Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
Rate This Thread
Hop To
#4010825 - 09/17/14 04:39 AM Colorized Historical Photos  
Joined: May 2014
Posts: 674
CatKnight Offline
Member
CatKnight  Offline
Member

Joined: May 2014
Posts: 674
Cleveland, OH, US
http://diply.com/trendyjoe/historical-photos-in-color/50653


Diply published an article colorizing a number of black and white photos dating from the American Civil War up through 1960. One in particular should be of some interest to this group:




Seeing the Blue Max colored in really makes it stand out as something special.

#4010845 - 09/17/14 06:59 AM Re: Colorized Historical Photos [Re: CatKnight]  
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 6,739
Olham Offline
Barmy Baron from Berlin
Olham  Offline
Barmy Baron from Berlin
Hotshot

Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 6,739
What the colouring seems to do for me is to shrink the distance in time
between the person(s) and my own presence.
Don't they suddenly feel so much closer?

Thank you for sharing - I'll check out the website with my first coffee now!


Vice-President of the BOC (Barmy OFFers Club)
Member of the 'Albatros Aviators Club' - "We know how to die with Style!"
#4010849 - 09/17/14 08:30 AM Re: Colorized Historical Photos [Re: CatKnight]  
Joined: Dec 2013
Posts: 424
Rover_27 Offline
Member
Rover_27  Offline
Member

Joined: Dec 2013
Posts: 424
Russia
Thanks for sharing! Some photos indeed gave me the chills as the website promised


i5 2320, 3.3 GHz
GTX 560Ti, 4 GB graphics memory
8 GB RAM
Windows 7 64x
#4010852 - 09/17/14 08:54 AM Re: Colorized Historical Photos [Re: Olham]  
Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 3,086
MFair Offline
Senior Member
MFair  Offline
Senior Member

Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 3,086
Originally Posted By: Olham
What the colouring seems to do for me is to shrink the distance in time
between the person(s) and my own presence.
Don't they suddenly feel so much closer?

Thank you for sharing - I'll check out the website with my first coffee now!

Olham, I have always had a "feeling" when looking at these colorized pictures that I could not really put my finger on but you hit the nail on the head! Thanks for sharing Cat.

Last edited by MFair; 09/17/14 08:56 AM.

Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from either end.
BOC Member since....I can't remember!
#4010857 - 09/17/14 09:32 AM Re: Colorized Historical Photos [Re: CatKnight]  
Joined: Jul 2009
Posts: 1,267
JimAttrill Offline
Member
JimAttrill  Offline
Member

Joined: Jul 2009
Posts: 1,267
Johannesburg, South Africa
My maternal grandmother did this as a job back in the early years of the 20th century. There weren't many jobs for women out of 'service' in those days and she enjoyed it (so I have been told anyway).


LG 27" 27mp65 monitor; EVGA GTX970 GPU; AMD Ryzen 3500 CPU; Corsair 750w PSU; MSI X470 mobo

RAF 1966-73 Cpl Engine Fitter (Retd.) Trenchard brat 206th Entry
DBA and systems programmer 1981-2005. Now retired since 2014
#4010859 - 09/17/14 09:38 AM Re: Colorized Historical Photos [Re: CatKnight]  
Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 890
Creaghorn Offline
Member
Creaghorn  Offline
Member

Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 890
N�rnberg Frankonia
Some awesome Pics there. I like the one with the little blond chap and the cigarette and the pic of the Samurai.

#4010884 - 09/17/14 12:11 PM Re: Colorized Historical Photos [Re: CatKnight]  
Joined: Jul 2014
Posts: 907
Nietzsche Offline
Member
Nietzsche  Offline
Member

Joined: Jul 2014
Posts: 907
Grevenbroich, Germany
Superb!
Most revealing is the Portrait of Lincoln to me: I've always seen him beeing a "Living Stone Statue" before... and there he is, now... he is an exhausted, tired, old man - but you can still see his archly smile, that says - even in those times - Life isn't all sad.
Tesla was a little Suprise to me:
Pretty unsuspecting. I thought I'd see more "Charisma" with the most complex Mind of the Universe...

