Europe 1906 in color

[alfredo]

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/albumMap?uname=michaelry...

[superconnected]

1. This is cool! Thanks for posting.

I see the colors look flat in those images but compared to what black and white would look like, they're awesome. I wonder if this means Google's free Picassa program will let us turn all black and whites into color photos without manual manipulation.

[alfredo]

2. I think these were color to begin with.

[Stevenmarc]

3. Yep, they're Autochromes

http://www.photographymuseum.com/exhibitstart.html

[alfredo]

4. That is wonderful. Potatoes aren't just for vodka anymore.

[superconnected]

5. Yeah, I caught on, on your other color thread.

I misinterpreted this thread to have been colorized. It's just - way more cool now.

[alfredo]

6. I seem to remember an experiment I did using a potato and iodine or

Some other such liquid. It was colorful, as I remember.

[Stevenmarc]

7. I Have

a good friend who is more into antique photographic techniques than even I am, after I took him to an exhibit of autochrome he has become hell bent on recreating the plates himself. Unfortunately the bible of autochrome processing is only written in french but I found out today that the Getty is working on a translation that is supposed to be out in 2012 and I suspect we will start seeing a few photographers working with it.

[alfredo]

8. That will be wonderful. I will see if there is a GIMP plug in

that emulates it.

[alfredo]

9. I found a filter called "Fil." that might be used to emulate

the effect. It is something like a lomo, but less destructive of the original image. It applies the effect to a layer. From there I can fade the layer as needed.

[Stevenmarc]

10. There's a tutorial

for Photoshop that hopefully might translate to GIMP

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/or/autochrome...

[alfredo]

11. Thank you. I'll look it over in the morning.