'Then and Now' - The Hollywood Freeway - Fifty Years - 1956/2006

Gary Edstrom wrote:
Today is one of those rare, ultra-clear days in the Los Angeles area. I
decided to go out and try to duplicate a few old pictures from my
father's slide collection. Here is my first attempt:

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Ho...At_Vermont.JPG

This is looking northwest on the Hollywood Freeway from the Vermont
Avenue overpass. This is just northwest of downtown Los Angeles. The
upper picture was taken fifty years ago in 1956 by my father. The lower
picture was taken today by me.

It was a little difficult to register the two pictures because there are
so few objects that exist in both pictures to use as reference points.
This area has seen a lot of change.

You did a nice job, tho. Is it possible that your Dad's lens was a tad
longer than the one you used? What elevation?

--
John McWilliams

Gary Edstrom wrote:
Today is one of those rare, ultra-clear days in the Los Angeles area. I
decided to go out and try to duplicate a few old pictures from my
father's slide collection. Here is my first attempt:

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Ho...At_Vermont.JPG

Very cool! I took a crack at aligning things more closely:
http://mike.russell-home.net/tmp/LaFreeway/
--
Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com/forum/

"Mike Russell" -MOVE wrote in message
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Gary Edstrom wrote:
Today is one of those rare, ultra-clear days in the Los Angeles area.
I
decided to go out and try to duplicate a few old pictures from my
father's slide collection. Here is my first attempt:

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Ho...At_Vermont.JPG

Very cool! I took a crack at aligning things more closely:
http://mike.russell-home.net/tmp/LaFreeway/
--
Interesting that the comparison doesn't seem to work in Firefox - works in
IE. I found a similar Then and Now book on Pompei back in 2000 on a trip to
Italy. When doing a video, my partner took images of the T&N pages then
faded the old into the new for a really great effect for the video of that
part of the trip.

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iws wrote:
"Mike Russell" -MOVE wrote in message
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Gary Edstrom wrote:
Today is one of those rare, ultra-clear days in the Los Angeles area.
I
decided to go out and try to duplicate a few old pictures from my
father's slide collection. Here is my first attempt:

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Ho...At_Vermont.JPG
Very cool! I took a crack at aligning things more closely:
http://mike.russell-home.net/tmp/LaFreeway/
--
Interesting that the comparison doesn't seem to work in Firefox - works in
IE. I found a similar Then and Now book on Pompei back in 2000 on a trip to
Italy. When doing a video, my partner took images of the T&N pages then
faded the old into the new for a really great effect for the video of that
part of the trip.



Works for me in Firefox 2.

Nice comparison!
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Gary Edstrom wrote:
On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:37:22 -0800, John McWilliams
wrote:


Gary Edstrom wrote:

Today is one of those rare, ultra-clear days in the Los Angeles area. I
decided to go out and try to duplicate a few old pictures from my
father's slide collection. Here is my first attempt:

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Ho...At_Vermont.JPG

This is looking northwest on the Hollywood Freeway from the Vermont
Avenue overpass. This is just northwest of downtown Los Angeles. The
upper picture was taken fifty years ago in 1956 by my father. The lower
picture was taken today by me.

It was a little difficult to register the two pictures because there are
so few objects that exist in both pictures to use as reference points.
This area has seen a lot of change.

You did a nice job, tho. Is it possible that your Dad's lens was a tad
longer than the one you used? What elevation?


My dad had an old Argus C-3. One thing I have noticed in almost all of
the pictures from his camera is the vignetting at the corners. I can
see that I missed a good registraion point in the pictu The grating
on the righ-hand side of the picture. It appears in both the old and
new. If I had seen that and had used a tripod, it probably would have
matched them better.

C-3! That was a great old camera. I have a circa-1956-model "brick" sitting in
the closet... keep meaning to pull it out and shoot some B&W with it. Argus was
renowned in their day for their quality optics - it's a 50mm f/3.5 lens that
works beautifully... as long as the rangefinder is aligned properly to allow you
to focus!

Mike Russell wrote:
Gary Edstrom wrote:
Today is one of those rare, ultra-clear days in the Los Angeles area. I
decided to go out and try to duplicate a few old pictures from my
father's slide collection. Here is my first attempt:

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Ho...At_Vermont.JPG

Very cool! I took a crack at aligning things more closely:
http://mike.russell-home.net/tmp/LaFreeway/

Something interesting is that the shape of of the hills in the distance
has changed, and the area to the right where the onramp joins the
freeway seems to have been lowered.

Matt Ion wrote:
Gary Edstrom wrote:
On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:37:22 -0800, John McWilliams
wrote:


Gary Edstrom wrote:

Today is one of those rare, ultra-clear days in the Los Angeles
area. I
decided to go out and try to duplicate a few old pictures from my
father's slide collection. Here is my first attempt:

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Ho...At_Vermont.JPG

This is looking northwest on the Hollywood Freeway from the Vermont
Avenue overpass. This is just northwest of downtown Los Angeles. The
upper picture was taken fifty years ago in 1956 by my father. The
lower
picture was taken today by me.

It was a little difficult to register the two pictures because there
are
so few objects that exist in both pictures to use as reference points.
This area has seen a lot of change.

You did a nice job, tho. Is it possible that your Dad's lens was a
tad longer than the one you used? What elevation?


My dad had an old Argus C-3. One thing I have noticed in almost all of
the pictures from his camera is the vignetting at the corners. I can
see that I missed a good registraion point in the pictu The grating
on the righ-hand side of the picture. It appears in both the old and
new. If I had seen that and had used a tripod, it probably would have
matched them better.

C-3! That was a great old camera. I have a circa-1956-model "brick"
sitting in the closet... keep meaning to pull it out and shoot some B&W
with it. Argus was renowned in their day for their quality optics -
it's a 50mm f/3.5 lens that works beautifully... as long as the
rangefinder is aligned properly to allow you to focus!

The c-3 was the camera I learned the basics of photography with. I
rather suspect my brother still has it.

"Ron Hunter" wrote in message
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Mike Russell wrote:
Gary Edstrom wrote:
Today is one of those rare, ultra-clear days in the Los Angeles area.
I
decided to go out and try to duplicate a few old pictures from my
father's slide collection. Here is my first attempt:

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Ho...At_Vermont.JPG

Very cool! I took a crack at aligning things more closely:
http://mike.russell-home.net/tmp/LaFreeway/

Something interesting is that the shape of of the hills in the distance
has changed, and the area to the right where the onramp joins the freeway
seems to have been lowered.

Yes - one of the hills seems to have been carved away. I duplicated the
point of view of the photograph on Google Earth. I'll make a wild guess
that a housing development cleared away the trees and/or lowered that part
of the mountain - at least there seems to be a flat spot with homes on it in
the general area of the missing peak.

Here's the view.
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat....=#Post70 5399
If you have Google Earth, you'll see an oblique view with the drain in the
lower left, and similar mountains in the distance. Otherwise, Google Maps
will give an overhead view.
---
Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com/forum/

On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 02:54:49 -0600, Ron Hunter wrote:

Matt Ion wrote:
Gary Edstrom wrote:
On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:37:22 -0800, John McWilliams
wrote:


Gary Edstrom wrote:

Today is one of those rare, ultra-clear days in the Los Angeles
area. I
decided to go out and try to duplicate a few old pictures from my
father's slide collection. Here is my first attempt:

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Ho...At_Vermont.JPG

This is looking northwest on the Hollywood Freeway from the Vermont
Avenue overpass. This is just northwest of downtown Los Angeles. The
upper picture was taken fifty years ago in 1956 by my father. The
lower
picture was taken today by me.

It was a little difficult to register the two pictures because there
are
so few objects that exist in both pictures to use as reference points.
This area has seen a lot of change.

You did a nice job, tho. Is it possible that your Dad's lens was a
tad longer than the one you used? What elevation?


My dad had an old Argus C-3. One thing I have noticed in almost all of
the pictures from his camera is the vignetting at the corners. I can
see that I missed a good registraion point in the pictu The grating
on the righ-hand side of the picture. It appears in both the old and
new. If I had seen that and had used a tripod, it probably would have
matched them better.

C-3! That was a great old camera. I have a circa-1956-model "brick"
sitting in the closet... keep meaning to pull it out and shoot some B&W
with it. Argus was renowned in their day for their quality optics -
it's a 50mm f/3.5 lens that works beautifully... as long as the
rangefinder is aligned properly to allow you to focus!

The c-3 was the camera I learned the basics of photography with. I
rather suspect my brother still has it.

Durable little thing too. My Dad's Argus still works. That's _after_
landing on half the islands in the Pacific during WWII and with not a
lick of maintenance since. I should probably have it cleaned and lubed.
Funny how much more I respect that camera now than I did when I was a kid.

--
--John
to email, dial "usenet" and validate
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

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iws wrote:
"Mike Russell" -MOVE wrote in message
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Gary Edstrom wrote:
Today is one of those rare, ultra-clear days in the Los Angeles area.
I
decided to go out and try to duplicate a few old pictures from my
father's slide collection. Here is my first attempt:

http://gbe.dynip.com/Then_And_Now/Ho...At_Vermont.JPG
Very cool! I took a crack at aligning things more closely:
http://mike.russell-home.net/tmp/LaFreeway/
--
Interesting that the comparison doesn't seem to work in Firefox - works
in
IE. I found a similar Then and Now book on Pompei back in 2000 on a trip
to
Italy. When doing a video, my partner took images of the T&N pages then
faded the old into the new for a really great effect for the video of
that
part of the trip.



Works for me in Firefox 2.

Time for me to upgrade I guess.