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I'm going to be sharing with you seven top landscape photographers whose work I believe will help you improve your own landscape photography and certainly give you a wider appreciation of this genre Sebastio Salgado and I'm sure I pronounced that incorrectly because my Portuguese is not not particularly great and Might seem as as an odd choice as a top landscape photographer for me However, what I find is that because of his background in documentary photography It helps bring a sense of scale to his landscape photography, and that's always worth worth bearing in mind is that by including the human element into His photography and these tiny little figures almost feel like ants crawling across a landscape It reminds us that that the world that we inhabit is is Infantesimally larger than than us as as as the individual humans and and it helps bring a sense of wonder and awe to his landscape Photography if you're not familiar with his work I would highly recommend that you go out and check out his books workers and and Genesis Edward Weston was a contemporary of the Ansel Adams and a founder member of the influential group f64 Which was a very famous group of photographers in the 1930s a? Famous quote by Western said that the camera should be used as a recording for life for rendering the very substance and Contestants the thing itself being photographed whether it is polished steel or palpitating flesh the reason that Western features so low in this list of Landscape photographers is that he's primarily known for his studies of the shape and form of vegetables such as cabbages and peppers and also his his his nude studies and while he was a contemporary of Ansel Adams and there are many similarities between the two of theirs their work this this interest on on the part of Western for shape and form brings itself into his landscape photography and And I see that echoed when he's sort of picking up shape and form in in the landscape around him in a way that That the Adams somewhat probably didn't and this is what makes certainly Western's landscape photographer me feel more More real in a way and certainly more Dynamic and more fluid if you haven't checked out Western's work in the past We've not heard of them you will find all these these images about sort of peppers and what have you but I would encourage you to Go off and look a little bit further into this this fascinating photographer whose career of them for you was quite quite short Faye Godwin is an unusual photographer in so much as she is quite lauded within photographic circles But beyond those and that she isn't really known at all and I find this a great shame And and I wonder why this should be and possibly because first of all her her books have a More of a literary kind of feel to them that she works a lot with with with authors or she worked a lot with with authors And also that possibly the subject matter that she photographed which is which is the British Isles Isn't extreme. I think you know, it's if you think of the British Isles and certainly the landscape you think soft You think damp, you know, you think gray and and Faye was a master at elevating that into Something special that was enjoyed, you know, so looking at and and puts certainly myself into the image So I can almost feel that dampness creeping in into my bones And so yes, I say in this world of extremes her photography so sort of slipped underneath the radar If you get a chance to look at her in more depth I would certainly recommend that you look at some of her work where she is Exploring the juxtaposition of people's influence on the landscape, especially the British landscape where we have a Small crowded island and and people flock to the natural vistas and in doing so Ruin them by putting up caravan parks and and full labors full of trucks and cars and what have you and and Faye's work really Explores this this this sort of theme and and I would highly recommend that you seek out the book called land By Faye as a really good starting point an introduction to her photography Michael Kenner is a photographer whose work I have only come to recently myself I find this kind of unusual given that I really enjoy what I've seen of his work And and that he's been so prolific and for such a long time certainly since of the mid 80s So the fact that I'm only recently hearing of him is a huge failing on my part and hopefully You know, I can rectify this with with this video and hence why he's is included so high up In in my list is that I I absolutely enjoy his work And it reminds me so much of the things that that I love about photography and this is this manipulation of light, especially Michael's work has this kind of a serial quality Mostly because he is is is known apparently for quite long exposure. So so much upwards of sort of 10 hours and but also using Holger so these are these toy cameras that were quite prolific a number of years ago And this is all on film of course and and each Holger is unique and the way that it is so slap-dash put together That it goes that almost the complete opposite of somebody like, you know, the photographers of group f64 who were Obsessed with with technical excellence and technical precision and a whole good is is The antithesis of that and that's what I love about these these photographs is that it reminds us that the photography Isn't about the camera and it's not about the technique per se or the the the the the the championing of of technique But it's about