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[Cdammen]

Panzers? I thought all WWII german tanks were Panzers so I might be wrong.

Yeah they look like Panzer I and II but they're too small. I'm Googling but I haven't found them yet.

 

[half a moon]

Yeah they look like Panzer I and II but they're too small. I'm Googling but I haven't found them yet.

looks to be a Panzer IB http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panzer_I_B_(3d_model_izo).jpeg

i cant find a good reference of all the variants.

 

[hadareud]

amazing stuff

 

[lowrider007]

Just tried touching up a few of the German pics.

 

[joshcryer]

You can find original scans of the autochrome (1900s color) stuff at the Library of Congress website and use photoshop to create your own versions.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/p?pp/agc:@field(SUBJ+@od1(Autochromes+))

 

[Steppenwolf]

They looked better before.

 

[lowrider007]

They looked better before.

yeah, I see what you mean <rolleyes>

Here are two of the originals.

 

[Shiggie]

A Shit load here.
http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/

 

[Arcipello]

my favourite thus far... the flying bathtub

 

[Steppenwolf]

yeah, I see what you mean <rolleyes>

Here are two of the originals.

Adding contrast and sharpen filter doesn't make them look better. Your versions look less life like then the originals.

 

[atomico]

neat

 

[lowrider007]

Adding contrast and sharpen filter doesn't make them look better. Your versions look less life like then the originals.

If you think that's all that went into those retouches then you don't know the first thing about photography, the originals have character because of their age but they are far from what the scenes would of looked liked with a human eye, my retouches were done to make the scenes look more true to life, to give people a more realistic glimpse into the past that's all.

 

[CurlySaysX]

America in the 30s/40s looked so awesome.

 

[JzeroT1437]

WTF, there was color in 1915?

THE PRE-60's WHEN EVERYTHING WAS STILL BLACK, GRAY, OR WHITE.

Seriously, this thread is awesome. I love photography.

 

[bengraven]

 

[Garryk]

Yeah they look like Panzer I and II but they're too small. I'm Googling but I haven't found them yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tanks_in_World_War_II#Overview_per_tank

Most likely a Panzer I.

 

[Dabanton]

These are great.

 

[painey]

The Nazi party had shitty ideals and did fucked up things, but damned if they didnt do it in style. Seeing everyone standing to attention to Hitler must have been a sight to beyond.

 

[guidop]

wow so beautiful

 

[Phobophile]

Anyone remember that website showing a lot of WWII photos in Kodachrome?

 

[Insane Metal]

1909

By the Russian Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

Explanation on how he did that and more pics http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

I win?

 

[DrEvil]

Weak thread.

And here's a stereoscopic photo from that era:

Crappy time all around to be living in.

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-37025.html

That stereoscopic one is awesome.. I love stereoscopic pics and that one is just pretty slick all around.

It's like you're sort of actually there, I half expected them to start moving.

 

[y2dvd]

I like how that one cannon is pointing directly at them lol. I'd be scared shitless thinking it might go off.

 

[iFootball]

awesome photos! mind blown

 

[mAcOdIn]

Considering it's a canon being transported on the back of a car I highly doubt they'd transport it loaded, that's something you'd see in F-Troop not an actual army.

 

[Dirtyshubb]

Really interesting stuff, i remember seeing footage from the nazi's that was in colour.

Funy story, when i was young i used to think the world was in black and white in those days I also thought the black market was an actual place that was dark and dingy where you could buy all maner of illegal things

 

[Mohonky]

It's so unusual seeing that stuff in colour. There's a certain detachment seeing it in black and white, like it's not quite real. When you see it in colour it has a real authenticity that gets lost in the usual black and white shots. It's so surreal.

 

[adamsappel]

Fascinating! It's so easy to assume people's clothing was just solid dark, bland colors back then.

 

[Calcaneus]

These pictures are seriously amazing. Don't know why, but I immediately think of the late 1800s-early 1900s as being in black and white. While when I imagine times earlier (1600s, or even Byzantium), I imagine them in color for some reason.

 

[Big-E]

HOLY FUCK. Was I the only one who thought the only reason some of the photographs were colour back in this time frame were due to people adding it in at a later date? Mind blown.

 

[Rorschach]

The pics in the OP are awesome.

 

[daw840]

That was very nice. Thanks for posting.

 

[XiaNaphryz]

Bah, early 1900s? Get something from the Civil War era in color and I'll be impressed.

Spoiler

These are awesome.

 

[skybaby]

Wait, the world was actually colored back then?!?!

 

[hadareud]

These pictures are seriously amazing. Don't know why, but I immediately think of the late 1800s-early 1900s as being in black and white. While when I imagine times earlier (1600s, or even Byzantium), I imagine them in color for some reason.

same for me.

I guess it's because we're so used to seeing everything being black and white from back then that it's manifested itself in our heads so much that we can't even imagine it in colour anymore.

While there's no black and white photographs from before then, only colour paintings.

 

[aparisi2274]

Man those are some amazing pictures..

As someone who takes a lot of pictures, these are fantastic.

Also, as disgusting as Nazi Germany was, I would have loved to walk around during that time and photograph a lot of that...

Same goes for anywhere during WWII.

 

[Pre]

It's absolutely amazing to look at some of these - they look so real. It seems like we're detached from the reality of how things appeared in those days. We think of them in terms of black and white as though they're almost fake, but this is so fucking real.

 

[NYR]

Wicked, thanks for sharing!!

 

[Teknoman]

Really like this one for some reason.

 

[R0nn]

Absolutely amazing. Really brings those eras to life.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

1909

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/7503/projkjsj.jpg[/IMG]
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/8391/prokd.jpg[/IMG]
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/2648/prokjhsg.jpg[/IMG]
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/8971/proks.jpg[/IMG]
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/3023/prokudingorskii09edit2.jpg[/IMG]

By the Russian Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

Explanation on how he did that and more pics http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

I win?

:O

That looks like as if they'd shot those pictures nowadays.

 

[btkadams]

wow. pictures from those days WITH colour actually makes it seem to more relatable you know? i always see black and white pics from those days and the people seem so different, but in those pictures they look just like people today! except they don't have ipods.

 

[Cereal KiIIer]

New York City (around 1900)

 

[Rapping Granny]

Evil cow is genious, poison the nazis with her sour milk.

 

[Warm Machine]

Well, Snow White was 37 and Wizard of Oz was 39. Colour film obviously existed, whether it was available to photographers before that was the question. It was Colour TV that appeared quite late on the scene.

Still, great images and I'm more so impressed by the the sharpness of some of the images. I once saw a TV show on A&E or History or something that was all film footage of pre war Nazi Germany and it was all in colour.

 

[{Mike}]

Say what you want, nazis are all kind of awesome from a visual point of view (not what they did). I mean, they had a (stolen) great logo, great uniforms, and a military which reminds me of China's one today.

 

[Dark Octave]

Cool stuff.

 

[Tarazet]

New York City (around 1900)

That looks like a painting. How the heck could they have gotten such clarity in such a busy place with the lousy exposure times they had back then?

 

[Confusion Illusion]

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j270/JohnnyGunn/FSA_IL_Chicago_CNW_Roundhouse.jpg
Really like this one for some reason.

Oh my, the atmosphere. Really Amazing photos.

 

[i heart sluts]

New York City (around 1900)

Looks like they added the color later