Last edited by Nietzsche; 09/17/14 12:12 PM.
#4010913 - 09/17/14 01:16 PM Re: Colorized Historical Photos [Re: CatKnight]  
Joined: May 2012
Posts: 4,879
RAF_Louvert Offline
BOC President; Pilot Extraordinaire; Humble Man
RAF_Louvert  Offline
BOC President; Pilot Extraordinaire; Humble Man
Senior Member

Joined: May 2012
Posts: 4,879
L'Etoile du Nord
.

Some great photos there. Thanks for sharing the link CatKngiht.

.


[Linked Image]

Three RFC Brass Hats were strolling down a street in London. Two walked into a bar, the third one ducked.
_________________________________________________________________________

Former Cold War Warrior, USAF Security Service 1974-1978, E-4, Morse Systems Intercept, England, Europe, and points above.
"pippy-pahpah-pippy pah-pip-pah"

#4010915 - 09/17/14 01:18 PM Re: Colorized Historical Photos [Re: CatKnight]  
Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 890
Creaghorn Offline
Member
Creaghorn  Offline
Member

Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 890
N�rnberg Frankonia
Nikola Tesla reminded me a bit visually to young Vito Corleone :-)

#4010950 - 09/17/14 02:46 PM Re: Colorized Historical Photos [Re: CatKnight]  
Joined: May 2012
Posts: 1,743
Hasse Offline
Member
Hasse  Offline
Member

Joined: May 2012
Posts: 1,743
Great stuff!

Real colour photography was rare in the early years of the 20th century, but it did exist. The French were the pioneers in the field. Perhaps the most famous early exponent of colour photography was the French banker Albert Kahn, who used his wealth to fund a massive colour photography project known as Les Archives de la Planète, the Archives of the Planet. The collection contains over 72,000 colour photos from 1909 until 1931, when the Great Depression put an end to Kahn's wealth and the project.

Another famous early colour photographer was the Russian Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. He took a lot of photos from various parts of the Russian Empire in the 1910s, just a few years before the Empire collapsed in the revolutions of 1917.

Many of the photos of these guys are of excellent quality and look like they were taken yesterday. Their methods captured and preserved the colours in the photos incredibly well.


"Upon my word I've had as much excitement on a car as in the air, especially since the R.F.C. have had women drivers."

James McCudden, Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps
#4011004 - 09/17/14 05:14 PM Re: Colorized Historical Photos [Re: CatKnight]  
Joined: May 2014
Posts: 674
CatKnight Offline
Member
CatKnight  Offline
Member

Joined: May 2014
Posts: 674
Cleveland, OH, US
They definitely make me feel 'closer' to the actual events and men.

I'm not too surprised Tesla doesn't show much charisma. Tesla had a very bad case of OCD, was an extreme introvert and operated on a whole different plane to most people.

I think the picture that struck me the most was the little kid with the stuffed animal in London. I knew about the Blitz of course, but this really drives home the point that we have this frightened boy in the middle of something brutal and terrible.

#4011019 - 09/17/14 05:52 PM Re: Colorized Historical Photos [Re: CatKnight]  
Joined: Jul 2009
Posts: 1,267
JimAttrill Offline
Member
JimAttrill  Offline
Member

Joined: Jul 2009
Posts: 1,267
Johannesburg, South Africa


LG 27" 27mp65 monitor; EVGA GTX970 GPU; AMD Ryzen 3500 CPU; Corsair 750w PSU; MSI X470 mobo

RAF 1966-73 Cpl Engine Fitter (Retd.) Trenchard brat 206th Entry
DBA and systems programmer 1981-2005. Now retired since 2014

Moderated by  Polovski 

Quick Search
Recent Articles
Support SimHQ

If you shop on Amazon use this Amazon link to support SimHQ
.
Social


Recent Topics
CD WOFF
by Britisheh. 03/28/24 08:05 PM
Carnival Cruise Ship Fire....... Again
by F4UDash4. 03/26/24 05:58 PM
Baltimore Bridge Collapse
by F4UDash4. 03/26/24 05:51 PM
The Oldest WWII Veterans
by F4UDash4. 03/24/24 09:21 PM
They got fired after this.
by Wigean. 03/20/24 08:19 PM
Grown ups joke time
by NoFlyBoy. 03/18/24 10:34 PM
Anyone Heard from Nimits?
by F4UDash4. 03/18/24 10:01 PM
RIP Gemini/Apollo astronaut Tom Stafford
by semmern. 03/18/24 02:14 PM
Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.6.0