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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Rictor on December 09, 2005, 08:18:57 pm

Title: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Post by: Rictor on December 09, 2005, 08:18:57 pm

Once again, the Russians deserve kudos. And it's not crap quality either, the colours are vibrant and the images are sharp and clear.
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=245

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Color film was non-existent in 1909 Russia, yet in that year a photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii embarked on a photographic survey of his homeland and captured hundreds of photos in full, vivid color. His photographic plates were black and white, but he had developed an ingenious photographic technique which allowed him to use them to produce accurate color images

Whole gallery over at the Library of Congress:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

Title: Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Post by: Cobra on December 09, 2005, 08:29:44 pm

well, dayamn! not bad, but i can't help thinking it's a scam. :nervous:

Title: Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Post by: Rictor on December 09, 2005, 08:44:43 pm

nah, its in the LoC, so it's legit.

Title: Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Post by: Grey Wolf on December 09, 2005, 08:56:55 pm

Those are really quite amazing.

Title: Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Post by: Goober5000 on December 09, 2005, 09:48:57 pm

Whoa.  Very impressive.

Title: Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Post by: Unknown Target on December 09, 2005, 09:58:07 pm

My Gods...this is stunning...and really makes the people from that era seem...real.

Title: Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Post by: WMCoolmon on December 10, 2005, 02:41:04 am

Those are so much better than my pictures. :(

Title: Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Post by: FireCrack on December 10, 2005, 03:37:56 am

Wow, wonderous!

Title: Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Post by: pyro-manic on December 11, 2005, 12:58:36 pm

Oooh. Nice find. :yes:

Another entry on my list-of-places-to-visit:
(http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87-6040.jpg)

Title: Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Post by: aldo_14 on December 11, 2005, 01:09:03 pm

Crikey.

Title: Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Post by: BlackDove on December 11, 2005, 01:21:27 pm

Very kickass.

Title: Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Post by: Kamikaze on December 11, 2005, 05:55:06 pm

 :eek2:

Those photos are beautiful.

Title: Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Post by: Stealth on December 11, 2005, 08:51:12 pm

yeah that first picture really is outstanding.

Title: Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Post by: Night Hammer on December 11, 2005, 08:53:55 pm

wow those are... wow

Title: Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Post by: StratComm on December 12, 2005, 12:53:15 am

I'm guessing he did the three-color thing with filters?  I am curious how he got transient things (clouds, for instance) to line up properly though.

EDIT: Oh, it was a special contraption that did it automatically.  Cool.  Very similar to how color channels on, say, a computer screen work.

Title: Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Post by: Lt.Cannonfodder on December 13, 2005, 10:52:50 pm

On a somewhat related subject:

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundforglory/glory-exhibit.html

Title: Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Post by: Flipside on December 13, 2005, 11:01:45 pm

This stuff is a Goldmine, it's like a window on the past :D

I think it makes the images seem so much more 'real' in colour, makes you realise the universe really did exist before you were born.

Title: Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Post by: kode on December 14, 2005, 01:58:41 am

Quote from: Flipside on December 13, 2005, 11:01:45 pm

This stuff is a Goldmine, it's like a window on the past :D

I think it makes the images seem so much more 'real' in colour, makes you realise the universe really did exist before you were born.

lies. stop telling me them lies.