Long before the introduction of color film, a Russian chemist and photographer named Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used an innovative technique. He took three individual black and white photos, each through a colored filter (red, green, and blue), to create fully colored, high-quality pictures. The photo of this woman, taken by him, is around 107 years old!
No wait I looked this guy up and this shit’s amazing
It’s so incredibly humanizing to see people from the very distant past in such authentic color
And like. look at these landscape shots!! They’re so vivid!! Even aside from the historical value, these are just legitimately beautiful photographs
Every photo I take is done practically with very little digital work, using household items to create special effects like cotton wool for fire and foil for water. A lot of work goes into what I do each set is meticulously set up for just the one scene then dismantled and used for something else later on so you won’t see the same set up twice.
I love the hands on approach and physically adjusting real figures and setting up the environments to create these miniature worlds. Then when the lighting comes into play you can explore all different types of worlds from middle earth to a galaxy far far away or even under the sea. All from the confines of my living room.
I hope that you enjoy my miniature creations and if you have or know of anybody that could help me further progress in this or help me gain more exposure towards paid work please do pass on my details…
i have an ancient box camera from the late 40s. takes 120 film. Absolutely unfair good images out of this thing.
This is the 1940s equivalent of a disposable Kodak, it’s terrible but because modern film stock is so fucking good it just rips absolute ass. No I don’t have any pictures they’re scanning shut up.
the shutter speed is “yes” and the aperture is “sure, why not”
it turns out when you have a negative that’s 60x70 mm that you don’t really need the world’s best glass
Beeg Pitchoor
this just isn’t fair. this is like a toddler walking into a chess tournament and beating a high schooler
Fun fact: This is all on expiredlomography metropolis. if it were in-date film it’d look even better. I dont have any in-date metropolis in 120 but i have a roll of it in 35mm that i’m gonna load up once i’ve finished my current roll of Kodak ColorPlus 200 (cheap color film that looks better than it should)
Here’s Catlabs X Film 100 in 35 though, which is kinda similar in terms of range
this shit is so cool. here is a fun history fact: the sheer size of old photography, like this camera and glass plate exposures and tintypes etc, where you’re getting many square inches of exposed film or glass or tin for a single exposure, are some of the best archival photography you can do, because the resolution is crazy insane. its like the ESPER device in blade runner, you can just keep zooming into it forever. it preserves unbelievable detail. you can read headlines on newspapers inside newspaper boxes in crowded street scenes and so on. i love this shit
Hi, I just wanted to share this photo I took. I think in fact, the most Photograph I have ever taken. No, this is not AI, this is a real photo, and whenever I look at it I feel like Tom Haverford staring at that abstract painting in Parks and Rec. Also I took it out the window of a car going 100kph, so, uh, yeah.
The discovery of the statue of Antinous in Delphi, Greece in 1894
Really obsessed with this one like how old cameras worked making everyone blurry against the statue and just makes you realize how long the statue has been right. There.