Embracing the light for all of its its craziness So here we are at number three and of course the the granddaddy of landscape photography and Ansel Adams I'm gonna hold my hand up here at this this this section and I'm gonna say look I'm not a huge fan of of Ansel Adams's work. However, I do recognize his his massively influential Importance within photography as a whole not just not just in landscape photography And and I am indebted to him for sort of helping push the technical aspects of talking forward in in the early 20th century So that we were better able to create the visions that we have in inside our heads I'm thinking things like the zone system for example, which helped You know develop black and white of photography In the early days and taking it beyond the realm of pictorialism Most people are of course familiar with his work in Yosemite and Throughout Adams's career. He was very much in in touch with the landscape and and and felt that the landscape as as a concept with was very important and he was extremely influential in in the in the developing Sort of environmental movement in the early 20th century Obi-Wan Hauser is a South African photographer whose work is absolutely full of Color and and life and and and a real sense of mischief as well So often we think of landscape photography as being something that needs to be Slightly stayed so you just so standoffish and and hey look at me I'm very very posh and yet obi's work I think really sort of has a childlike sort of sense of wonder about it that that it's it's It's got this playful elements using sort of techniques that one is taught as a young photographer Like you're like using a torch to paint in various scenes in in in the in in the in the frame Using a long exposure and and a lot of obi's work sort of has this this sort of feel to it And I love the fact that that makes it Have an almost otherworldly sort of sense about it that I really enjoy looking at especially when there are scenes that are Familiar to me And in an everyday sort of context because having grown up in South Africa a lot of a lot of what I'd be photographs is is is somewhat familiar to me But the way that he reflects it back to to to myself as a viewer is is absolutely Grossing and I love the way that I can just almost feel This dust and and the heat and the craziness of Africa even though that now I live You know thousands of miles away from that and now someone who there's a grain block outside But this is the whole point is is photographs are Certainly from my perspective supposed to take us so much the most most minute make us feel something and nobody's work Certainly does that whenever I see it. I'm immediately transported back to my youth in South Africa go and look at more of his work if you if you get a transfer is so worth looking for and his his his Skills run beyond just landscape photography Portraits of people who he comes across in his travels and the text that obi puts with with his photography are well worth looking at And I would highly recommend that you Investigate some of this fantastic photographers work So here we are number one and that's Robert Adams and I absolutely adore Robert Adams's Photography his he is almost the yin to the yang of of over how to work in so much as his Photography is is quiet and it is Delicate and and it has nothing brash about it. It's technically it's shot in the midday Sun It's of fairly mundane subjects and environments There's nothing too much going on to the grand sweeping vistas like like Adams's Yosemite Valley images And yet if you look at them you spend time with them They start to speak their own stories to you and I love this about Robert Adams's work that he allows these everyday things to have their own voice to to to reach out and speak to you and For you to make your own decisions about them and and that's a really tricky thing I believe to get right and and Adams's work is a really good example of when it comes together That it's formed such a solid body of work He's most famous for his work done in sort of the Colorado Springs area Is on the mid 60s with lots of sort of building work going on But he is also influential in in a in a movement that was wider than just him And I would certainly I would I would link to all the information below in the comments But I would certainly recommend that if you are interested in this kind of photography that and look at his Work the new West and that's a really good Introduction into Bob Adams's work So there we go. So that was my top seven Favourite landscape photographers of all time and no doubt that there's now somebody furiously tapping But I don't like whether the people who you've included or you've included somebody who shouldn't been on there because they're not technically a Photographer and if you've got an opinion about something Let me know pop it in the comments below Even if you hated that and you said it's rubbish or if you'd never heard of one of these Photographers before and have been encouraged to go and seek them out. Please. Let me know as well I always love to get some feedback from you guys if you've enjoyed watching this video today Please do hit me up with a subscribe. I'd really appreciate it that way you won't get to miss any of these videos don't forget on Friday's I also release a Video highlighting one photographer from the great the great pants in the photographers and hopefully giving you a bit more In-depth insight into that photographer's work. 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