[QUOTE=Capitulazyguy;26433882]That was just the style at the time in everywhere that wasn't America.[/QUOTE]
Admittedly that's true. I mean, Milton Keynes and the Bognor Regis Butlins still look like that.
[QUOTE=Derubermensch;26431726]These are surprisingly well colored for WWI era photos. Usually they come out with some colors way off.
Page King[/QUOTE]
Pre-WW1 era photos, at that.
[QUOTE=Ezhik;26431727]I wish the USSR never happened, and instead our economy stabilized and everyone got fair rights and shit.. I wonder how would the world look if that happened.[/QUOTE]
The entire history of the world would be completely different.
[QUOTE=Melnek;26432699]I am quite happy that the USSR was established, I just wish they'd drop the communist dictatorship bullshit and simply live in a union where resource are equally distributed between all those who are involved. But no, Stalin just had to fucking go ahead and take command, completely fucking everything up.[/QUOTE]
The main problem is that transition to ussr and back desroyed the culture and economy, twice, and that's fucking retarded.
It just occurred to me how old 100 years old is. When you see in the news "World's Oldest Person, 109 years" etc.....holy crap.
I hope I live to be old so I can tell everyone what it was like "back in the day".
[URL]http://www.ostashkov.ru/foto/prokudin2003/77677/[/URL]
Here's a neat comparison of the Nilov Monastery in the 1910 pictures and today.
It looked better back then :frown:
Although for 70 years, it was confiscated by the Soviet Government and used as a prisoner of war camp, a hospital, and a work camp, so it's understandable.
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[QUOTE=Derubermensch;26431726]These are surprisingly well colored for WWI era photos. Usually they come out with some colors way off.
Page King[/QUOTE]
These were digitally manipulated by the Library of Congress. The originals wouldn't have been this high quality, as there wasn't the technology required to combine the three images so well
I always thought the past and the present were so...different.
But it looks as if they were taken yesterday...
I really like this one:
[img]http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/prokudin_08_20/p20_00003951.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Piggah;26421066]late late late[/QUOTE]
If you put all three of those words over eachother, would it make a color image?
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[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;26437668]I really like this one:
[img_thumb]http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/prokudin_08_20/p20_00003951.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
It's photos like those that just make you wanna say "It's a reenactment. Fake photo",But then you are :psyduck:
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;26438166]Our founding STALKERS
[img_thumb]http://media.englishrussia.com/war_chronical/1_030.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
Fun fact: Before the creation of The Zone, The Stalkers were actually a hybrid mercenary group and polka band.
I don't think the WWII photos are as effective because from what I've experienced they're simply black and white photos with artificial colour added, whereas these Russian photos were actually taken with a colour camera (three different filters). I could be wrong though.
I really enjoy looking at The Big Picture on boston.com These pictures are awesome.
Gotta love that spherical abberation on the camera lens.
It's amazing, really...makes you believe that the past wasn't too unlike the present.
i'm probably late as fuck but i think these were black and white but were painted afterwards
could be wrong though
[QUOTE=loco;26430919]Well I think it's because that was the first time they've ever been exposed to cameras so I doubt many would know how to pose for them. That's just my little thought though I could be wrong.[/QUOTE]
I'm gonna agree with that, I mean check out this picture of Abraham Lincoln, Allan Pinkerton, and Major General John A. McClernand. Lincoln looks really awkward... he looks like a huge action-figure or something.
[img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/PinkertonLincolnMcClernand.jpg[/img_thumb]
... or a fucking alien. I don't know.
[QUOTE=sltungle;26439600]I'm gonna agree with that, I mean check out this picture of Abraham Lincoln, Allan Pinkerton, and Major General John A. McClernand. Lincoln looks really awkward... he looks like a huge action-figure or something.
[img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/PinkertonLincolnMcClernand.jpg[/img_thumb]
... or a fucking alien. I don't know.[/QUOTE]
Is it just me or is Lincoln's face really blurry?
Seriously?
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@OP pics.
Everyone looks so damn bored.
[QUOTE=daijitsu;26441863][img_thumb]http://gyazo.com/e87ad594085ce510fde9a463ce74e7ca.png[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://gyazo.com/52cc9c35e7e2f2c982f0baa920f21bc9.png[/img_thumb]
hypnochildren[/QUOTE]
They probably moved a lot during the image screwing their portraits up with the super low exposure rate.
Colour pictures of things pre-WWII are incredible. It helps me not think of that time period as actually being black and white.
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[QUOTE=sltungle;26439600]I'm gonna agree with that, I mean check out this picture of Abraham Lincoln, Allan Pinkerton, and Major General John A. McClernand. Lincoln looks really awkward... he looks like a huge action-figure or something.
[img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/PinkertonLincolnMcClernand.jpg[/img_thumb]
... or a fucking alien. I don't know.[/QUOTE]
Why does this picture creep the shit out of me.
This is pretty interesting.
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;26431020][img_thumb]http://englishrussia.com/images/russia_100_years_ago/4.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
I can't help but think that's cocaine even though it's probably not. The fact that there's also scales on the right only makes it worse, lol.
[QUOTE=PyromanDan;26421321]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.[/QUOTE]
Rated Rainbow, for the different colors of the electromagnetic spectrum.
It's weird, I see these pictures and it just looks like they're all models posing with costumes on to fit the area. It's fucking with my head,
[QUOTE=Cookieeater;26442519]They probably moved a lot during the image screwing their portraits up with the super low exposure rate.[/QUOTE]
Yeah it took around 1 to 4 seconds to take all 3 shots. A lot longer if it was really bright outside.
I love this kinda stuff. There was a WW2 series on Channel 4 in the UK recently which was all black and white footage shown in colour.
How come Russia was so awesome back then?
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