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Find spots
Time the light
Plan the drive
Track aurora
Sample shoot plan
What you see on a spot
Aurora window. Real spots use that place.
Golden hour
6:48 – 7:36 AM
Blue hour
5:52 – 6:18 AM
Aurora tonight
Oval + chance on the map
Route
Spots along the drive
What LensScape does
Stop guessing the spot, the light, and the drive
A free app for finding photo spots and studios worldwide, planning golden and blue hour, and checking tonight’s aurora on the map. One place for the shot, instead of a pile of pins.
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Plan the shoot in a sentence
No dials, no tables. One sentence, and the plan is built.
Your location scout. Tell it the shot. It scouts the spots and builds the plan, with real LensScape spots you can edit and save.
Sunday day trip Lisbon to Sintra, sunrise start, palaces and coast
Here’s a sunrise route with 3 stops.
Trip · Draft · Sun, Nov 1
Updated · 1 change
Lisbon → Sintra
50 min drive · 4 stops
1
Miradouro da Senhora do Monte
Sunrise
City and river in the first light
7:10 AM
2
Quinta da RegaleiraNEW
Golden hour
Wells and gardens in low sun
7:55 AM
3
Belém Tower
Golden hour
Stone and water before the crowds
8:50 AM
4
Cabo da Roca
Daylight
Cliffs that take harder light
9:35 AM
Route: estimate
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Add a garden
Added Quinta da Regaleira before Belém Tower.
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Find the spot
Stop hunting random pins
A map pin is not a photo spot. LensScape places come with photos, the location, and directions, so you can tell if the shot is worth the trip before you leave.
Golden & blue hour
Know the light before you leave
The window is short, and arriving late means missing it. Today’s golden and blue hour are free on every spot, with sunrise and sunset for that exact pin.
Golden & blue hour
Today’s window on every spot.
Sunrise & sunset
Exact times for that pin.
Check today’s light
Golden hour vs blue hour
Example morning
How a sunrise shoot reads
Illustrative times. Open a real spot for today’s window at that exact place.
Blue hour
5:52 – 6:18 AM
Cool, even sky
Sunrise
6:18 AM
Sun clears the horizon
Golden hour
6:48 – 7:36 AM
Warm, low light
Midday
12:40 PM
Harsh — usually skip
Shadow tracker
See where the shade will fall
In a city, the building across the street can eat the light before you arrive. Drag the time and watch real footprints cast the shade, so you know if the facade is still in sun.
Real footprints
Buildings on the map, not a guess.
Any hour today
From golden hour through midday.
Find a spot
Plan with the light
Today
Sunrise 6:02 AM · Sunset 7:50 PM
Now
5:48 PM
Golden hour
5:30 AM
8:30 PM
ALTITUDE
20.0°
AZIMUTH
266° W
SHADOW (1 M)
2.7 m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Shadow
Aurora tracker
Don’t drive out on a maybe
Tonight’s oval, chance, Kp, and clouds sit on the map with the photo spots underneath. Go when the lights and the sky line up, and stay home when they don’t.
Live aurora zone
Tonight’s forecast band on the map.
Chance, Kp, clouds
On the spot, before you leave.
Open the map
Aurora tracker guide
Tonight’s aurora oval
Photo spot under the oval
Grótta Lighthouse
Reykjavík, Iceland
64%
Chance
5.3
Kp
12%
Clouds
Routes
Plan the drive, not a list of pins
The best frames are often the ones you would drive past. Set a start and a destination, and LensScape lines up photo spots along the road so you can add the stops worth making.
Drive order
Add, reorder, and save the trip.
Beside the road
Look 5, 15, or 30 km off the route.
Plan a route
How to use routes
Kyoto to Nara
Stop along the drive
Fushimi Inari
Blue hour · 5:52 AM
2 min off the drive
More ways to shoot
When the shoot is indoors, or you need more than today
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Phone to Widescreen Web
Plan at home. Shoot from your phone.
Lay out the trip on a full-screen web map, then open the same spots, light, and route on your iPhone when you are on site.