PhotoPills Friday Ep 1: GETTING STARTED
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- Welcome to the first episode of PHOTOPILLS FRIDAY! If you find this photography app confusing to learn, you are not alone. In this episode, I give a basic overview of PhotoPills and all of the photography tools it has to offer.
If you are brand new to PhotoPills or are considering purchasing it, then this video is for you. I also show you how to turn on the widgets for quick access to sun, moon and night sky data for your location.
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2 years after and people (me) are benefiting from your tutoring. I couldn’t really appreciate the photopills guy because his accent is too strong for me to understand so I’m thrilled to find your site. Thanks!
Yep, that's REALLY TRUE. I speak 3 languages, two practically natively, and one of those is spanish.
I coundn't understand A THING. The app is great, but damn is hard to understand the guy.
Brenda, in one word you're a good teacher. Thank you very much!!!!
You bet! You're most welcome! :)
Brenda, you're amazing for taking on this task. Thank you. I've had PhotoPills on my iPhone for a while now, and while I've figured out some of its feature set, there is so much that I still find intimidating. I look forward to sharing this journey with you.
Thanks so much, David! I'm looking forward to it too.
You are a great teacher. Your calm, organized manner makes it easy to follow along and learn. I had downloaded the user manual. But, oh my, 250 plus pages was daunting and boring. Your videos make the PhotoPills app understandable which means I will be able to use it with ease. Thank you.
Super! That's great to hear!
Awesome video Brenda! Thanks so much... love the T-shirt 😍
Thanks so much, Rafael! :)
Thanks for taking the time to do this guide for dummies. I certaily qualify for that category.
I had to pause the video to research online where to find widgets on my phone!
I need to get out and use my camera more. It cost me £700 about three years ago and i use it so infrequently it's like the first time every time i use it.
I subscribed to Photopills over a year ago and despite installing the app on my phone, following this video is probably the second time i've opened the app.
I've subscribed and liked
I'm re-watching your excellent series of PhotoPills tutorials Brenda as I am preparing for my next trip to my favorite spot in the Austrian Alps. A big thank you again and wishing you all the best.
Thank you Brenda for this series. I have been thinking about getting Photopills for a while. I am looking forward to seeing the next video.
Excellent! Ep 2 came out today :).
Talking to Martha this morning and she told me you were doing these videos! I am so stoked to learn more about PhotoPills and to have you as the teacher. Thank you. Be safe.
I'm so glad! It's great having you here. I hope you are staying safe and well too!
Glad you are doing this Brenda. I'm only using a little of what it can do.
Glad to help!
Nice introduction video Brenda, looking forward to the rest of the series 👍🏼🇦🇺📷
Great - thank you Steve!
Hi Brenda,
Thank you very much for simplifying the rather complicated, (to me at least), PhotoPills app and its menus and tools.
Now I have an understanding of knowing what to do while using PhotoPills. 👍
Thanks -this is a much needed series. I love Photopills.
Fortunately, having spent time living aboard and blue water sailing, navigating by celestial navigation has made Photopills simple for me to understand.
It is not so simple, if you don't understand the way the Solar System and Galaxy work,. Your videos are very valuable to fill this gap.
Thanks for the positive feedback! Feel free to chime in anytime to share any insights I may miss not having the navigation background you have.
@@outdoorphotographyschool7366 I think you have it covered - I am loving your channel - thanks again.
Thank you so much for creating this series! Just getting started, with PhotoPills, but not intuitive and brain-heavy! In just your first four episodes, I’ve gathered a greater understanding of the planner, than I would have in weeks on my own!
I always said I would figure this out someday when I had time. Your timing is perfect! Thank you!
That's great, Charlene!
Thanks so much for starting this series! Your tutorials are much easier to understand than the PhotoPills videos in the app.
My pleasure! I'm happy to help.
Yes I was (when I bought it) well I'm not like an expert now but I have a better idea!
1:51 Wow I didn't know! 😮
Night AR tool great I gonna use it and I need to practice more time lapse photography
I will add them to my widget menu.
