Now I doubt many are you of you into photography ,but I found this pretty cool it was back from August so I hope I'm not late.
[url=http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html]Russia In Color A Century Ago[/url]
[quote]With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time - when these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun. Collected here are a few of the hundreds of color images made available by the Library of Congress, which purchased the original glass plates back in 1948.[/quote]
It's pretty amazing how these were taken around 100 years ago ,but since they are in color it makes it seem like they weren't taken so long ago.
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky actually had a fascinating way of taking color photos. He would take three monochrome pictures with different filters. Then he would layer them together using correctly colored light. It would produce something close to the original color of the scene ,but with lighter colors.
Snippet from Wikipedia.
[quote]Prokudin-Gorsky's own research yielded patents for producing color film slides and for projecting color motion pictures. His process used a camera that took a series of three monochrome pictures in sequence, each through a different-colored filter. By projecting all three monochrome pictures using correctly colored light, it was possible to reconstruct the original color scene. Any stray movement within the camera's field of view showed up in the prints as multiple "ghosted" images, since the red, green and blue images were taken of the subject at slightly different times.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Alleia_Hamerops_composite.jpg/450px-Alleia_Hamerops_composite.jpg[/img][/quote]
[b] A few images from the article [/b]
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/p01_00021620.jpg[/img]
[release][b]An Armenian woman in national costume poses for Prokudin-Gorskii on a hillside near Artvin (in present day Turkey), circa 1910.[/b][/release]
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/p13_00004438.jpg[/img]
[release][b]General view of the Nikolaevskii Cathedral from southwest in Mozhaisk in 1911.[/b][/release]
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/p25_00021886.jpg[/img]
[release][b]Emir Seyyid Mir Mohammed Alim Khan, the Emir of Bukhara, seated holding a sword in Bukhara, (present-day Uzbekistan), ca. 1910.[/b][/release]
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/russia2.jpg[/img]
[release][b]A general view of Sukhumi, Abkhazia and its bay, seen sometime around 1910 from Cherniavskii Mountain.[/b][/release]
[img]http://gyazo.com/5570af3498f9473ce5314e4f835c9e17.png[/img]
(That's a woman in Russia circa 1910)
Looks the same as Russia now
Holy Shit.
[editline]1st December 2010[/editline]
that is pretty sexy.
late late late
100 years ago???
Wow thats awesome
This is amazing.
I love the picture of the harbor. :buddy:
Pretty amazing stuff. My favorite shot is the one with all the small shacks, a dirt road, and a giant church just sitting there.
I know the world was color but you dont think of the world back then to be REALLY having color like that.
I dont know why that is for me, though.
I think what really got me was the shipyard.
seeing all those ships, and the old docks and houses, it sounds stupid but, it makes it seem more real, rather than just "history"
from 100 years ago and still better than today's average camera pictures
Those are some sweet pictures.
[QUOTE=loco;26420992]
[img_thumb]http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/prokudin_08_20/p13_00004438.jpg[/img_thumb]
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[img_thumb]http://photos.windsorpalmsusa.com/squidoo/Magic_Kingdom_castle.jpg[/img_thumb]
Looks like Disney copied the Russian castle and inverted colors
so weird when it's not black and white, wish all pictures were like this.
[QUOTE=Tonotako;26421154]from 100 years ago and still better than today's average camera pictures[/QUOTE]
Yea, they are 10x better than your average cellphone camera. I mean, cmon.
Incredible pictures for that time period. The fact that those "old" houses look so new, really got me.
[QUOTE=Tonotako;26421154]from 100 years ago and still better than today's average camera pictures[/QUOTE]
Yeah.. but at the time, these were the PINNACLE of camera technology.
[QUOTE=PyromanDan;26421151]I know the world was color but you dont think of the world back then to be REALLY having color like that.
I dont know why that is for me, though.
I think what really got me was the shipyard.
seeing all those ships, and the old docks and houses, it sounds stupid but, it makes it seem more real, rather than just "history"[/QUOTE]
Exactly how I felt until I saw these photos. Before when I thought of that time period I would get something like this.
[img]http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/images/1910.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=PyromanDan;26421195]Yea, they are 10x better than your average cellphone camera. I mean, cmon.[/QUOTE]
Uh, honestly some of the best work I've seen has been with film photography.
I'm a fan of film myself, I did it for a year and a half - Used a film SLR, developed my own film, developed my own pictures, use enlargers, learned different developing techniques, rolled my own film, etc. I was a part of every process involving film and developing my own film. Loved it. I think every photographer or every person that has some sort of interest in photography - professional or hobbyist, should do film at some point in their life. You learn to appreciate your work more along with others. You actually have to do some labor in order to make a final product. Not saying digital is bad, i use digital now. But the process of film photography is so much more satisfying and rewarding.
From some film photography it is hard to even imagine that it was taken a 100 years ago.
That is fucking awesome. A million times better than my shitty $200 video camera.
Wow thats amazing, it doesn't seem like that could be 100 years ago but it is. Also the camera is better than most cameras today.
Absolutely astonishing.
[QUOTE=MR-X;26421253]Uh, honestly some of the best work I've seen has been with film photography.
I'm a fan of film myself, I did it for a year and a half - Used a film SLR, developed my own film, developed my own pictures, use enlargers, learned different developing techniques, rolled my own film, etc. I was a part of every process involving film and developing my own film. Loved it.
From some film photography it is hard to even imagine that it was taken a 100 years ago.[/QUOTE]
I can see film being of better quality, seeing as its a chemical reaction on a incredibly small scale, compaired to how many tiny boxes can you fit into a small box to sense photon wavelength.
I think it would be pretty cool if someone from there would take a photo today and compare it to these I doubt it would happen though.
Some people make a living doing that loco, there is always a possibility.
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;26421408]Some people make a living doing that loco, there is always a possibility.[/QUOTE]
Well I meant someone on Facepunch ,but yeah you're right.
There's a modern photographer who juxtaposed modern photos with ones taken during WW2.
[img]http://pics.livejournal.com/sergey_larenkov/pic/0006ak1z[/img]
Cool shit. I can't find his blog though.
Feels like a century ago that I saw these
[QUOTE=Sector 7;26421475]There's a modern photographer who juxtaposed modern photos with ones taken during WW2.
[img_thumb]http://pics.livejournal.com/sergey_larenkov/pic/0006ak1z[/img_thumb]
Cool shit. I can't find his blog though.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://sergey-larenkov.livejournal.com/[/url] Is that it?
[QUOTE=loco;26421496][url]http://sergey-larenkov.livejournal.com/[/url] Is that it?[/QUOTE]
yep.
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