Keld Helmer- Petersen

Keld Helmer- Petersen was a Danish photographer who took abstract photos for his career. He was inspired by Albert Renger- Patzsch and achieved fame for his colour photographs. He typically took his photographs in daylight. His images had strong tone with light and dark contrasting each other. Peterson was thought to be very fond of line as it is the majority of his work. He also used a lot of patterns.

My interpretation..

After researching about Helmer- Petersen and taking influence from his photography pieces i have chosen four abstract images i have previously taken to edit on Photoshop. In order to edit my images to make them look similar to Helmer- Petersen’s, i have adjusted the threshold, by selecting ‘ adjustments’ after uploading my previous image to Photoshop. I then adjusted the threshold until i was happy with the contrasted image.

 

 

My final piece 

For my final pieces, i have made my images heavily contrasted using Photoshop as well as removing all the mid tones and i think they have turned out very successful. Because of the bird cage i have used for two of the pics has the cage effect, this has created the ‘line effect’ that Helmer- Petersen was known to be fond of. I also think that because there was an original reflection of the spoons in the first image it has helped to add more shadowing to the image as well as adding more depth.