Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky - Russia 1905-1915 (slideshow for Fotojatka 2010)

[@rich1051414]

So you understand, he took 3 pictures of each scene, each with a different color filter in front of the camera, red green and blue, then he merged the images to get a color photo. When something moved between shots, it caused chromatic aberrations, if you were wondering why certain things look strange.

[@tcohmemsyy]

His ability should be more admired for this reason. He had to carefully set these scenes to ensure all of his subjects stayed as still as possible. In the Khan's photo you can see him leaning slightly on his sword holster for stability. It's also important to note that back when these were taken it was very difficult to actually see them in color because complicated devices were required to put the RGB channels together into a single image. Thankfully today we can just import and align the channels in Photoshop :)

[@YaYeVlad]

What's crazy is that even the youngest kids in these photos have already lived a full life and passed away, at least the ones that survived the wars.

[@hypn0298]

Hell many of their children are dead too.

[@geokrilov]

They could be killed during revolutionб civil war and during "collectivisation".

[@ap0kalyps3]

this is so jarring, thinking that those pictures are taken more than 100 years ago, when you only know black and white images from this era, seeing pictures which are not recolored is just awesome

[@-xxxuchihacion-3318]

When its white and black it seems of a different world

[@panchikofan123]

The quality of those pictures is impressive considering that they were shot during the early 20th century.

[@joekreissl4499]

High quality photos have existed for a long time. They usually just aren’t well-preserved. Digital was initially a big step back.There’s a gap of time during much of the 2000s decade where there’s very few film photographs but digital photos from then are not in particularly high resolution. I had a digital camera in 2005 but I didn’t have a memory card that could hold more than 20 low-resolution photos until the beginning of 2008. Memory cards were bloody expensive early on.

[@maxthemagition]

Astonishing.! The quality and technology are both way ahead of it's time.

[@aaronberns8485]

These photos could easily be mistaken for a photo taken in the 70s and 80s or perhaps even today.

[@politicstoday8002]

The picutures are like 4k on wikipedia

[@DynoGames101]

i came here from the 8 bit guy🙂

[@ericww1993]

Lol same with me

[@ImTheDot]

Me too

[@calibvr]

oh he did a video on this?

[@WindowsDrawer]

Beautiful, looks like it was taken in the 80's and not the 1900's

[@petarkresimir5199]

Was curious about when was the first colored photo taken and ended up here on sergej slideshow, absolutely mind-blowing... that quality and sense for photography in those days is so ahead of it's time

[@geokrilov]

Those photos are modern reconstructions wish digital processing. The original photo existed on three black and white glass plates. If they needed to get real colored picture they printed it with three colors. And those contained some color fringing on the edges.

[@PeterPan-iz1kk]

Very good presentation, and many pictures I'd not seen before. Thanks!

[@AkaChales2012]

It makes think about one's existence when you realize how every single person in this pictures is probably dead already.

[@torpedo996]

Not probably. For sure. It's over 100 years ago.

[@knottsscary]

i’m really high watching this thinking of the exact same😂

[@aquelpibe]

I think we can safely omit the "probably".

[@Jacob-yg7lz]

>Probably

[@wmm771]

>100 years ago >probably alive pick one

[@zadeh79]

Great Video! I was amazed when I found out about Gorsky's photography

[@kachala]

me too

[@MsAcegee]

Excellent, thank you x

[@larscarpelan4488]

AMAZING!

[@sca8217]

That first music reminded my of slowly descending , self destroying bricks.

[@luckyowl249]

An unbelievable treasure!

[@МарияТ-я6ю]

Thank you so much, wonderful!

[@cristinanieto683]

People, the spil of a country. Beautiful.

[@BenyaminTieh]

Magick

[@knottsscary]

Tetris!

[@user-bl1cbrA9o]

The Russian folk song playing while the slides show people of different ethnicities, a lot of them non-Russian, is quite jarring.

[@emmanuelucrosacosta1845]

Russian Empire...

[@jmgol1982]

Superbe reproduction et avec en plus tous l'âme de la musique russe , Bravo !!!

[@ttaibe]

List of the music used would have been nice.

[@grimoire7851]

dont analize details watch mood of the era it was offgrid time

[@AdhamOhm]

5:37 Hungarian POWs in a Russian prison camp, taken early in the Great War.

[@kosiak10851]

you mean austrian. It was an Austrian Empire

[@msa8679]

WoW

[@msa8679]

Old Russia looks similar to New Afganistan

[@danielforeroc]

Most photos were taken in Central Asia and the Caucasus, Tsar Nicholas sent Sergey to take pictures of the frontier because he wanted to know how life was for his subjects there.

[@avus-kw2f213]

That’s because some of the photographs are from the Emirate of Bukhara

[@jonathanferiza8966]

what song?

[@mrnemo204]

Korobiniki

[@user-bl1cbrA9o]

@@mrnemo204 You spell it wrong. Korobeyniki.

[@knowledgehunter6101]

115-105 years old colorized photos with that quality is amazing.

[@francispauwels1071]

Not colourized mind you, they were taken like that by combining 3 different pictures with red, blue and green filters

[@avus-kw2f213]

I am a imperialist 🟨🟨⬜️⬜️ 🟨🟨🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟥🟥