Black Light
Keld Helmer-Petersen
Keld Helmer-Petersen was a Danish photographer who had many achievements which one of them was an international breakthrough in 1948. He was inspired by Albert Renger-Patzsch's work with all the collections of experiments that he had done with shapes, and also the experiments of the poetic realism of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement. Keld Helmer-Petersen has achieved many for his work, on colour photographs but he had also published books of black and white images which explore different meanings and tone. Within some of the books the images have only been presented in black and white which Keld Helmer-Petersen had removed all the mid tones. What I love about the pages of his books are that they aren't full or empty, they don't have a lot of writing on them which makes it look more beautiful. Either having a blank page with a few bits of the image which is in black or having a full page with a lot of black in the image and the fact that you do not know what the actual is, is just amazing.
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With the first set of images that I have taken within the school ground I have decided to see how they look when you convert them, using the threshold tool. Well at first what I have done is, I have changed all of my images into black and white, which will get rid of all of the colour and leave the image with a black, white and grey looking image. Then by using the threshold tool I was able to get rid of the grey and leaving the image with just a black and white image. By doing this I was able to create two types of images that doesn't look nothing alike meaning that you probably wouldn't probably realise what the actual image is and how it looks like when you take the image. The thing I love about this is that if I went and showed the pictures that I had created to someone else without showing that actual image I don't think they would know what the image is.
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Response #1
Digital Book
For today's lesson we was set to make an A2 book, to help us out sir gave us this video to guide us through the process of making the A2 book that had 8 sides. Then with Chantay we went out to the school ground and took some pictures that will link to our photographers work and focused on things that will turn out either mostly black or mostly white or even a mixture. Using these images I able to use photoshop and to remove some of the mid tones of the image. After that was completed I had printed them out the size of the book and started laying them out around the book, trying to figure out which picture should go with which. Should I put one image on both of the pages or put them on a single page, or should I put them upside down, vertical or even horizontal? But within some pages I decided to put mostly black onto one page and on the other mostly white.
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