It's been almost a year since I went out to take some pictures. It was something that I was enjoying a lot - I would go out for hours and just take photos, after that I would spend even more time editing. But then something clicked and just didn't see anything through my lens. Everything became SO BORING. I tried a lot of things, but every time I would end up taking some cheesy photos that I didn't like and never even transferred them to my computer.
Some time ago I found a huge collection of old photos of Toronto and came up with an idea (I know that people have done that in the past) of creating a collection of before/afters - and soOld New TOwas born.
Taking photos is finally fun for me! I spend a lot of time (sometimes because these places changed quite a bit, I was looking for thatnice roofand couldn't figure out where it is ) walking around the city to find the places from old photos and try to match them as close as possible - angles, focal distance etc.
And the best part about this - I'm not just taking photos of before/afters for this collection, while walking around the city I found a lot of great places and took some interesting photos. It also helped me have a new look on this city and learn lots of streets' names
Were you ever in the situation where photography became boring and you just co
This "game" brought me back to photography
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It's been almost a year since I went out to take some pictures. It was something that I was enjoying a lot - I would go out for hours and just take photos, after that I would spend even more time editing. But then something clicked and just didn't see anything through my lens. Everything became SO BORING. I tried a lot of things, but every time I would end up taking some cheesy photos that I didn't like and never even transferred them to my computer.
Some time ago I found a huge collection of old photos of Toronto and came up with an idea (I know that people have done that in the past) of creating a collection of before/afters - and so Old New TO was born.
Taking photos is finally fun for me! I spend a lot of time (sometimes because these places changed quite a bit, I was looking for that nice roof and couldn't figure out where it is ) walking around the city to find the places from old photos and try to match them as close as possible - angles, focal distance etc.
And the best part about this - I'm not just taking photos of before/afters for this collection, while walking around the city I found a lot of great places and took some interesting photos. It also helped me have a new look on this city and learn lots of streets' names
Were you ever in the situation where photography became boring and you just co