- Open the Images
- Image/Adjustments/Threshold
- Choose the level of threshold you find suitable for the image
- I chose these images of hands and people jumping in the sea and put them in a grid for comparison
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Keld Helmer Petersen
Keld Helmer-Petersen (20 August 1920 – 6 March 2013) was a Danish photographer who achieved his international breakthrough in 1948 when he published 122 Farvefotografier/122 Colour Photographs, a collection of experiments with shapes inspired by Albert Renger Patzsch. Keld Helmer-Petersen’s 122 Farvefotografier was published in 1948, it is a photobook of great singularity. The book gained an idea of just how unusual it was to use color for art photographs at that time. However, as well as Helmer-Petersen’s innotive work in colour photogrpahy he also has explored some creative and abstract black and white photography.
Inspired by his work I used Photoshop to re-create photos similar to his black and white ones. I used the threshold tool to create a similar look and then adjusted the slider to add more or less black and whites.
These are the unedited images I used to create my work influenced by Helmer Petersen.
Keld Helmer-Petersen
Keld Helmer-Petersen
Helmer-Peterson produced large bodies of work in which he presented his images as the black and white extremities of the tones of his subject. This gave his work a bold and considerably minimalist style. Many of his subjects were based around a theme of industrialisation and architecture. The lack of any tones between black and white mean that the viewer is able to quickly interpret what the image is putting forwards without any unnecessary distraction.
My Response To Helmer-Petersen’s work
I produced this response simply in Photoshop using the threshold tool and adjusting it to a point where i believed it looked as aesthetically pleasing as possible. Then compiling the 4 edited images into 1 document in which the compliment one another.