![]() It’s pretty impressive! In the meantime try the PhotoPills app which is a treasure trove of information and forecasting assistance! Simply move the toggle across for the time you’re hoping to photograph and voila. Suncalc (their map is down currently) allows you to input your location and will then give you directions on a map for which way the sun will be for various times of the day. While you can easily find the sunrise and sunset times online, there are sites available that will help you to find the exact direction and best times for dusk, solar noon and dawn. Shooting in the warm light of sunrise and sunset produces that gorgeous glow everyone dreams of capturing. I’d been watching for when the next big snow fall would be and accuweather got it bang on resulting in a complete winter wonderland to photograph amongst. I booked a last minute trip to Lake Blausee purely based on the Accuweather forecast. Crazy right?Īnyhow, obviously it can’t always be perfect but if you’re a landscape photographer and want to know when to start your hike or how long to sit outside waiting for that perfect sunset…this is a great resource to have! It’s also great for predicting storms. If it said rain at 4pm and clouds were approaching, the most it’s been wrong (on my watch) is by ten minutes. My family and friends are a little sick of me saying ‘check Accuweather’ when they ask if it’s going to rain and I also may have started challenges to see just how accurate it can be. I’ve found if Google says it’s going to be raining, I can then go into AccuWeather and it’ll show me exactly when that rain will fall and how much cloud cover to expect each hour. AccuWeather is usually the result that comes up in Google after of course, the Google weather. Now this isn’t an ad or plug to use the following site, it’s more of a fascination that I have because it’s helped me out SO much with accurate forecasts. The information below is especially relevant if you’re looking to capture landscape or underwater photography as you will primarily be controlled by the weather as to what you can create. If you’ve got this far, hooray! Let’s talk all things weather and photography.Ĭlouds might ruin the day if you plan on lying by the pool but if you’re out to capture long exposures at sunset, they’ll be on the top of your wish list. I hope there’s at least someone else still reading to this point! I actually hesitated about writing this post as it’s letting you in on a pretty big obsession of mine and frankly, I’m not so sure people watch the sky this closely? Surely it’s not just me that gets excited by a line of clouds building in the distance? Or gets a kick out of tracking wind speeds during a storm? It’s about reading the conditions, knowing the forecast and experiencing nature in all of its glory.įrom snow storms to gleaming sunshine, predicting the weather forecast will allow you to prepare to a certain extent for what type of shots you can take and where to go to make the most of the conditions. As a weather geek, photography for me is about so much more than just clicking the shutter. ![]()
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