Yeah, those are cool. Some pretty amazing images in there.
The colorful Russian's self portrait, 1915
On Wikipedia there was recently discussion on sharpening Prokudin-Gorskii 3 plate images with Photoshop.
Wikipedia has even used a few of his pics to illustrate articles, such as Peony. Yay for the public domain, even if we're eternally stuck in 1922.
As a collector of old National Geographics (cheap yard/junk sale finds only, so my collection is very sparce and spotty pre 1920) I'm familiar with the fact that color photography did not come on the scene in the 1950s nor at the 1939 World's Fair, it was around but expensive and difficult long before. I scanned a 1914 Nat'nl Geo pic to illustrate Butter.
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Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Wikipedia Cha Cha Cha, In Living Color!
Date: 2004-01-31 07:45 pm (UTC)The colorful Russian's self portrait, 1915
On Wikipedia there was recently discussion on sharpening Prokudin-Gorskii 3 plate images with Photoshop.
Wikipedia has even used a few of his pics to illustrate articles, such as Peony. Yay for the public domain, even if we're eternally stuck in 1922.
As a collector of old National Geographics (cheap yard/junk sale finds only, so my collection is very sparce and spotty pre 1920) I'm familiar with the fact that color photography did not come on the scene in the 1950s nor at the 1939 World's Fair, it was around but expensive and difficult long before. I scanned a 1914 Nat'nl Geo pic to illustrate Butter.