This project aims to revisit the voyage of HMS Challenger between 1872 and 1876. HMS Challenger was a Royal Naval vessel but was borrowed by the Royal Society to research the depths of the oceans and study the marine wildlife that they dredged along the way. It was a very significant voyage. However, more important for us are the 500 photographs that they took throughout the journey. This project aims to re-photograph those scenes as they are today - from the same location if possible.
These photographs were taken by 3 photographers throughout the journey and documented the depth and breadth of the world and the variety of countries and cultures encountered. The collection is a held at the Natural History Museum in London but few people see these images anymore.
Places involved are: Lisbon, Gibraltar, Madeira, Tenerife, St. Thomas, Bermuda, Halifax, San Miguel Id, Porto Grande, St. Paul's Rocks, Bahia, Tristan Da Cunha, Cape of Good Hope, Sydney, Wellington, Levuka, Cape York, Dobbo, Banda, Amboina, Ternate, Zamboanga, Ilo Ilo, Manila, Hong Kong, Cebu, Admiralty Ids, Yokohama, Yokoska, Kobe, Honolulu, Hilo, Tahiti, Juan Fernandez, Valparaiso, Messier Channel, Magellan, Falkland Ids, Montevideo, Ascension Id. Tonga
I'm working on the pictures taken at the Cape of Good Hope during October - December 1873. Who else will join the voyage?
@hednod What do you mean "sorry'? These pictures are wonderful and really interesting. So now I want to pick your brains. I'm sitting with two pictuers I took today that I know are pretty much replicas because the profile of the muntain is spot-on. But how do you get the pin-point accuracy to make these types of collages? And I have another picture that appears to be slightly off. How do I get the right sport ... A gazillion picures - each one in a slightly different spot?!
@eleanor I used photoshop. and is very much trial and error. Drag the old photo onto the new photo as a new layer. then make the top layer the old photo 50% transparent so you can see the new photo underneath . then resize and move the old photo about till its pretty much right.
Finally cut out bit of the old photo layrer and job done.
it takes some practice and you need to know a bit about Photoshop to do it, but all fairly basic PS skills.
@eleanor I've got pix to do a similiar project .... when I finish classes in a few days and return from Melbourne .... then I'll be into it. It's a version of this as I can't use the editing programs - everyone knows this by now!
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Your then/now pics are really great. Love the way you've done them.
Finally cut out bit of the old photo layrer and job done.
it takes some practice and you need to know a bit about Photoshop to do it, but all fairly basic PS skills.