Thanks for the video. Stay safe you and your family!😃
Glad the series will be helpful - and you stay well and safe too!
Hi Brenda,
I love my PHOTOPILLS, purchased a couple years ago. Absolutely a very useful app.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and know how, I certainly appreciate the time you take to take to do this.
Stay safe, God bless
Glad to help! And glad to hear that you find the app valuable.
This is a well done video that I come back to now and then. But the problem is that every time I pull out PhotoPills I have to watch another video to remember how to use it, similar to DaVinci Resolve, etc. I think PhotoPills is too hard to use and not at all intuitive. It would be easier to spend a few more minutes in Google Earth since I need to use that software anyway.
It's a little eerie, Brenda, that you know so much about me and Photo Pills! I'm thrilled that you are starting this series. I try to understand the developer, but just get lost. Since you're one of my favorite teachers, I know that I'll be able to start using Photo Pills for more than just saying, "Yeah, I got that app...........don't all good photographers have it?".
Haha - maybe it sounds familiar because I was in your shoes a couple of years ago! Glad this will be helpful!
Thanks Brenda for doing this series. I love using PhotoPills and trying to get better at using all the features. Please continue doing these. I’m not a professional photographer like you, but am enjoying this new hobby. Thanks again!
That's great! Happy to be able to help.
I had this app on my Android phone for over a year but didn't realize the power of the app. Thanks for the intro video. Looking forward for your next video.
Wonderful! Hopefully you'll learn a lot.
Have had these videos saved and now digging in. So glad you are doing this series. Maybe I’ll finally use the app. Thanks.
I hope you do! It's a handy tool to know how to use if needed.
You have just convinced me to purchase this. I look forward to following this series. Thank you for sharing.
Excellent! Glad you will be able to learn with it as we go through the videos.
Thanks Brenda, once again you surprise me, I added to the widgets of my phone the points of PhotoPills. Cheers
:) Thanks, Jorge! I'm glad it was easy to do.
Thank you Brenda. I look at PhotoPills and although amazing at what it can do, I just look at bit and think “whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!!?!!!”
Thank you for doing this series.. looking forward to the up coming videos😊 x
I know the feeling! That's how I felt when I was first learning it as well. Glad this will be useful to you!
Thanks, just what the doctor ordered. Looking forward to this series...
Glad to hear it!
Thank you for doing this - nay, BLESS YOU FOR DOING THIS!!!!!!!
Thanks so much for this! I've had PhotoPills for a long time, but have only used it a handful of times. I'm excited to learn how to use this fabulous tool!
That's great!
Very cool Brenda. I use PP, but struggle with it so I am looking forward to this. Great job on the first so I will see you each Friday.
Glad to hear you'll be joining in! Thanks!
Can’t wait for the next video!
It's up now! :)
Thank you for this! Looking forward to learning this app...finally lol
You bet!
Hi Brenda. I have been going through my CZcams subscriptions to reduce the number. I was just thinking that I hadn't seen very many videos of yours lately. I wanted to include yours. Then I ran across your PhotoPills tutorials. I know some basics but that is about it. I did use it to prepare for the full moon this month. I look forward to going through your tutorials. Thank you.
I'm so glad I made the cut! :) I plan to make more landscape tutorials in the future. Right now with the restrictions in place (and a foot injury), I'm not doing a lot of photography in the field, so I've been focusing on tutorials that I can create from my office. I'm itching to get back out, though!
I just purchased PhotoPills. I used it recently to capture the recent full moon over the mountains. But there are a lot of options and features that I don't know. Given that I am pretty much stuck at home (I am in the 60+ category). I am going to go through your tutorials on PhotoPills. I look forward to each one. I hope your foot is healing. Thank you for the tutorials.
Thank you so so much for helping me understand this amazing app. You are a great teacher.
Love the PhotoPills app, but after watching one of your Milky Way videos, I realized just how much more there is to the app. Can’t wait to see what else I was unaware of
Excellent!
Thanks so much for the video Brenda! I shared it with our local FaceBook group (Tucson Milk Way Chasers) here in Arizona. Stay safe!
