Features

One list in. The whole shoot day out.

You keep one document up to date: the shot list. Latentshoot reads your running order, your daylight, your kit list and your call sheet off it, working them out fresh every time. There is no second copy to fall out of step with the first.

Start free See pricing

No card. One active shoot is free for as long as you want it.

Latentshoot’s kit list for a shoot day, worked out from the shots: bodies, lenses and lighting grouped by category, each line marked with the shot numbers that put it on the list, next to a separate list of what still needs to be hired. — Nobody typed this list. Give a shot a body, a focal length or a kind of lighting and the line turns up here, still pointing back at the shot that needs it. Drop the shot and the line goes with it.

How the parts connect

Four things you never keep up to date yourself.

A shoot in Latentshoot starts as a moodboard and a shot list. The shot list is the one thing you keep current: what you are photographing, where, with what, and how long you think each frame takes. Everything after that is read off it — the schedule lays the shots over a call time and the real daylight for the location and date; the kit list collects up the bodies, lenses and lighting the shots ask for; the call sheet assembles the schedule and the people on the job into one document. Then on set, marking a shot done feeds how long it really took back into that same schedule, and the rest of your day is worked out again from what actually happened rather than what you guessed.

None of it is a second copy. A start time, a group’s letter, a gear line, a call time: each one is worked out fresh from what sits underneath it. That is the only way four documents stay honest about one day.

The four parts

Take them one at a time.

The shot list

What you are photographing, its spec, and how long you think it will take. The one thing you keep up to date.

Schedule & daylight

Your running order, laid over the real sunrise, sunset and golden hour for that place and date.

The call sheet

Unit call, each person’s call time and the running order, built from the schedule you already have.

On set

Mark shots done from your phone with no signal at all. The rest of the day re-times itself around what really happened.

Two ways to cut the same list, and they do different jobs

A group holds each shot once, and your groups run in the order you shoot them: feed room, then stable, then ridden. That is what makes the list read like the shape of your day. Tags work differently — they cut across the groups, so you can re-sort the same list into a client’s delivery folder or a product line without moving a single shot.

An unreachable golden hour is shown, not hidden

Latentshoot works golden hour out from where the location sits on the map, the date, and the local time there. Nothing for you to look up, and no second app to check it against. Pin a shot to it and the day protects that slot for you. If the morning has already run long, you see how many minutes short you are, right on the row, instead of a schedule that quietly looks fine.

What Latentshoot does not do.

Worth knowing before you sign up. Latentshoot has no enquiries, bookings, contracts, invoices or client galleries, so whatever you use for those carries on doing it. And there is nothing anywhere in Latentshoot for moving image: no frame rate, no camera movement, no storyboards. Stills only, on purpose.

Latentshoot is new, so there is no customer list to point at. That is why this page and the four behind it show you how it works — a screen you can look at, a number you can check — rather than asking you to take somebody else’s word for it.

Questions

About Latentshoot overall

Do I have to use all four parts?

No. Plenty of shoots only ever need the shot list and the call sheet. The other two are there because the same list already contains what they need — a schedule and a kit list cost you nothing extra once the shots are written down.

Is the schedule a booking calendar for clients?

No. It is the running order for a day you are already booked to shoot, not a calendar for taking new bookings. If you need appointment scheduling for enquiries, that is a different tool and Latentshoot does not try to be it.

Can a client or crew member see any of this without an account?

Yes. A share link opens with no login at the other end, for whichever parts you choose to send — the moodboard, the shot list, the schedule or the call sheet — and whoever opens it can read it but not change it. A live, updating "where we are" link is part of the Studio plan; your own on-set mode is not, and works on the free plan too.

What does Latentshoot not do?

No enquiries, bookings, contracts, invoices or client galleries — Latentshoot is not a CRM, and starts where those stop. And there is nothing for moving image anywhere in it: no frame rate, no camera movement, no storyboards. Stills only, on purpose.

Start with the list you were going to write anyway.

Give it a title, a size and a duration, and everything else on this page starts working your day out for you.

Start free Read the guides

No card, no call. Free covers one active shoot and every part of the day works on it.