Re:Russia in color, a century ago
by daeken on Friday September 07, 2012 @09:34PM
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Do you happen to have any insight into the processing of the film? I'm very curious as to how you'd process the plates into the specific colors needed for this to get anything close to life-like representations. I imagine these representations of the photos were taken from the raw negatives.
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Re:Russia in color, a century ago
by simcop2387 on Friday September 07, 2012 @10:05PM
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Judging by some of the artifacts i saw in the images i'm not even sure it was film. I think it may have been glass plates that were used for these. In a few there are areas where it looks like the substrate had flaked off of the negative when they made the positives.
Given that wikipedia says that film was starting to take over around this era I'd say that it's quite possible that it was all photographic plates since to do this well with something you'd have to have a good amount of experience with it and I wonder how much film and the processing would have reached Russia yet by then.
Re:Russia in color, a century ago
by artursapek on Friday September 07, 2012 @09:54PM
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They were black and whites taken with color filters over the lens (R, G, B).
Project each of the three in its corresponding color and overlap them to produce a full-color photo. Overlap them in that color in Photoshop to produce the digital images you see here.
How would you project them in their corresponding colors, though? I'd imagine you would have to produce prints in the colors. Only other thing I can think of is to project the negatives with R/G/B colored light behind them and make those projections line up.
Colored lanterns is how he projected them in color, according to the article.