Rare Colour Photos

[DarkAutumn]

From the website:

"The internet's largest collection of rare colour photographs from WW 2"

http://www.ww2incolor.com/

[DarkAutumn]

From the website:

"The internet's largest collection of rare colour photographs from WW 2"

http://www.ww2incolor.com/

[comedy_watcher]

Thanks for the link, I enjoyed it!

This is off topic but, I think these are very interesting to look at, rare WW1 colour/color photos, here is the link...
http://www.poiemadesign.com/wwi/index.html
the way these were taken was pretty much the only way widely available back then, to take the actual black and white photo and apply chemicals made of potato starch and other things so that it created a color filter over the picture, known as the Autochrome Lumiere (or something like that) process.

The only other way that I know used back them is a process used by the tsar's Photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii which is quite brillant it envolves taking a red, green and blue negative of the scene of the picture then, overlapping them and cropping the edges. Here is a link that describes it better (under making color images)...
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/gorskii.html
take a look at the photos then the year, quite good and clear with out a doubt I was stunned when I saw them for the first time. The main flaw with the process is that it was not available to the public!

Hope you guys enjoy!

[DarkAutumn]

That's downright amazing, CW.
Thanks kindly for sharing those links!

[brian63089]

WOW! Seeing the world in 1912 in color is absolutely amazing! Those are also some very awesome ww2 photographs..I'm going to have to spend alot of time on that site tomorrow! Dark_autumn you always find the neatest stuff. Thank you both!! http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.gif http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/88.gif

[comedy_watcher]

No problem to both of you, I was suprised myself when I first saw them. I think I would have bought the story that the second link's pictures were taken of a bunch of reenactors only a few years ago. I personally think Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was a true genius, because no one else thought of a better way during that time period, I mean just look how new they look even now! One problem remains with the process though, since the picture was taken three times, with three different negatives if something moved then you would see it in on green, red and/or blue this is esp. noticeable under the transportation pics if you zoom in on the "Log Rafts on the
Peter I Canal, Shlisselburg" picture.