Russia 1910 in colour.

[Centaur_Seducer]

Got this link from a friend.
About 40 pictures from Russia, mostly from the -stan area. Interesting for us that are still fumbling around with the basing
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html

And some previews:

[janner]

Fabulous - thanks for sharing

[traveller]

Amazing quality of the pictures. Many thanks!

[Hammers]

Must be the fifth time around these have been posted on LAF. Still, they are quite wonderful.

[Plynkes]

And the last time was only last week or so. Do pay attention, Double-Oh-Seven. 

[Centaur_Seducer]

You just took all my mojo.
Merry christmas. Bastards.

[Hammers]

Oh, cheer up, old bugger. I said they are quite wondeful.

[Centaur_Seducer]

Oh, cheer up, old bugger. I said they are quite wondeful.

[Jim French]

Great fotos.  They don't look colorized, but look like they were actually shot in color.  I am impressed.

[Mark Plant]

Great fotos.  They don't look colorized, but look like they were actually shot in color.  I am impressed.

Perhaps because they actually were shot in colour, maybe?

(Taking colour pictures is relatively simple. It was developing stable colour prints that was the hard bit.)

[Hammers]

Perhaps because they actually were shot in colour, maybe?

(Taking colour pictures is relatively simple. It was developing stable colour prints that was the hard bit.)

That's the bit I don't find quite clear. Were these taken as colour pics or are they Photoshoped?

[joroas]

I thought these were modern at first, they have a depth and clarity that we usually only see in current photographs, I though that they were re-enactors. He must have had a high-end camera 100 years ago. 

[Mark Plant]

That's the bit I don't find quite clear. Were these taken as colour pics or are they Photoshoped?

They were taken as colour photographs. Three separate sheets of glass, colour filtered. They have been put back together using digital techniques, but from the original colour separations. So there is no guessing of the colours – they are the real thing.

It was always issues of film that caused old colour photos and movies to be washed out, not the picture taking itself. The exact vividness of colour in the ones we see is a bit of a choice of the person doing the digital process, but all chemical based photos are like that anyway.

Old photos going back to the Crimean War are very clear, provided the target is not moving. (In a couple of the pictures it is clear that the colour plates have slipped slightly, so the colours don't align very well.)

[Hammers]

Then I am glad it's the 5th time these were posted. I learned something new this time around.