City - Dallas TX - Elm street at night 1941 - Side by Side is a photograph by Mike Savad which was uploaded on January 17th, 2016.
City - Dallas TX - Elm street at night 1941 - Side by Side
Colorized photo from 1941... more
by Mike Savad
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City - Dallas TX - Elm street at night 1941 - Side by Side
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Mike Savad
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Photograph - Colorized Photo
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Colorized photo from 1941
Original Title: Night view, downtown section, Dallas Texas
Location: Elm Street, Dallas, TX
This one was a challenging one. Colorizing comes down to knowing the object your coloring combined with the how gray something is. However, when an object is a source of light, like in these neon signs, all the lights are white. There is no good way of knowing what the original colors are.
I figured the colors would probably be garish, because neon usually is bright and kind of ugly. I was able to find some of the original colors though. The Majestic is still there, sign and all. The White Plaza is red, despite its name. The current hotel that's there has faint letters on the side with a red background.
I debated if I should keep that streak in the front. I kept it because cloning it would not have been worth it. It's red because that's the height of a tail light.
Originally I was going to have stars in the sky, but cities, you don't see stars, not really anyway. Not with that much light, it might as well be day right now. However the clock on that little sign by the Texas loans sign, says 8:20 or so, maybe its the summer, maybe blue hour, hard to know. I added clouds for depth. Nothing else worked.
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