San Francisco Painting

We own a painting by Anthony
Holdsworth which depicts a
downtown San Francisco view
of Market Street. On our trip
there in September I thought it
would be neat to make a photo
of the same scene and match
it as closely as I could to the painting.












The problem is that I had forgotten to bring a snapshot of the painting so had to work from memory as to camera position and, of course, the time of day and lighting would be different. Luckily, the fog broke a little so I was able to get some blue sky. Never the less the closest photo (I shot several) came out substantially different in color balance, has a light post and crane not present in the painting, and varies in perspective. Okay, time for Photoshop to come to the rescue. I thought this would be a great chance to see what I could accomplish through photo manipulation.


I altered the tint, lightened the shadows, shifted the perspective, and removed the lamp posts and the crane. I had to add a building toward the end of the street angling off to the right (not very visible on this blog). That was rather hard since I didn't really know what to use but it came out okay and I developed more skill with Photoshop. Overall, I think it would be easier to simply return to the city and take another photograph, this time with a snapshot of the painting for reference.