----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Take a look at the Cinemeter 2...it not only does sun locations, but helps with F stops and a bunch of other stuff. Jennie On Thu, 10 Nov 1994 [log in to unmask] wrote: > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > I'm an advertising photographer working in the Washington, DC area. in 1985 I > came up with a concept for a piece of software that I would find useful to my > work. On many occasions I had been left to scramble or left "high and dry" > by the sun not being or going to the location I needed it to be for the photo > that was needed. > > Three years ago, with nothing found on the market, I set about creating it > myself. It is called "SunWhere"(tm). What it does, simply put, is this: > select the name of the place your interested in, and the date; the software > draws a map of the sun from the time it rises till it sets. You will know > the direction of your location "light sorce" for the entire day. Weather it > is a morning shoot or evening shoot. I'm nearly finnished with the product > and would like to get some feedback. I would like to know your reactions to > the usefullness this might have for you. > > Concurrent with my publishing this software I will be publishing a similar > application that does the same for the moon and draws the shape of the moon, > on that date, at that place. > > E-mail any reactions you might have to "Ex 213" Thanks! > > P.S. Subsequent to my starting this project there has been several other > similar products introduced. > These all require you to know the: > -latitude of the place > -longitude of the place > -the magnetic declination of the place > -the # of hours from Greenwich Mean Time for the place > -the observance of Daylight Savings Time for the place > > I'm pleased to know, with all the time, work and money I've invested, that my > software is unique in that the user needs to only know the name of the place > and the date. > > Tentative publication date is January 1, 1995. Initially the data base covers > the 50 states of the United States. Other locations can be manually imputed. >