Professional Architectural Photography, 3rd Edition

APPENDIX 1:‘SUN FINDER’ CHARTS

Introduction

These ingenious ‘sun finder’ charts on pp. 184–86 were originally published in The Professional Guide to Photo Data by Richard Platt (Mitchell Beazley, 1991). Incredibly, they enable you to find both the direction and elevation of the sun at any location between the Arctic and Antarctic circles, at any hour on any day of the year. Accordingly, they also show the times and directions of sunrise and sunset. Although the charts may look daunting, they are actually not difficult to use, especially if you require only approximate guidance.

To be able to estimate the direction and elevation of sunshine on a building at any particular time of day is of critical importance to the planning schedule of any architectural ...