Long before color-sensitive films were invented, Russian photographer Prokudin-Gorsky used to take 3 individual black-and-white photos, each with a filter (Red, Green, Blue) to create high-quality pictures in full color. This self portrait of him is 107 years old!
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I found this very cool. Thanks op.
the timing of this post is sus.
Thatās rad
Triple RGB WOW
He looks like he is getting ready to drop a fresh ragtme album.
This is fucking dope.
Iām trying to imagine what that day was like for him and it is all because of the incredible detail in this photograph.
Is it a self portrait if someone else takes the picture?
This is the coolest thng Iāve seen, and no comments?!
Imagine seeing this in person back then. All youāve ever seen were low res black and white photos. This would be unreal to see for the first time
Edit: my bad. You are all right. They were high res.
Iām amazed he came in as clear as he did. Dude could hold a pose.
Still better then security cameras
The buildings in the background are super neat! Such a great snapshot in time!
Incredible!! Also, Zoom in. He kind of looks like John Lennon.
How clever!
Wouldn’t this have to be a projected image though? If it wasn’t possible to just take a color photograph like today, what kind of color-processing paper could there have been at that time?
This is an amazing photo. Everything is in focus it almost looks like it is in 3D. And a like to the cotton candy looking water due to the long exposure.
Just some explanation: his method is basically how color movies would be done 30 years later.
However, his photos did not look like this back in the early 20th Century.
These Used to be negatives projected in different color spectrum on top of each other so it was basically a dia and it did not look this sharp.
These pictures were made later from his negatives in painstaking manual labor or mich later with a digitalization technology. They then got his method retroactively applied and digitally remastered making some interesting but blurry Dias into some incredibly sharp looking modern pics but the colors definitely looked different back in the day
All that talent, no need to invade another country
three identical shots had to be combined, paired with long exposure time – target would have to sit still for a considerable period of time.
there is a collection of his photos in LOC i believe, pay attention to kids and their facial expressions, they didn’t like the idea š
This specific image file is still digitally rendered, for anyone curious.
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In his original work, the viewer would have to see the image through a device that would filter each layer through its specific color or by projecting each layer through a colored filter and superimposing them into one image.
This is awesome, thanks for the reference. I understand that this photo was done in 1915. Doesnāt James C Maxwell demonstrated color photography with a similar process in 1861? Also, Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron was doing color photography by 1877. All the pioneer methods of color photography is so fascinating!
So he went back and sat in the identical position 3 times to make this composite?
Now this is proper old school cool
“Russian”
Fuck Russia.
cap modern architecture on the hill in the background
Brilliant!
I saw the camera that captured this image, and can’t wrap my head around the missing parallax that should be there but isn’t
Down voted because Russian.
OP blocked because Russian.
Fuck Russia. Fuck Putin.
Why he wearing āis Sunday best sittinā on dat rock in da middle of nowhere? Gonna get hella dirty
was the earth just cooler back then? i see people wearing 3 piece suits all over and just imagine them hot as hell.
/r/ColorizedHistory hates him
But Calvin’s dad said the *whole world* was in black and white back then.
WOW! That is very high resolution for early photography.. and this pioneer in colour indeed sets the car.
how did he print them ?
One of the true pioneers of photography, and a significant documenter of history.
At the time he actually didnāt have the ability to print these. He would project them via 3 aligned projectors each with a different colored filter for the Tsar.
Imagine what that must have looked like to people at the timeā¦ itās good to be the Tzar, until it isnāt.
I doubt that this is a self portrait. It would be nearly impossible to take a pic, get up, swap the filters and go sit back down in the exact same position for the RGBK (assuming that’s approximately what he was doing).
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He had someone else do the tech work while he sat in the pose.
Those homes on the hill back there look heavenly.
Iāve got a coffee table book of his photos. Itās called āPhotgraphs for the Tsarā or something like that. Really neat book
Wow.
I like that you can see small bits of red / green / blue and how the water is smoothed by the time between the photos.
Smartypants
It’s still mind blowing.
Man if he had taken some pictures or the revolution. Man this really is the closest we have to a time machine
I looked this guy up. His work is amazing! I’m a fan.
I think this is the first really cool old school post. Damn this is cool.