Photography Tutorial · 2018-10-14

Don't Know How to Shoot Without Red Clouds? Try Following These 3 Landscape Photographers~

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Landscape photography doesn't only produce masterpieces when the sky is full of red clouds. On rainy days, hazy days, cloudless days, and so on — if you can accurately grasp the photo's atmosphere, you can still shoot wonderful works.

Today Thomas will share 3 landscape photographers active on the photo platform Instagram. They have different styles and excel at expressing photo emotions under other weather conditions — worth following!

Christophe Jacrot

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Christophe Jacrot is a French man in his 50s, extremely skilled at shooting works in rain and snow. As a former film director, his photography has a unique perspective and a very strong sense of immersion.

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Speaking of how he started shooting rain specifically, there's an interesting story. Christophe once received a commercial assignment to shoot a set of sunny tourist promotional images for Paris, France. Unexpectedly, the weather during the shoot was so bad that he had to submit a portfolio full of rain and fog — and unexpectedly, this also brought inspiration to his future photography path.

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The bad weather let him discover the different beauty of rainy days, and also reminded him of the works of masters like Henri Cartier-Bresson and Elliott Erwitt.

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From then on, he focused his gaze on weather everyone considers bad, specifically shooting environmental works under rain.

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Later he expanded his portfolio to fog and snow days, equally distinctive.

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His works give people a strong sense of being there, as if readers are walking on a street with biting cold wind, or sitting in a car in pouring rain, witnessing the scene at that moment.

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Ben Thomas

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Ben Thomas is an Australian photographer and visual artist. His works are highly recognizable, with a surreal, intense "candy color palette."

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His works are mainly shot in broad daylight, and quite a few are shot at noon.

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His choice of sky also leans toward cloudless clear days or days with few clouds, to create large areas of unified color blocks.

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Ben is one of the 2018 Hasselblad Masters winners, and also plans to visit Shanghai in a few weeks for new creations.

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Rohan Reilly

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Rohan Reilly is a photographer from Ireland. His personal style is deeply influenced by British black-and-white master Michael Kenna and renowned Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto.

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His works lean toward minimalism, greatly simplifying the frame to basic textures, patterns, and lines.

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Besides post-processing methods, the choices made in shooting are also extremely important for building the atmosphere of his works.

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He prefers shooting on overcast, rainy, and foggy days. Under these weather conditions, the clean sky and hazy atmosphere let him focus more on shaping tones and textures.

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His works are clean and tidy yet full of emotion, embodying a beauty of simplicity.

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Other photographer works recommendations:

"The 5 Landscape Photographers Most Worth Following on 500px"

"The Masterpieces You Watch Every Day Are Actually Just the Tip of the Iceberg of Landscape Photography"

"The Best Style Is the Extreme — 4 Niche Landscape Photographers Worth Following"

If you want to learn about more photographers of various styles,

you can visit my Instagram homepage @thomaschuphoto and check my follow list~

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All images used in this article are cited from the photographers' Instagram homepages

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