![]() The short of it: Skyfire works well enough for my use as a professional photographer. Rachel Cohen has tested the app in Ann Arbor, Michigan, while Richard Wong uses the app in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. I’ve used Skyfire in both Orange and LA Counties, California as well as Seattle, Washington. While I don’t have hard stats from years of testing to document Skyfire’s accuracy, but I do have my own experience, and that of two other photographers in various locations around the US who’ve tried it. If you are deep in a valley you might not be able to see to the West, but if you’re on a mountain peak, you will know which direction works best. Meaning, it might be clear above you (no chance) but possibly red to the West. It should be noted, the overlay color show the area where the greatest chance for sky color will occur. White means there will be cloud cover but no colors, and you likely won’t even see the sunset or rise. In between are varying shades of blues to greens, and yellows to red. The scale then follows the colors of the rainbow, more or less, to show slim chance (lighter blue) to high chance (red). You’ll still see the sunset or sunrise at that location, but the odds are there will be no clouds to take on color. No color overlay means no chance color and clear skies (the bottom right corner in the example above). The Plus version (explained in a minute) is $14.99 for three months or $44.99 for a year. Skyfire’s subscriptions and prices are $9.99 for a three month Basic subscription, or $29.99 for a year. Correlating items like topography, cloud height and type, as well as gap light, (the amount of light coming in from under clouds that gives them their brilliant colors at sunset and makes it seem the sky is on fire, hence the name) Skyfire attempts to predict your odds of capturing beautiful sunset and sunrise colors in the clouds. ![]() It uses a combination of data from weather monitoring and prediction stations, currently only in the lower 48 US states (plus minute amounts of the Canadian and Mexican borders). Currently it only runs on TPE for iOS, but it will soon be ported over for Android as well. What is Skyfire?ĭeveloped by Matthew Kuhns and a team of photographers, Skyfire is a subscription service that runs exclusively on TPE. Skyfire is a subscription product from the makers of The Photographer’s Ephemeris (TPE) that uses a host of data to help predict the probability of desirable sky colors for beautiful photos. Skyfire attempts to do just that for you, in app-form of course. What if you could predict beautiful sunset or sunrise colors? The colors we dream of when the word sunset crosses our mind deep oranges, pinks, reds and streams of yellow, often against a deep blue sky. ![]()
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