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[TwEE-N-Toast]

Ok, let's see it then, Mr. Hotshot. I want to see her with a baby blue dress.

He is messing with you dude. You can only work with the information that was already in the photo, if the dress was yellow with blue dots you would need advanced photo editing software to retrieve that old information that is hidden in the black and white.

This took me 3 days of digging in that photo but I think I've restored her dress to exactly how it looked in real life.

 

[flyinpiranha]

/\/\/\ LMAO, well done.

 

[depths20XX]

He is messing with you dude. You can only work with the information that was already in the photo, if the dress was yellow with blue dots you would need advanced photo editing software to retrieve that old information that is hidden in the black and white.

This took me 3 days of digging in that photo but I think I've restored her dress to exactly how it looked in real life.

I knew that there was some sort of extraction process to pull out the true colors from the black and white. Thanks for the serious reply.

 

[Khalifa Jayy]

He is messing with you dude. You can only work with the information that was already in the photo, if the dress was yellow with blue dots you would need advanced photo editing software to retrieve that old information that is hidden in the black and white.

This took me 3 days of digging in that photo but I think I've restored her dress to exactly how it looked in real life.

Damn haha. That's real good.

I think it changes the perspective. But as I mentioned above, it adds a human factor to it (for me) that a B&W can sometimes negate (partially).

Yes. That photo is awesome.

 

[Max Armstrong]

Ok, let's see it then, Mr. Hotshot. I want to see her with a baby blue dress.

TwEE-N-Toast did it better than me, but because I just wasted 10 min because of you:

 

[Rapstah]

Can I get her in a brown dress with orange stripes like the guy on the right of this photo?

 

[depths20XX]

TwEE-N-Toast did it better than me, but because I just wasted 10 min because of you:

Well now I just don't know what to believe.

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

TwEE-N-Toast did it better than me, but because I just wasted 10 min because of you:

Nice work.

Colorization is such baloney.

 

[Khalifa Jayy]

Well now I just don't know what to believe.

:lol

 

[adamsappel]

Protest against integration of African-American students in Little Rock (1958)

I love those shirts, especially the one in the lower right. I dress like a '50s Southern racist!

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

I think it's neat.

Hooverville

 

[speculawyer]

Ah old generation conservatives

Racist jerks . . . but damn, at least they were in good shape. So much less obesity back then. I still wonder why.


Also, what does the bottom of that middle sign say? Is it "March of the Anti-Christ"?

 

[Auctopus]

I agree that it humanises.

Is there a source on that Capitol hill one? That is insane. Also, anyone who can look at that Sharon Tate picture and say that colourisation hasn't made strides is crazy.

 

[Raonak]

They look great

especially that shannon tate one, daymn son.

 

[Kurdel]

Racist jerks . . . but damn, at least they were in good shape. So much less obesity back then. I still wonder why.

Spoiler

Blame colorized Ronald McDonald

 

[jambo]

Best one by far!

Broadway in Saratoga Springs (c.1915)

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

Racist jerks . . . but damn, at least they were in good shape. So much less obesity back then. I still wonder why.

Also, what does the bottom of that middle sign say? Is it "March of the Anti-Christ"?

Yes, "Stop the race mixing march of the anti-christ". Charming.

That's the original for comparison.

 

[Cyd0nia]

I think it's neat.

Hooverville

I'm not American, so I had no idea that there were shanty towns during the depression - crazy!

 

[jchap]

Ah old generation democrats

fixed!

 

[temp]

Ah Communism, it'd be a shorter list to ask what it isn't according to some conservative sensibilities.

Well it's kind of funny because he's basically right. Racial equality is an aspect of communism, the Soviet Union itself putting into action policies of equality and promoting solidarity among peoples, as evidenced by this nifty set of posters.

there isn't anything humanizing here

I mean I guess the struggles and hatred that people had to endure is a reflection of the human condition, at least in regards to recent history.

 

[Jacobi]

Well it's kind of funny because he's basically right. Racial equality is an aspect of communism, the Soviet Union itself putting into action policies of equality and promoting solidarity among peoples, as evidenced by this nifty set of posters.

Damn, some of them are pretty awesome and I'd love to have prints of them

 

[Khalifa Jayy]

Racist jerks . . . but damn, at least they were in good shape. So much less obesity back then. I still wonder why.


Also, what does the bottom of that middle sign say? Is it "March of the Anti-Christ"?

One word: High Fructose Corn Syrup

 

[slit]

They bring an interesting perspective no doubt, but there is still something about B&W photography that has always been alluring to me.

 

[industrian]

Well it's kind of funny because he's basically right. Racial equality is an aspect of communism, the Soviet Union itself putting into action policies of equality and promoting solidarity among peoples, as evidenced by this nifty set of posters.

One of the USSR's retorts to being criticised by the USA for civil rights was literally "you are hanging negroes."

 

[Extra Sauce]

But it isn't technology, as far as I know. People are "colorizing" these by "hand" (lol) in Photoshop or whatever image editing software they prefer to use.

I understand what you meant but computer software is technology.

 

[Walshicus]

One of the USSR's retorts to being criticised by the USA for civil rights was literally "you are hanging negroes."

