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Really Interesting WW! Photos - Technique

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Prior to the advent of color film, a Russian by the name of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) came up with an ingenious way to capture color images: take three black and white photos simultaneously, each filtered through a different color lens. In order to display them back then, he used three projectors much like big screen projection TVs.

Thanks to a bit of digital editing, we can now see back a century in full color....

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
http://www.greatwar.nl/frames/default-color6.html

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) poses near a mountain stream, thought to be the Karolitskhali River in the Caucasus Mountains near the seaport of Batumi on the eastern coast of the Black Sea.

French observator in a trench of the first line. Picture made in June 1917, near the village of Hirtzbach, Northern France

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The towers of the cathedral in Reims.
Picture made in 1917.

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  • iluvguns
    Absolutely amazing! Thanks for the link!
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  • leeblackman
    Amazing! Being an avid shutterbug myself, I am just in awe. I'd never heard or seen of this before, thank you so much for sharing.
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  • allen griggs
    Great photos. Thanks.
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  • hisbigbootygirl
    yes thank you!
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