Author Topic: Colour photos from WW1 (Read 1045 times)

« **on:** April 11, 2005, 11:12:54 AM »

I found this site.

http://www.mediatheque-patrimoine.culture.gouv.fr/fr/archives_photo/visites_guidees/autochromes.html

Im not sure how the colour was determined here, but I have seen other colour photos from early 1900 taken by a Russian photographer when he documented the Russian Empire.
He used a technique where he took three photos of the same object, each photo captured the Red, Green and Blue colours via different filters. When you added Cyan, Magenta and Yellow filters to each photograph and put them together the result was a photograph in colour.

« **Reply #1 on:** April 11, 2005, 11:24:36 AM »

More here
http://www.alexemde.de/index.php/autochromes/category/C1/

http://www.alexemde.de/index.php/autochromes/

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The Autochrome was the first viable colour photograph process, and was invented in 1904 by the Lumire brothers. The Autochrome "screen" was created by forming a layer of minute starch grains dyed in the primary colours (red, blue and green), behind which was a layer of panchromatic film. When the picture was taken these starch grains acted as tiny filters on the film. The film was then subjected to reversal development, and then viewed, as a transparency, though an identical screen. The pictures, though dark by present day standards, were delicate and of a soft pastel nature.

This is really something.

« **Reply #2 on:** April 11, 2005, 11:56:13 AM »

Nice find.

Very interesting stuff.

clips · « **Reply #3 on:** April 11, 2005, 12:02:56 PM »

nice pics fats...*moves this to C.E.*

« **Reply #4 on:** April 11, 2005, 12:16:37 PM »

Awesome Fast! Thanks for sharing.

« **Reply #5 on:** April 11, 2005, 12:42:06 PM »

Someone should tell clips WW1 happened about 90 years ago so this would hardly qualify to be in CURRENT Events...

By the way, what army are those soldiers?

« **Reply #6 on:** April 11, 2005, 12:49:17 PM »

Thats pretty cool

CHIZZY · « **Reply #7 on:** April 11, 2005, 12:54:51 PM »

* inserts quotes under the pictures of the bruthas*

*Sheeeit, I finally got a job! By the way, what does cannon fodder mean?"

I wonder what country (read: British / french colony) they were conscripted from....

« **Reply #8 on:** April 11, 2005, 01:22:22 PM »

The black soldiers are from at the time French colony Senegal.

Here are some soldiers from Australia.

Here are men from Algeria (also a French colony)

I am no expert in WW1 uniforms, but most of the white folks look like Frenchmen to me.

clips · « **Reply #9 on:** April 11, 2005, 03:22:22 PM »

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Originally posted by Ashford
Someone should tell clips WW1 happened about 90 years ago so this would hardly qualify to be in CURRENT Events...

By the way, what army are those soldiers?

heh heh yea...silly me! i thought anything that dealt with politics or war had to go into C.E....you\'re right tho

Titan · « **Reply #10 on:** April 11, 2005, 04:48:18 PM »

I saw a show on the History Channel where they did the battles of WWI in color. They must have taken original film and used computers or something to add color.

« **Reply #11 on:** April 12, 2005, 04:13:06 AM »

In the artcrowd they always rave about how black/white photo\'s are so much more \'authentic\'.

Seeing photographs like this only confirms my opinion that those ppl were talking utter crap. Heh, I knew I was right all along.

Thanx Fastson. These pics rock

« **Reply #12 on:** April 12, 2005, 09:41:23 AM »

France had/has a military?

« **Reply #13 on:** April 12, 2005, 10:19:07 AM »

ask gman he is old enough to know about colorization

« **Reply #14 on:** April 12, 2005, 01:27:00 PM »

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Originally posted by fastson

I am no expert in WW1 uniforms, but most of the white folks look like Frenchmen to me.

What do you mean, I don\'t see them running?

Hello

Author Topic: Colour photos from WW1 (Read 1045 times)