Love the "bueno" face on the guy in the lower left.

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

I understand what you were trying to say, but it is technology.

I'm sure it was different by the 50's but WWI colour photos have an almost painted effect because of the long exposures required due to the colour film/plates of the time not being very sensitive.

Here's The first colour photographs from the German front line during World War One from the Telegraph. Some of them don't look too diferent to colourised B&W images.

 

[Valhelm]

Ojibwe man fishing in 1908

"Slivers", a Swedish immigrant who drew huge crowds with his baseball-themed antics until his suicide in 1915.

 

[Camp Lo]

Barring JFK Jr., the Kennedys were some ugly fucking people. Good lord.

 

[Cameron122]

Been reading a lot of history books lately. Antiquity and Middle Ages, specifically. During my reading of the dramatic events of history, sometimes I get taken aback by remembering that these history defining people are just people. People with childhoods, learning experiences, first loves, inside jokes.

Spoiler

they fart.

It's surreal man.

More on topic, I agree with OP. It is humanizing.

 

[speculawyer]

One of the USSR's retorts to being criticised by the USA for civil rights was literally "you are hanging negroes."

Yep, during the cold war, the USSR used to chastise the USA over the USA's record on race relations. And sadly, they had a good point.

But at this point, I'd say we've past them on these human rights matters as they are still stuck in the homophobia era.

 

[Extra Sauce]

"Slivers", a Swedish immigrant who drew huge crowds with his baseball-themed antics until his suicide in 1915.

I wasn't planning on sleeping tonight anyway.

 

[Thursday War]

Photography isn't necessarily about capturing what is real.

that explains all those UFO photos

 

[Khalifa Jayy]

Ojibwe man fishing in 1908

"Slivers", a Swedish immigrant who drew huge crowds with his baseball-themed antics until his suicide in 1915.

Awesome find. Slivers is especially haunting. Damn.

 

[Aesius]

The one of Nashville is absolutely incredible. 1860s photo with that level of fidelity and clarity. Wow.

 

[pauljeremiah]

Colour is sometimes too realistic and distracting. It projects superfluous emotional cues. It reduces people to inhabitants of the mere world. Black and white (or, more accurately, silver and white) creates a mysterious dream state, a world of form and gesture. Most people do not agree with me. They like colour and think black and white films or pictures are missing something.

Try this. If you have wedding photographs of your parents and grandparents, chances are that your parents are in colour and your grandparents are in black and white. Put the two photographs side by side and consider them honestly. Your grandparents look timeless. Your parents look goofy.

 

[FrostuTheNinja]

 

[speculawyer]

The crew cut, the pants hiked up high, the cop sunglasses . . . . but tongue really puts it over the top.

 

[The Technomancer]

Ah old generation conservatives

This one looks the most real to me

 

[Dylan]

edit: never mind got it working.

 

[kess]

I'm sure it was different by the 50's but WWI colour photos have an almost painted effect because of the long exposures required due to the colour film/plates of the time not being very sensitive.

Here's The first colour photographs from the German front line during World War One from the Telegraph. Some of them don't look too diferent to colourised B&W images.

They were probably using Autochrome plates which were a pretty funky process. If you like that kind of stuff, there's more here.

Produkin-Gorsky's stuff looks pretty "real" especially when cleaned up with a computer. Pretty good looking considering this is more than 100 years old. Obviously this was color by intent.

 

[mantidor]

Cab Stand @ Madison Square Garden (c.1900)

Broadway in Saratoga Springs (c.1915)

People dressed so nicely in the past. D: To hell with practicality, they look freaking good. At the very least hats should make a comeback, awesome looking and actually have practical use.

 

[temp]

Yep, during the cold war, the USSR used to chastise the USA over the USA's record on race relations. And sadly, they had a good point.

But at this point, I'd say we've past them on these human rights matters as they are still stuck in the homophobia era.

Well I hate to make an obvious point here, but the USSR doesn't exist anymore, so there's no comparison. Modern Russia has different factors acting upon its social structure.

 

[televator]

I'm not American, so I had no idea that there were shanty towns during the depression - crazy!

The truly free America that the Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch currently strive for...

 

[The Mule]

What blows my mind is seeing old paintings from the 1600-1800s and reminding myself that what I'm looking at is how people actually lived and dressed in those times. It boggles my mind how much culture has changed in human history.

Humans are so fucking weird, then and now.

 

[UnforgivenTwin]

People dressed so nicely in the past. D: To hell with practicality, they look freaking good. At the very least hats should make a comeback, awesome looking and actually have practical use.

Completely agree. I especially love the styles of the 1950's with the awesome suits and the long rain coats. I would look great in that haha

 

[Unbound By Death]

So good.

 

[MacNille]

One of the worst pic in the history of the internet.

 

[Lucian Cat]

These are pretty cool. We have some photos of my grandparents from when they were younger that were coloured in by someone many years ago. Looks very similar to these images.

Thanks for linking them

 

[Jezan]

For me it depends on the pic and how they are colorized, many look like paintings.

The picture of Tesla, in black and white he is attractive, but in color he looks so hot!