Colour Photographs from Tsarist Russia, 100 years ago

[Xelebes]

Taken from 1907-1915, it gives you a peak at what life was like in the age when a Tsar was supreme and the people who toiled the land were peasants and nobility oversaw them.

Click on the image titles to see the Images.

 

[Pyan]

Moved to History...

 

[Arwena]

Those are some of the most fascinating photos I have seen! Great! Foes this mean that all ancient photos can now be colorized?

 

[Xelebes]

Moved to History...

Oops, forgot about this forum. Thank you.

 

[Sephiroth]

Thanks for posting this. These pics are fantastic!

 

[Wybren]

These photos a brilliant, I am amazed at the colour rendering, how real it looks. I am curious how they came to choose the colours in some of there clothing though, is there some kind of way you can figure out a colour by the shade of the grey in the originals or do they just guess? either way they are beautifully done

 

[Ursa major]

Thanks for posting that link, Xelebes. Wonderful stuff.

 

[Xelebes]

These photos a brilliant, I am amazed at the colour rendering, how real it looks. I am curious how they came to choose the colours in some of there clothing though, is there some kind of way you can figure out a colour by the shade of the grey in the originals or do they just guess? either way they are beautifully done

The photos were shot thrice in three different colours - red, green and blue. The photos were then super-imposed to get the full colour.

 

[Wybren]

Cool!

I found the explaination here incase anyone else was interested.

Making Color Images from Prokudin-Gorskii's Negatives - The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii PhotographicRecord Recreated (A Library of Congress Exhibition)

 

[The Judge]

Incredible - you could think they were taken only yesterday, the images are so good. And I don't pretend to understand how they achieve such vibrant colours.

Thanks for posting the link.

J

 

[Arwena]

Here is my favorite Russian picture, a group of merchants from 1850, I wish it could be colorized.

 

[Drachir]

Great pictures. Thanks for the link.