Final Images - Liverpool a not so changing city

  

Liverpool City Centre past and present! It is only during the editing and compilation of these images that I have realised Liverpool hasn't changed a great deal. Road layouts and the introduction of many street sign being the most obvious, structurally, my images aren't that different to the images of Liverpool past. What is evident also, is that Liverpool city centre was as busy in years gone by as it is now - roads still bustle with people and cars. Overall i'm reasonably happy with these images, my intention when shooting (knowing that it would be difficult to obtain perfectly matched images due to the differences in cameras) was to keep specific pre-determined landmarks within the same points in  both past and present images.

The images are layed out the way they are due to the fact that my images are rectangular and the images from past Liverpool are more square, by staggering the layout I felt less attention was drawn to this fact.

Re-photography attempt 1

So, it turns out that finding old images of the Norris Green estate isn't that easy, especially in any great number. Therefore I have decided to move out of the area where I grew up and into the city centre of Liverpool. I have found a number of images online that I think will be suitable for me to re-photograph. But my first attempt at re-photographing hasn't been in Liverpool, I decided to test the process whilst I was in Chester, shooting my emulation project. I figured this would be good practice and I own a book that contains a lot of old pictures from Chester. 

The book!

My images

1900's/2012

Top image:1900's Bottom image:2012

1900's/2012

Top image:1900's Bottom image:2012

Top image:1900's Bottom image:2012

I decided to keep the modern day images in keeping with the old images therefore they are also black and white, I felt that by doing this, the viewer is  more inclined to give the images more thought as there is no immediate eye catcher (as there would be if one image was in colour.) I found alligning the images at the point of shooting was a little difficult, buildings don't move but they do change as do pavements and fixtures. I tried my best to combat this whilst shooting, but some cropping and rotating has been done in photoshop afterwards.