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Got this from a friend who is the wife of a Greek Orthodox priest. Truly amazing. I knew photography was in use, but I did not know that color photography had alredy been developed. Dn. Robert http://blogs.denverpost.com/capture...ssian-in-the-early-1900s/comment-page-4/
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Truly wonderful look at life then. I loved the shots of the churches, mostly Orthodox, but one Roman Catholic. Then one picture where even then, the icons were wearing thin. I wonder if they were ever restored?
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Was it color photography in Nineteenth Cetury Russia?
Well it almost was.....
Seriously, thanks for posting this. Some of the colors are excellent.
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Amazing to look at these. The churches are incredibly beautiful. And the photos of the people are fascinating.
Thank you for posting this.
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Deacon Robert,
Incredible photos - all of them, churches and otherwise. Thanks for posting the link. Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii was one of the great pioneers of color photography. Although the colors that we see here have been somehat enhanced in the processes that the Library of Congress used in having them reproduced, they are, overall, very true to the originals.
Sergei actually took 3 shots for each picture, using red, blue, and green color filters. He then had to manipulate the resultant multiple images to produce the final photos in colors as true to the original as possible (and he was reportedly a perfectionist in achieving that result). No aim, shoot, and drop the camera off at Walgreen's for 1 hour developing. His output, considering the effort involved was prodigeous - 10,000 prints over a 10 year period.
Regretably, when the Library of Congress purchased the negatives some years after his repose, there were only about 2,000 of them found.
Many years,
Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Deacon Robert,
Incredible photos - all of them, churches and otherwise. Thanks for posting the link. Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii was one of the great pioneers of color photography. Although the colors that we see here have been somehat enhanced in the processes that the Library of Congress used in having them reproduced, they are, overall, very true to the originals.
Sergei actually took 3 shots for each picture, using red, blue, and green color filters. He then had to manipulate the resultant multiple images to produce the final photos in colors as true to the original as possible (and he was reportedly a perfectionist in achieving that result). No aim, shoot, and drop the camera off at Walgreen's for 1 hour developing. His output, considering the effort involved was prodigeous - 10,000 prints over a 10 year period.
Regretably, when the Library of Congress purchased the negatives some years after his repose, there were only about 2,000 of them found.
Many years,
Neil It would seem virtually impossible to get a living subject to pose exactly the same way in three consecutive shots. He must have had a lot that he had to discard. Dn. Robert
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Amazing photographs. After years of the horrors of communism, it is a bit hard to believe the place was ever that beautiful and peaceful looking.
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Someone posted this link on our parish email. Worth looking at. "Russia in color, a century ago" [ boston.com] With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer 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. The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time - when these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun. Collected here are a few of the hundreds of color images made available by the Library of Congress, which purchased the original glass plates back in 1948.
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