Creating an Alternate World with colorization and compositing

I have been doing that for several colorized subjects, but still sticking to the general content outline.  Here's a commonly colorized subject of a boy in the slums of Baltimore tak.en by John Vachon in July 1938.  With my visual discomfort for useless vacant space (not all are useless though, there is such a thing as breathing space) I added a 19th century graffiti and a pet dog to create a slightly new visual content to the photo.  I like the experimented result.  Actually I had used compositing before to bring more details in my colorized, but they are mostly limited to what is hinted at in the picture and often lost due to fading,.  I also used this here  for adding a car in the rightmost background and changing the lady walking on the street to the left.   Also here: where I injected cat staring out from the window background.

Alfred Hitchcock, colorized photo with composited Psycho background

Stumbled on a highly detailed online photo of film director Alfred Hitchcock,  Has some fun compositing images from one of his more famous films, "Pyscho" on the background, rather than remain bland.

An Auto Wreck from a road accident, ca1921

Here's a colorized photo of an auto wreck in 1921.  Little is known other than it proceeded from a road accident.  Colorized in two color schemes with some creative liberties on the backdrop.

Birth of the American Flag,

This is my colorization take of a 1917 re-enactment of the event from a 1911 painting by Henry Mosler  The second photo is my attempt to correct the re-enacted image since the first US flag only had 13 stars representing the first 13 colonies. It was admitted that the time of re-enactment, the organizers did not have the original flag but used flag that was then  available, a 1917 flag containing the 50 stars

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A pub house called Drovers Arms in Wales, ca 1930s

Colorized a photo of a restored Drovers Arms at the highest points of the Mynydd Epynt mountain in Pentre Dolau Honddu, Wales prior to being closed in 1940 when the entire area was taken over by the military and closed off for training. Based on the site here http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wlsbfhs/article01.htm, It has been on the mountain as early as the 1850s and was then called Tynmynydd, The image I used in the colorization may have been a restored structure after the 1940 takeover by the military of the entire area. It is now a soldier's barracks.

Auto wreck on a street/sidewalk in Washington, DC, 1921

Here's my colorization take on a commonly colorized photo.

Colorized photo of a 1919 Chalmers Touring Car in San Francisco, ca 1920

A couple of colorized options for the same subject

Winston Churchill, 1941, colorized

Here is my take on a photo of Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the Canadian Parliament, December 1941, colorized from a photo by Yousuf Karsh. Winston Churchill made a memorable and emotional speech to the Canadian Parliament on this day, thanking Canada for its support in the Second World War. He assured his listeners that Britain would never surrender to "Hitler and his Nazi gang" saying, "they have asked for total war. Let us make sure they get it".

Mack Sennett Jazz Age Vagabonds Era 1920s,

Colorized the same girls but with a different car here https://alexlimcolorization.blogspot.com/search/label/jazz%20age using the different color scheme minus that added liberties in the apparel.

How an office looked like in 1902

Colorized a vintage photo of an office at Richmond & Backus, Co. in 1902. Made it look like a winter dusk and the two are working a bit late. Love those large windows. I don't think you have them in today's offices. Management learned that windows distract your from being productive.

A 1919 Paige Touring Car, colorized with some liberties

With some colorizing liberties, recreated the scene in the vintage photo on a sunset setting, putting some lens flares on the car body and the glint of the sun rays on the some surfaces on the house and car. 

Cleo De Merode (1875 - 1966), 1905

Another colorized vintage portrait of the most photographed woman in Europe in the early 1900s, also from Falex Nadar taken 1905.

Cleo de Merode (1875 - 1966), by Felix Nadar , 1905

Revisited my directory full of downloads of Cleo de Merode's vintage photos.  Colorized another, first is this from French Photo journalist Felix Nadar in 1905. To those who don't know, Cleo (Cléopatra Diane de Mérode) was the most photographed woman in Europe during her prime, the equivalent of a supermodel today, and enjoyed similar acclaim as a fellow Frech beauty Bridgette Bardot. To know more about her, just Google her name and there are countless resources on her.

Newsies taking a break. 1910

Here is my colorized take on a commonly colorized image of Newsies smoking at Skeeter’s Branch, St. Louis, Missouri, May 9, 1910.  at a time when smoking was cool, not surgeon general warning, until the mid 60s.  Original b&w photo photo by Lewis Hine.  Some liberties taken on the backdrop. See if you can identify.

A portrait photoshoot gone wrong

A vintage post card with girl bitten by her partner for a portrait.