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Color photos of almost hundred years ago (23 photos)

Posted in Pictures 22 Jun 2009 / 29466 views

Look at this picture. Does it seem natural for the time when it was taken (1915)? I'm sure most of you will say that it was photoshopped and fake. Well no, it's a real photo taken by the Russian photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky.

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His process used a camera that took a series of three monochrome pictures in sequence, each through a different coloured filter. By projecting all three monochrome pictures using correctly coloured light, it was possible to reconstruct the original colour scene.

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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 (from one to three seconds). For example, look at the kid in the bottom of the picture on the left. It’s well known, that children move a lot, that’s why it was not easy working with them.

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Tags: Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, color photography, Russian

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rubending 22 Jun 2009 08:07:

clapping

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Xeno 22 Jun 2009 09:54:

Beautifull clapping

clapping

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adriee 22 Jun 2009 11:00:

wooow!!! fantastic!

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Vee 22 Jun 2009 13:02:

Wow, amazing!

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funkychic 22 Jun 2009 22:55:

wow that's amazing...the world look so clean and pure especially compared to now vishenka_33

vishenka_33

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oddball_04 22 Jun 2009 23:24:

cool beans

Donkey-Punch Champion 2009

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capa76 23 Jun 2009 01:52:

Truly amazing n_wassat

n_wassat

I don't speak English so excuse my posts....I'll try to write as well as I can.

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nick 23 Jun 2009 05:23:

music

music

music

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Roswell 23 Jun 2009 09:06:

Go google this guy. One can only imagine all the photos that didn't make it out of Russia. Just incredible. It's a shame no one else did this.

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gred 23 Jun 2009 17:44:

wow

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Augustwest 23 Jun 2009 21:01:

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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a_m_p 25 Jun 2009 17:01:

We are Russians the best!!! :))))))

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dirol

n_blush

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GOODSTUFF4U 12 Apr 2010 13:42:

wonder how the did that

http://goodstuff4u.multiply.com/

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