pop Posted August 20, 2016 Share #1 Posted August 20, 2016 Advertisement (gone after registration) My son sent me the following link. His comment: "Very funny but much like the russian dancing bear." http://demos.algorithmia.com/colorize-photos/ 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted August 20, 2016 Posted August 20, 2016 Hi pop, Take a look here PP for the discerning Monochrom user. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Exodies Posted August 20, 2016 Share #2 Posted August 20, 2016 Leica should implement it in firmware in their colourless cameras. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted August 20, 2016 Share #3 Posted August 20, 2016 Leica should implement it in firmware in their colourless cameras. Now that is an interesting mental twist: buy a monochrome camera to produce colour photographs by postprocessing... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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250swb Posted August 21, 2016 Share #5 Posted August 21, 2016 As an automated online service I imagine this is done with the same software that colorizes B&W motion picture stock, a staple technique for jazzing up wartime documentaries and such like. For a more refined raping of historical context see here http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/01/18/10184368-colorization-of-historical-works-improvement-or-blasphemy Steve Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exodies Posted August 21, 2016 Share #6 Posted August 21, 2016 Improvement Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tobey bilek Posted September 14, 2016 Share #7 Posted September 14, 2016 Advertisement (gone after registration) People have been hand coloring photos forever. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert M Poole Posted September 21, 2016 Share #8 Posted September 21, 2016 It just gives my pictures a weird yellow/red tinge not nearly colour. My grandpa used to hand colour images, I was always fascinated by the results. Sent from my E6653 using Tapatalk Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted September 23, 2016 Share #9 Posted September 23, 2016 People have been hand coloring photos forever. Yes, but as they went along, in the same historical era as when the picture was made. This is far different to the industrialised re-colouring of history by searching back into archives for something to colour. It is the photographic equivalent of a museum that instead of arranging exhibits into era or context they arrange everything according to size. We now have images where people genuinely don't know they've been coloured today, and which then devalue those coloured contemporaneously not to mention devaluing early colour photography as a whole. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exodies Posted September 23, 2016 Share #10 Posted September 23, 2016 isn't that how everything is revalued, by the creation of other things? You build a hundred cars a year, hardly anyone can afford them. You build a million a year and lotsa people can. Value should be spread around rather than being locked up in a few goods. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted September 23, 2016 Share #11 Posted September 23, 2016 A venerable technique. Copperplate prints have been hand-coloured for centuries, as have been monochrome images since photography was invented, It only fell in disuse with the advent of popular colour film for widespread use, basically since the 1950ies Anyway, I was not terribly impressed with this algorithm, it was not far beyond split toning on the images I presented. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted September 23, 2016 Author Share #12 Posted September 23, 2016 Yes, and there was Photochrom. The Wikipedia has a few nice samples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochrom 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted September 23, 2016 Share #13 Posted September 23, 2016 Thank you for that link. Those are beautiful colours and tones, I doubt whether that could be replicated nowadays. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff S Posted September 23, 2016 Share #14 Posted September 23, 2016 I can hear the Paul Simon of the day singing the praises of Photochrom. Jeff Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted September 23, 2016 Share #15 Posted September 23, 2016 Errr.. Would that be Caruso? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff S Posted September 23, 2016 Share #16 Posted September 23, 2016 More variety than you'd think... http://thetop100songsofalltime.com/top-100-songs-of-the-1890s/ Jeff Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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