Anyone here into Colorization of b/w photos?
I just started and I'm wondering if anyone else here has an interest in this.
Feel free to share whatever you have. I would be happy about some galleries with high res b/w photos, already know about Shorpy and this finnish military archive.
in the meantime I'll dump some colorized photos. can be a historical photos general, i guess.
Colorized WW1 photo
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>these fucking blue uniforms
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aesthetic af
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Pre WW1 era was truly the height of Western civ
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and what do you have against them
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It looks so grand and dignified
How do they actually color these? Is it just speculation or is there an algorithm?
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I like how some of the swimwear is just what a kid normally wears TODAY (i.e. a t-shirt and shorts)
bump for interest
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painted digitally by hand. not sure if you can call that completely speculation, as far as I know these colourizers oberserve how modern photos capture colours and try to apply that to the old b/w photos.
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Is this real? Looks just like the Band of Brother actors
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THANK YOU OP
these are cool as fuck, best thread in months, I found pic related in my folders, I don't think I have any other colorized pictures though
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done
what about the Gorskii photographs?
also, quality thread
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> Gorskii photographs
I'm currently downloading a collection of his photographs, might dump some later.
>The method of color photography used by Prokudin-Gorsky was first suggested by James Clerk Maxwell in 1855 and demonstrated in 1861, but good results were not possible with the photographic materials available at that time. In imitation of the way a normal human eye senses color, the visible spectrum of colors was divided into three channels of information by capturing it in the form of three black-and-white photographs, one taken through a red filter, one through a green filter, and one through a blue filter. The resulting three photographs could either be projected through filters of the same colors and exactly superimposed on a screen, synthesizing the original range of color additively; viewed as an additive color image by one person at a time through an optical device known generically as a chromoscope or photochromoscope, which contained colored filters and transparent reflectors that visually combined the three into one full-color image; or used to make photographic or mechanical prints in the complementary colors cyan, magenta and yellow, which, when superimposed, reconstituted the color subtractively.[11]
>An ordinary camera could be used to take the three pictures, by reloading it and changing filters between exposures, but pioneering color photographers usually built or bought special cameras that made the procedure less awkward and time-consuming. One of the two main types used beam splitters to produce three separate images in the camera, allowing all three exposures to be made at the same time and from the same viewpoint. Although a camera of this type was ideal in theory, such cameras were optically complicated and delicate and liable to get out of adjustment. Some designs were also subject to optical phenomena that could cause noticeably uneven color or other defects in the results. The other, more robust type was an essentially ordinary camera with a special sliding holder for the plates and filters that allowed each in turn to be efficiently shifted into position for exposure, an operation that was sometimes partly or even entirely automated by means of a pneumatic mechanism or spring-powered motor.[11]
Going through these pictures right now and I can't help but think that Russia truly had some unique kind of beauty back then.
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Charlotte a qt
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So beautiful with the streets full of horse shit
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not all streets were free to traverse for horses.
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there's such totality between landscape, architecture, and costume of the people, unlike today clash of looks , though it probably dirtier
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WE WUZ