World War I in color

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2005-02-07 03:37am

56k enter at your own risk!

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2005-02-07 04:20am

I posted that allready not so long ago

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2005-02-07 12:27pm

Either they are actual WW1 color pics,pics from a movie or recently colorised pics

Medic · Post by **Medic** » 2005-02-08 07:26am

Montcalm wrote:Either they are actual WW1 color pics,pics from a movie or recently colorised pics

I'd hazard a movie: nearly all of them are in the sun, no wheather here. Everything looks too pristine. Still... some have a definite colored in look while the people certainly look the part as well. I'm ---- ambivalent.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-02-08 07:45am

i'd say either reinactment or photoshopped, but otherwise not bad.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2005-02-08 08:06am

They look colorized to me.

EDIT:
In fact, there was a documentary released a while back with all-colorized WWI photos, so there's nothing inherently implausible about it.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-02-08 04:51pm

While they look similar to a colour process that was available at the time, they're off by enough that they look quite fake.

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » 2005-02-08 05:18pm

If you go further down that page, it says that those pictures are from a French archive that was digitally colorized.

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2005-02-09 01:41am

If you look (gasp) even further down the thread, it's said that they were actually taken in color using an early chromatic photography method.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-02-09 01:43am

Seggybop wrote:If you look (gasp) even further down the thread, it's said that they were actually taken in color using an early chromatic photography method.

But it doesn't look right. It's off.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2005-02-09 02:46am

So they were digitally colorized. Spanky, BTW, could you provide an example of real WWI color photos? I'm mildly interested in photography and I'd appreciate a link.

I'm almost certain I've seen that pic of the Sengelese sitting around in black and white, so I doubt they're fake.

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2005-02-09 06:20pm

If they were taken using an early and probably imperfect method, and have also been around for about 90 years, I would be more suspicious if the color wasn't a bit off.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-02-09 06:28pm

No, by "off," I mean that it doesn't look right to be the actual process at the time. I've seen images of modern photographs done using the same process, and it looks similar but doesn't exactly match up. These photographs simply look colourised rather than using an actual process.