Photopills for saving photo locations

Saturday 26 August 2023, 14:07 by Nando Harmsen | 3,994 views | 6 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

You probably know Photopills. It is a brilliant, comprehensive app that lets you plan a landscape photo in extreme detail. But did you know you can also find photo locations with this app? That is often overlooked.

Do you take landscape photos? Or photos of the Milky Way? Then you know that Photopills is an app that lets you very easily find the best photo location in the landscape. Most people only use a fraction of what the app can do.

To help you find your way around Photopills, you will soon be able to take a course at Photofacts Academy. But I already want to tell you that Photopills can also be used to save your own list of photo locations. Or you can find interesting locations in the app.

Have you found an interesting place? Then you can save it as a Point Of Interest. A POI. Once you have found such a point, place your pin there, select Save As... and choose Point of Interest. Give it a name and an icon, and it will be added to your list.

If you are in a beautiful place, save it as a POI. You can do that in Photopills
You can also take a smartphone photo and attach it to this point. Add some notes, and you can create a list of places where you can take beautiful photos. You can find this list under My Stuff and Points of Interest.

In addition to your own list, the Points of Interest page also contains the Map option. Tap it, and you will see a list of locations included with the app by default. The list covers the whole world, making it a great starting point for finding new places.

Zoom in on the country where you are and choose the most interesting icon or the place closest to you. You will see the coordinates and the name. If you click on the name, you will also get information about this object.

Photopills also gives you a list of POIs. This lets you discover new places too.
This way, you can save a useful list of Points of Interest and find new places as well. You also have immediate access to all the tools in Photopills to create a detailed plan for your photo.

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Nando Harmsen has been photographing for more than 40 years. He specialises in wedding photography and landscape photography. Nando also gives talks, workshops, masterclasses and photo trips, and regularly reviews new and interesting equipment.

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6 comments

Ria Bouma wrote on Tuesday 29 August 2023 at 11:05 | reply
Hi Nando,
How great that we can expect the Photopills course soon! I’m looking forward to it, because I’ve been "struggling" with the ins and outs for a while now
Best regards Ria Bouma
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Wim Grasdijk wrote on Tuesday 29 August 2023 at 12:20 | reply
Hello Nando,
I am very interested in the Photopills course.
Looking forward to it.
Regards Wim Grasdijk
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guest wrote on Wednesday 30 August 2023 at 00:03 | reply
Hi Nando,
It's great that there is now truly good Dutch-language information about PhotoPills.
Finally, I can discover even more possibilities.
Greetings,
Truus de Brouwer
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Chantal wrote on Wednesday 30 August 2023 at 14:40 | reply
Hello Nando,

I am really looking forward to this course,
there is so much in the app that it is always better to be able to read a clear and easy-to-understand explanation
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Martin wrote on Thursday 31 August 2023 at 18:35 | reply
Wow, really great, a course about PhotoPills.
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Marcel wrote on Friday 1 September 2023 at 21:17 | reply
Yes, I'm curious too, because I don't use nearly everything
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