Christina In Red: Rare 1913 Color Photos Show How People Lived 100 Years Ago
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We imagine the past in black-and-white, but Mervyn O’Gorman was taking colorful photos using glass plates coated in potato starch in 1913. The technical name for this process is autochrome, and O’Gorman used it to take beautiful photos of his daughter Christina wearing red in the British countryside. As the vintage photos contain little to give their era away, they seem to be from no specific period; in fact, they almost weren’t taken at all.
These historical photos and the technology behind them are both curious side projects, neither of them being the primary invention or occupation of their authors. Autochrome was patented in 1903 by the Lumiere Brothers in France, who were most famous for their work with cinema; Mervyn O’Gorman, the one who took these old photos, is best known as a motoring pioneer and one of the greatest British aeronautical engineers of his time.
Mervin died in 1958. No details remain of Christina’s life, but Mervin’s 1913 historical pictures remain a beautiful example of what can happen by accident.
(h/t: petapixel)
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I have a black&white photo of my great-great-great grandmother from 1907 Russian Empire! Ill never know the colour of her dress! :(
I can't do it but maybe you can find someone to work on that photo for you. Search the internet, there are ways to find the colour in b/w
I know there is definitely software that can add colour to black and white photos, but it may or may not be the real colours of the photos subject. For example, someone might be able to add colour to your photo and give your great-great-great grandmother a beautiful red dress, but in reality she was wearing a purple dress. I think it is impossible to find out the actual colours of a black and white photo. Best of luck!!
There are programs out there that can colorize B & W photos.
I can try to colorize it if you want. You can see some photography I've done here: https://500px.com/leylight. Let me know if you wanna try.
can ask a colorblind person, they can differentiate between the incredibly large grayscale color corresponds to the gradient of each thing
How did they do this? maybe you can do the same: https://www.boredpanda.com/colorized-history-black-and-white-pictures-restored-in-color/
Actually there are several people who colorize black and white pictures quite successfully. Google it. :)
Actually you can. Let people who can colorize bw photos help you. Try imgur/reddit, lot of helpful people there ;-)
Actually you can. Let people who know how to colorize photos process your photo. Try imgur/reddit, a lot of helpful people there! ;-)
No hair extensions, how refreshing.
These r beautiful photos, showing how natural & modest girls used 2b!
I have a black&white photo of my great-great-great grandmother from 1907 Russian Empire! Ill never know the colour of her dress! :(
I can't do it but maybe you can find someone to work on that photo for you. Search the internet, there are ways to find the colour in b/w
I know there is definitely software that can add colour to black and white photos, but it may or may not be the real colours of the photos subject. For example, someone might be able to add colour to your photo and give your great-great-great grandmother a beautiful red dress, but in reality she was wearing a purple dress. I think it is impossible to find out the actual colours of a black and white photo. Best of luck!!
There are programs out there that can colorize B & W photos.
I can try to colorize it if you want. You can see some photography I've done here: https://500px.com/leylight. Let me know if you wanna try.
can ask a colorblind person, they can differentiate between the incredibly large grayscale color corresponds to the gradient of each thing
How did they do this? maybe you can do the same: https://www.boredpanda.com/colorized-history-black-and-white-pictures-restored-in-color/
Actually there are several people who colorize black and white pictures quite successfully. Google it. :)
Actually you can. Let people who can colorize bw photos help you. Try imgur/reddit, lot of helpful people there ;-)
Actually you can. Let people who know how to colorize photos process your photo. Try imgur/reddit, a lot of helpful people there! ;-)