Using Weather to Your Creative Advantage
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Everybody waits for perfect weather.
You'll learn to read it coming.
About the Course
Weather isn't something you wait around for and hope it cooperates — it's one of the most powerful creative tools you've got, and most folks never use it. Rick Sammon and meteorologist Mike Caplan team up to fix that. They'll show you how to read the sky, see the light coming before it gets there, and turn fog, snow, rain, and big dramatic clouds into images people stop and stare at. You'll get the whole thing — composition, exposure, staying safe out there, the right gear, and how to finish it all in Lightroom and Photoshop.
Why This Course Matters
Most of us treat weather like a coin flip — show up, cross our fingers, take what we get. This course flips that.
Once you can read a cloud and know what's coming, you stop reacting and start planning. And here's the best part: you'll learn to find the shot hiding inside the conditions — because the images you're proudest of almost always come from the weather everybody else walked away from.
Who's Teaching You
This is the rare course where you get both the art and the science of light — a legendary shooter and a working TV meteorologist, teaching you to read the same sky from two expert angles.
Award-winning photographer Rick Sammon is one of the most active shooters on the planet. With over 40 years of experience, he divides his time between creating images, teaching, leading workshops, and making appearances.
Mike Caplan is a distinguished American meteorologist and TV personality, best known for his dynamic weather reporting on FOX 32 Chicago — and a seriously talented photographer. Decades in broadcast have made him a trusted, accurate read on the sky.
What You'll Learn
From reading the forecast to the final edit — here's what you'll walk away with.
Decode cloud types to predict the light, with Rick's "one-picture promise" and satellite tricks for timing sunrise and sunset.
Windy, radar, NOAA, and PhotoPills — the weather and photo tools worth trusting, plus Rick's full northern-lights settings.
Compose for fog, snow, and rain instead of fighting them — because "a dry rock is a dead rock."
Read sneaker waves, tides, and desert heat, then pack the rain covers, cold-weather battery tricks, and layers that keep you in the field.
Rick's pre-trip workflow for building backup plans around the forecast — chasing light, not luck, in practice.
Rescue flat skies with texture and clarity, then transform ordinary shots with sky replacement — real edits, start to finish.
The Full Curriculum
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Why weather belongs at the center of your process, and how a photographer and a meteorologist read the same sky differently.
How weather shapes mood, color, and story — why dramatic light beats flat, and how to expose so the sky carries the image.
Decode cloud types to predict the light before it arrives, with Rick's "one-picture promise" and satellite tricks for timing sunrise and sunset.
The weather and photo apps worth trusting — Windy, radar, NOAA, PhotoPills — plus Rick's full northern-lights settings.
Fog, snow, and rain as narrative: compose for the weather you have and stop fighting conditions. "A dry rock is a dead rock."
Sneaker waves, tides, and desert heat — how to read the risks and come home with the photo and yourself intact.
Rain covers, weather-sealed lenses, cleaning, cold-weather battery tricks, and the gloves, boots, and layers that keep you in the field.
Rick's pre-trip workflow for building backup plans around the forecast — chasing light, not luck, in practice.
A stormy cheetah shoot and a brutal Antarctica expedition prove the best images come from the hardest conditions.
Rescue flat skies with texture and clarity, and transform ordinary shots with sky replacement — real edits, start to finish.
Closing habits of great weather photographers: study the light, respect the sky, and know when to skip the shot.
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