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    The document provides planning details for emulating the style of landscape photographer Andreas Gursky, known for his large-scale color photos featuring architecture, landscapes, and urban environments. Key aspects discussed include using a tripod and lower ISO/aperture settings to capture straight, symmetrical compositions of locations like parks and city streets from a elevated viewpoint. The photographer's most expensive photos have sold for millions, demonstrating his success working in a postmodern style.

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    The document provides planning details for emulating the style of landscape photographer Andreas Gursky, known for his large-scale color photos featuring architecture, landscapes, and urban environments. Key aspects discussed include using a tripod and lower ISO/aperture settings to capture straight, symmetrical compositions of locations like parks and city streets from a elevated viewpoint. The photographer's most expensive photos have sold for millions, demonstrating his success working in a postmodern style.

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    Planning Document

    ANDREAS GURSKY

    Discuss the techniques the photographer used to produce the images?

    *Landscape

    *Wide Depth of field

    *Symmetry composition

    *Balance composition

    *Straight lines

    How has the work been displayed on the website?

    *Quick slide show whit his gallery (Large images)

    *Caption and date in each images

    What can you learn from their portfolio?

    Landscape and architectural compositions, colour, scale, precision and straight lines.
    Featuring apartment blocks, skyscrapers, sports grounds, streets, squares, shops.
    Working exclusively in colour, the viewpoint used is always at a distance and slightly
    elevated from the front.

    He uses cranes and helicopters to take some of his pictures.


    Does the photographer belong to any movements in art or photography history?

    Most Expensive Photographs by Andreas Gursky

    The most expensive photo taken by Gursky, is Rhein II (1999), which sold for $4,338,500 at
    Christie's New York, in late 2011, confirming his status as one of the most successful
    postmodernist artists of the 21st century. Four years earlier, in February 2007, his image 99
    Cent II Diptychon (2001) was auctioned for $3,346,456 at Sotheby's London.

    List the camera settings you will use:


    -ISO
    -Sutter speed
    -Aperture

    Discuss the settings you will use and how they will help you emulate the photographer?
    -ISO 100 (if the day is sunny) 200 or 300( if the day is cloudy )
    -Sutter speed (1/250)
    -Aperture (f/8 to f/12)

    Identify at least two locations for your shoot:


    (Battersea Park) Lake, sport pitches.(Street) buildings, shops..
    Discuss these locations and how they will help you emulate the photographer?
    If I find a lake or River could have a good composition trying to get a scale composition and
    straight lines too.

    List the equipment you require:


    *Camera
    *SD card
    *Tripod
    Discuss the equipment and how it will help you emulate the photographer?
    I would like to bring a tripod, maybe if the day will be cloudy, I can lower the shutter speed.

    List the lighting you will require:

    Real light
    Discuss the lighting and how it will help you emulate the photographer?
    find a nice view in the right lighting.
    Dont shoot into the light always have the sun over your left shoulder

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