[Kamui712]

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images.

all images are here:http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html


http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/prokudin_08_20/p25_00021886.jpg

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/prokudin_08_20/p28_00003945.jpg
http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/prokudin_08_20/p03_00004425.jpg

[AccordCouped]

beautiful

[dink]

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/making.html

interesting read if anyone wants to know how it was done.

[fliptuner]

Nice album but the first pic in the link remind me of some haunted, Ringu shit. I can imagine her standing on top of a well.

[BaoXu]

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/prokudin_08_20/p25_00021886.jpg



what a great pic. that coat is pure crazy!

[Shead]

sorry if i sound retarded, but what exactly makes these pictures extraordinary? im not quite following the read of black and white, 3 pictures?

[Jgresch]

They were taken 100 years ago....

[asian_XL]

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/prokudin_08_20/p25_00021886.jpg


turban, white guy, ancient chinese style outfit, modern high heel leather shoes, a sword...:rofl: you call that a Russian?

[c3m]

sorry if i sound retarded, but what exactly makes these pictures extraordinary? im not quite following the read of black and white, 3 pictures?

These pictures were taken in a time when there were no color film or digital camera. They were all black and white pictures. Three pictures were taken for each photo. The three color filters (blue, red, green) were used, thus three pictures for each photo. The color filtered pictures were later combined to create a fully colored photo that we see now.

[PiuYi]

wow you never really think of the past in colour until you see something like this

[AVS_Racing]

this is such mind fuck i cant believe these were taken 100 years ago even though i know in my mind they are

[BaoXu]

turban, white guy, ancient chinese style outfit, modern high heel leather shoes, a sword...:rofl: you call that a Russian?

he's Uzbek.

[snowball]

a repost, but a good repost!