20 Historic Black and White Photos Colorized

[RE:up]

An interesting collection of old B&W photos including some Hollywood stars, A. Einstein, Mark Twain, along with several unknown persons, and a rather well known disaster.

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[freeradical]

Did they colorize any Ansel Adams photos?

[RE:up]

Ansel Adams did his own color work. "They" didn't need to do it for him.

Ansel Adams in color

[ztirffritz]

Audrey Hepburn looks fine no matter what color she is.

[hal]

Some of those are wonderful and some are terrible...

[Speedy]

ztirffritz wrote:
Audrey Hepburn looks fine no matter what color she is.

Yes. Grace Kelly, too. Breathtaking beauty.

[eustacetilley]

Normally, I would be opposed to this, just as I was opposed to what Turner was doing. (Ted, not William...) But I was surprised at some of the quality here. Nice work.

Aybody care to have a hand at this one?



It's the oldest surviving photograph, or rather a copy of it.

Eustace

[hal]

eustacetilley wrote:
Normally, I would be opposed to this, just as I was opposed to what Turner was doing. (Ted, not William...) But I was surprised at some of the quality here. Nice work.

I was able to forgive turner when I learned that before a film could be colorized, it needed to be restored first. They fixed an awful lot of movies for all time in the process. And no one forced me to watch colorized movies once!

[deckeda]

I rather enjoyed those even though prepared not to like them initially. In particular the color adds information and depth that makes it easier to learn what the image is. True, some work better than others.

Films remain a challenge. We got a DVD of four horse-themes movies. One is The Story of Seabiscuit, with Shirley Temple in the 40s although Barry Fitzgerald is the real star here. Colorized, but there's about a 15-20 minute stretch that's black and white for some reason. The colorized sections have inconsistent hues across the screen and as the lighting changes. Some parts are fine.

[Grateful11]

As much as I like B&W I have to say the colorization does add a somewhat different prospective on some of the photos.