That's awesome - thanks so much for sharing it!
Brilliant start to the PhotoPills tutorial! I was getting quite excited waiting here in the UK and I watched it with a big smile on! Really nicely put across and looking forward to your next video thank you!
Yay! So glad the video made you smile! That makes me very happy!
Just downloaded the PP app and started looking for help immediately as it looks very intimidating. Found your channel on here and have already picked up on several items, including how to add widgets to my I-phone LOL!
Really like your teaching style, and am now a new subscriber. Thanks for taking the time to help others.
So glad that the series is already helping you - good timing! And thanks so much for subscribing.
Just got the app. Tuning into episode 1 and looking forward to the rest!
I'm looking forward to your insights. Thanks!
Great - thanks, Doug!
Just what i needed! Been totally lost for too long! Thank you
Thank you for this series, have always wanted to learn this app!
Perfect!
I just started watching your great PhotoPills series. Thank you very much for the great instructional videos, which are very beneficial and helpful. Good job.
Great idea for a series. Thanks.
You bet!
Best partner any photographer can buy.! Seriously 😊
Thank You Brenda
Great series to look forward to!!
Thanks, Helen! I'm so glad!
Thanks for the tutorials. You make it easier to understand! You earned yourself a sub
Looking forward to this series. Thanks for doing it. I used PhotoPills to plan the capture of the rising super-moon over a bridge in my city, a couple of months ago. I spent a lot of time trying to figure it out I eventually got it but it took a lot of work as the app is not very intuitive. I wish I had expended as much effort into the actual shot as the photo quality of the shot was mediocre. I was happy overall, with PhotoPills and look forward to mastering it and becoming more purposeful in my creativity. Thanks for sharing your talent, I always look forward to your videos.
Thanks so much, Scott! It will get easier - and thankfully, there will be more supermoons this year to keep practicing.
I really love you mini course called Friday. I use CZcams because I can stop and back up if needed. I expand the image on my 24" monitors.
Thanks for creating this! 😃
No problem!
Wow, just what I needed. Been looking at this app, but always been afraid to try.
You're not alone! I'm glad the videos are helpful.
I AM that person - have it on my iPhone but too intimidated to take the time to learn it. Thank you for this.
I was that person too, so I totally get it! Glad this can be of help.
Excellent! Thank you!
Most welcome!
The widget placement is soooooo handy I can't than you enough for the idea. I use an Android phone but that's no difference from an iPhone in term of the widget concept.
That's great to know - thanks!
Ok, I'm ready
Very nice style of presentation. Thanks.
Thank you, Brenda. Great course. Eye opening. Do you have any advice on how to clear the planner of the loaded plan, so we could see the map with todays date? Thanks
Fantastic Tutorial !!
Thank you for this. I didn't know iOS had widgets...
Yay - glad you learned something new!
Hi Brenda, love your content, much info that helps lot's of people. Question: I there a safe download for Photopills to be used on a Mac desktop? Thanks, Doug
Hi Brenda , Thanks for so many amazing videos . I need one clarification . When you are in photo pills app , on Hyper focal distance , augmented reality , how you hold your mobile ? vertical or horizontal . Titling the mobile , the semicircle showing DOF or Hyper focal distance appears changing .
I usually hold it in the vertical position because I find that easier to use with the hyperfocal distance AR. I would first orient your phone however you'd like, and then activate the AR.
I wish the focus length match could do 2 lenses too. So let's say, I could do the 24mm and the 200mm match. Because it's a zoom lens 😊
I am using a tablet. This so I can better see what is going on. In the planner your example show 11 white dots at the top but on either tablet I only get 6 white dots but on my cellphone I get all 11. My other problem is getting the widgets.
Thanks so much Brenda ..I am certainly going to start learning it for Astro and Milky Way photography ..Will I be able to use it in the S Hemisphere ..South Africa where I live. Is a good compass also worthwhile ??
Hi Peter - yes! PhotoPills can be used anywhere in the world. And some functions are available offline as well. A compass is a good idea - I have one on my iphone that works well. If I'm going to be in the backcountry and don't want to use my phone, then I carry a magnetic compass.
