Before the shoot

5 guidesUpdated

In the order a shoot actually runs: find the place, read the sky, deal with the air, post the result, and a note on accounts at the end. Everything here works without buying extra software.

  1. 01

    How to find photo spots

    Contours tell you what's blocked, satellite images show the foreground, other people's frames give away where they stood. Then work back to a departure time.

  2. 02

    Reading weather for photography

    Cloud cover, cloud base, visibility, dew point spread and wind. Which ones decide the picture, and how to read a forecast that's only a probability.

  3. 03

    Air quality, haze and your photos

    How haze eats distant contrast, what to shoot instead on the day, and how much editing can win back.

  4. 04

    Posting in a photo community

    Titles, how much of the settings to share, whether to give away a location, and what you can do with other people's work.

  5. 05

    LCT accounts and sign-in

    How passwords are stored on the server, how sessions renew, and why the early one-time-code sign-in was taken out.

LCT isn't open to the public yet. The backend is running and serves content and location data to Mark, with no opening date. For a note when it opens, email donaldkuke@gmail.com.