Color Photos of Russia 100 Years Ago
May 26, 2013 19:55:43 #
http://www.topdesignmag.com/russia-in-color-100-years-ago/
Amazing how clean and crisp these photos are considering the era and the equipment.
Phil
Amazing how clean and crisp these photos are considering the era and the equipment.
Phil
May 26, 2013 20:31:26 #
May 26, 2013 20:58:24 #
The back story is amazing in itself. Sergey was a true photographic pioneer.
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Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in color photography of early 20th-century Russia.
Prokudin-Gorskys 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 cameras 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.
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To composite 3 R-G-B filtered images successfully was as much art as science.
But, as mentioned, you can see the color ghosting in the moving water or the kids who won't sit still...
Thanks for looking and commenting.
Phil
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Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in color photography of early 20th-century Russia.
Prokudin-Gorskys 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 cameras 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.
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To composite 3 R-G-B filtered images successfully was as much art as science.
But, as mentioned, you can see the color ghosting in the moving water or the kids who won't sit still...
Thanks for looking and commenting.
Phil
May 26, 2013 21:37:08 #
May 26, 2013 21:54:28 #
when you think about Sergey, his 3 color projection systems and compare it to today's DLP Projection TV's or Computer Projectors, the technology is basically the same.
The DLP Chip (typically from Texas Instruments) uses tens of thousands of almost microscopic movable mirrors that reflect the alternating Red, Green and Blue light from a bright light source that is shining through a VERY Quickly spinning 3 color disc to create the full color image we see on the screen.
I like "all things Geek" and if you're interested in this DLP technology and how your images and films get projected, here's a pretty thorough explanation from Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Light_Processing
Phil
The DLP Chip (typically from Texas Instruments) uses tens of thousands of almost microscopic movable mirrors that reflect the alternating Red, Green and Blue light from a bright light source that is shining through a VERY Quickly spinning 3 color disc to create the full color image we see on the screen.
I like "all things Geek" and if you're interested in this DLP technology and how your images and films get projected, here's a pretty thorough explanation from Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Light_Processing
Phil
May 27, 2013 11:27:47 #
Beautiful photographs and wonderful story. I have heard of this photographer but had not seen his work before seeing your posting. Thanks so much.
May 27, 2013 13:09:55 #
I like old photos, as much for the technology of the time as the history shown in the photos.
Have you looked back at old family photo albums?
It's amazing how we've changed and hopefully grown.
I have an 11 x 14 hand-colored wedding photo of my great grandparents on cardboard from 1901.
They were from the Hot Springs (now T or C) New Mexico area.
It was very badly damaged over the years of careless storage, but I scanned it in pieces, assembled it in software and sent it off to a restoration lab in Los Angeles.
They did a wonderful job of restoring it, filling in the missing pieces and getting rid of the water spots and stains.
Not to date myself, but my High School graduation photos were taken in B&W on an 8 x 10 plate camera and hand-colored by the photographer and/or his staff (family).
So, it has that "classic" look not evident in today's color photos.
Anyway, I'm glad you all enjoyed these photos.
I guess it's true that a single picture is worth a thousand words.
It's Memorial Day... Go out and shoot the occasion.
Happy shooting !
Phil
Have you looked back at old family photo albums?
It's amazing how we've changed and hopefully grown.
I have an 11 x 14 hand-colored wedding photo of my great grandparents on cardboard from 1901.
They were from the Hot Springs (now T or C) New Mexico area.
It was very badly damaged over the years of careless storage, but I scanned it in pieces, assembled it in software and sent it off to a restoration lab in Los Angeles.
They did a wonderful job of restoring it, filling in the missing pieces and getting rid of the water spots and stains.
Not to date myself, but my High School graduation photos were taken in B&W on an 8 x 10 plate camera and hand-colored by the photographer and/or his staff (family).
So, it has that "classic" look not evident in today's color photos.
Anyway, I'm glad you all enjoyed these photos.
I guess it's true that a single picture is worth a thousand words.
It's Memorial Day... Go out and shoot the occasion.
Happy shooting !
Phil
May 27, 2013 13:38:40 #
An interesting, if unremarked back-story is that his process is eerily similar to what later developed as Technicolor!
May 28, 2013 09:49:15 #
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