Photopills is such a complex app that I don't think you can watch too many videos - hopefully something will sink after lots of repetition! Brenda, I have enabled an overlay which shows up when I'm in planner view on the map. When I am in sunset/sunrise times (hours) a orange hue covers my map and during night time hours it goes dark with a blue hue - do you know how to turn this off?
Hi Jane! Yes... Tap the Map Settings button, next to the (+) map button. And turn off the Twilight map layer. Just tap on the eye icon next to the layer to switch if off. You can also do it by tapping the button on panel number 5 (above the map). It's the one showing the Civi, Nautical and Astronomical twilight times ;)
Thanks for replying!
Ok...it’s time to learn this app. Widgets loaded.
You got this! :)
They, PhotoPills, just did a lengthy session too if you have to seen it - on You Tube.
Yep! I was able to make the livestream. I told PhotoPills that I was making this series and they were on board. I feel like the more info that is out there, the better!
Brenda, thanks for a great series. I just got Photopills and am working my way thru all of the episodes. I may have missed one thing. If I am planning a shot in the planner for a location other than my current location and then I want to quickly go back to my current location in the planner, is there an easy way to do that without inputting the address or coordinates? Thanks again.
I'm jw if this app is just for taking pics with an actual camera or if you can use it for taking phone pics as well.
I have a quick question
I just get this app yesterday, and I have an iPhone 13 pro max. In this app show three different kind of iPhone 13 pro max camera, how I know which one is the correct one iPhone 13 pro max 13mm. 26mm and 77mm. Any advice? Thanks
Hello mem, hope all well
Mem M question is for vido purpose m using mrk4 canon with wide 14 mm samyung manual lens .I have focus problem in video spls in moving shoot .what should I do for continuing focus. For moving video pls suggest 🙏
I have a Samsung and that screen is not there? How can I access it? thanks
How do I enable widgets on android? Thanks.
Did you get a reply? I need that info as well.
Thumbs down. Where is he? I mean, how can you thumbs down this? Okay, you don't like it, which I don't get, but okay. But to actually down vote this? Takes all kinds I guess.
Thanks, Joel! Who knows - can't make everyone happy, right?
Any time you need to explain the name ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Thank you for sharing the app, as I try to take photographs of Moon, and with this app, it will be much easier once I master the App, with your help...
Check out my Channel, and let me know if you liked any of my contents and how I can improve my channel. As one of my friend #bmillermusic says *_"Our World is a Shared Experience"_* and as I said, *_Life is Short, so Live Long and Prosper_* Look after yourself and each other and Stay Safe.
Best of luck with your moon images!
@@outdoorphotographyschool7366
Thank you kindly...
Let me know if somewhere I can send you once I get some descent photos to share, but you can find some in my Instagram (if you have any spare time that is)... on the other hand, I probably will Tag you in my photos if that is OK by you!
Once again _Thank you very much from the bottom of my heart_
@@DawidhabdArup_N7 You bet! I'll see you on instagram :).
@Outdoor Photography School *_Much appreciated, and I will be honoured if you do... Look after yourself and each other & Stay Safe_*
Oh, little'n, i never thought i'd need so much tech to take a photo. I hope you got paid a princely sum for this unnecessary piece of software known to man. C'mon little'n, money's not everything.
I agree, there's a learning curve as there is with anything, especially photography. But, trust me, this app is worth it.
I'm not sponsored or paid a dime by PhotoPills to do this series. This is just me sharing what I know about this app that I have found to be very helpful in my own photography, and it took me a while to figure out. If you don't like PhotoPills or don't want to use it - then this series isn't for you - no hard feelings!
I agree!
That's why i love you Little'n, you're pure as the driven. Even though it's not for me, what i like is being informed and that's what you are doing here. I had no clue this was out there until your vid, so ignore my predudices, keep 'em coming and oh, by the way you know i'm the grumpy old Brit that fell in love with Vermont and Waterbury's ice cream factory.
@@robertstancer4469 Glad you're still with me! And we could all use a little Ben & Jerry's about now, eh?