In this blog post I am trying to mimic the style of Keld Helmer-Petersen. Helmer-Petersen is most famous for his dramatic use of black and white features, where he explored dramatic contrast of tones.

Keld Helmer-Petersen was a Danish photographer who achieved widespread international recognition in the 1940s and 1950s for his abstract colour photographs. He was born in Denmark on 20th August  1920, and died 6th March 2013

Here is some of his work.

As you can see there is a massive contrast between the extreme white, and dark black within the colours.

I have tried to recreate his take on photography by using the  change on threshold within Photoshop, I feel I did really well with this task, I did two different sheets for this, each with 4 photos. My first attempt was an all natural version, with a Flamingo, some wood, a Lemur and a Whippet. I feel this went really well

My second attempt was more of a man made version, with a Climbing frame for Orangutans, the side of a building, a glass bottle within a wall, and an old hook for a large gate.

Personally I felt this was even better than my natural one as I found the perfect threshold for the contrasting tone, much like Helmer-Petersen.