OLD and NEW

Looking north on 5 Street - Old Post Card - Courtesy of Galt Museum and Archives

Looking north on 5 Street - Unedited capture

Final Image

So to keep the skills up I saw an image in an article on my iPad one night where a person took an old photo and held it up and took a picture of the same building and somehow matched it up.  Seeing as Lethbridge is full of historical buildings and events around these buildings I have decided to take on a project to combine old photos with the new ones of today.  I have posted several already and found it to be a great way to improve basic camera and editing skills.  It really teaches a person to 1. slow down to think on how the original person composed the image and where a bouts the image was taken and 2.  blend the original into the new to make it look ascetically pleasing to the eye.  Editing these pictures really hammers home the basic functions of photoshop ex masking, perspective, colour correction etc.


This project is, and turning out to be, a great way to look back and to think what were these people doing during that day.  The above image was my first kick at it.  I like the scene of the people bustling about doing their business.  It brings a bit of warmness back to 5 Street; friendly even, like everyone knew each other.  


As I work on the pictures I will post them within the Old and New Album.