Keld Helmer Petersen was a Danish abstract colour photographer. In the 1940’s and 50’s he captured an array of images which were purely in black and white, without any mid tones. Two books, Black Noise and Black Light, would then be published featuring these images.
I have tried to capture the essence of Petersen’s images by editing my images in Photoshop and primarily using the ”Threshold” image adjustment tool.
To Convert the image into black and white, I would first use the ‘black and white’ colour altering tool (this would still keep mid-tones). Afterwards I would use the ‘Threshold’ tool to remove mid-tones.
A couple other images I have altered in the same way are:
