ShotScout
Scout the light.
AI-powered planning for outdoor portrait sessions — the right backdrop, at the right light, for the right subject. Plan your whole shoot day in minutes.
Seniors · Couples · Families · Maternity · Branding
Right backdrop.
Claude analyses color, texture, depth, and light across every scouted location to match your subject perfectly.
Right light.
Golden-hour windows, shadow math, live weather, and wind forecasts — per stop, per shoot day.
Right now.
One tap generates a gear-ready itinerary. Clients get a beautiful shareable plan before you arrive.
Every moving part of an outdoor shoot — handled.
Live weather watching, daylight-aware routing, and a client itinerary that makes you look premium before you arrive.
Wind is the silent session-killer. We see it coming.
ShotScout pulls minute-granular Open-Meteo forecasts, weighs gusts against your subject's wind sensitivity — flowing fabric, long hair, veils, young kids — and auto-flags stops before they become problems.
- Per-subject gust thresholds (8 mph for veils; 15 mph for a polo)
- Mid-shoot "reroute to sheltered alt" suggestions
- 24-hour pre-shoot recheck with push alert if the plan needs to shift
Be at the right spot the moment the light peaks.
The planner orders your day around real driving times (OSRM), parking buffers, and minute-accurate golden-hour windows per stop. Every backdrop has a color-coded peak window — so you spend the 18 minutes of perfect light at the spot that needs it most.
- Live drive times, not straight-line estimates
- Obstruction-aware sunrise/sunset per stop
- Golden-hour-first ordering; sheltered fallbacks ready
Send your clients a beautiful plan before you arrive.
Every shoot plan gets a shareable public link and a downloadable PDF. Your clients see stops, timing, and what to wear — not camera settings or internal scoring. It makes you look incredibly prepared. Because you are.
- One-tap share link (no account needed for clients)
- Branded PDF you can email or text
- Auto-updated if the shoot gets rerouted
Every backdrop, deeply understood
Three quick captures — wide, standard, detail — and Claude does the rest. Color palette, texture frequency, depth profile, subject placement recommendations, bounce light, wind shelter, access notes, and usable hours based on real sun obstructions.
- 80+ AI-analysed fields per location
- EXIF-driven GPS, heading, and timing data
- Private to you, or shared with the community
- Seasonal tracking — know when each spot peaks
Plan around the sun, not the calendar
Minute-accurate sun azimuth and altitude at every stop. Shadow length and direction for a 1.75m subject at shoot time. Moon phase for late-afternoon sessions. Obstruction-aware effective sunrise and sunset — because the horizon isn't always where the sun disappears.
The Daylight Simulator lets you scrub through the day with a five-layer canvas compositor: directional light, altitude intensity, color temperature, obstruction shadow, and overcast diffusion — real-time preview of how your backdrop will look at any moment.
From subject photo to shot list
Upload the subject. ShotScout matches their palette to your scouted backdrops, picks the best stops by visual match + light + wind, and routes the day with real OSRM drive times. Per-stop camera body, lens, ISO, aperture, shutter, white balance, AF mode, metering mode, and a depth-of-field readout.
Generate a PDF itinerary, share a public link with your client, and tap into Live Shoot Mode when the weather shifts mid-session.
Built for outdoor portrait photographers
Every feature is tuned to the realities of shooting people outside — light, wind, access, timing, and the tiny weather windows that make or break a session.
Pick your plan
Start free. Upgrade when you're ready to level up your shoots.
- 1-shot scouting (Standard only)
- Community backdrop uploads
- Browse community pool
- Up to 5 active subjects
- Full 3-shot guided capture
- Private backdrops
- Gear profiles (bodies, lenses, accessories)
- Up to 25 active subjects
- Basic review (star ratings)
- Everything in ShotScout+
- Full shoot plan engine
- Daylight Simulator
- Proactive daily alerts + custom rules
- Live Shoot Mode with reroute
- Client-facing itineraries + share links
- Unlimited subjects
A growing network of scouts
Every dot is a real backdrop photographed on a real shoot — AI-analysed and ready to plan around.
Loved by portrait photographers
I used to spend hours planning a single senior session. ShotScout cuts that to minutes — and the AI backdrop picks are genuinely better than mine.
The weather rerouting alone is worth it. No more burning golden hour in terrible light because a storm showed up halfway through a couple's session.
My clients love the itineraries. Showing up with a plan that already knows where the light will be makes me look incredibly prepared.
Show up ready to make the shot.
Stop guessing where the light will fall. Let ShotScout plan the whole day around it.