Editing

After shooting my images I had to obviously combine my own photography with the archive images. To do this I decide to use Adobe photoshop and a series of masks.

Using layer masks allowed me to paint out areas of the archive images that I didn't want in my final image. In some of the images I had to use perspective warp to get the archive images to line up properly with my own images. I wanted to get them as close as possible as the point of my project was to show how little the exteriors have changed!

Once I had my images placed in photoshop and I had masked out everything I decided to import them into Adobe Lightroom and get them looking the way I wanted. I wanted to add a slightly aged tint to the whole image and have them quite contrasty.

Overall I'm really happy with the look of my images, I think they fit quite well into my initial ideas and I'm pleased I managed to get 6 images done as I initially struggled finding 6 locations to photograph.