JUST DIAL DIFFERANT COMPOSITE DRAWINGS ON THE iPHONE, iPOD TOUCH OR iPAD AS IF YOUR MAKING NOTES ON PAPER, SAVE THEM IN MEMORY AND E-MAIL THEM TO ALL INVOLVED.
NO MORE GUESSING WHEN OR WHERE THE SUN WILL BE.
I use www.sunposition.info because it is so user friendly.
Times are illustrated below in red on the sunposition graphic.that can be acquired from www.sunposition.info. site
Bearing 95
Bearing 145
Bearing 205
Bearing 255
I save all the dial studies and the sun position graphic in Photos on my iPhone. This makes it so easy to compare the studies.
NO MORE MISPLACED WRITTEN NOTES
Google Earth photograph of a building in Nashville as an example only
