File talk:Prokudin-Gorskii-19.jpg

message: wtf?  was this pictures seriously taken in 1911...?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.189.104.220 (talk) 06:17, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. See Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.76.30.78 (talk) 13:28, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

text: It has been selected as the picture of the day for November 16, 2006. --KFP (talk | contribs) 14:43, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes

message: This picture's quality is way too good!--64.121.1.55 04:40, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As the original says, this wasn't taken as an actual color photograph. Instead, it was three monochrome images, one each of red, green, and blue. The Library of Congress recently redid several of the photographer's pictures by digitizing and combining the separate images to make one high quality color image. -- kenb215 talk 05:00, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See, now that makes more sense. That's really neat. Valley2city 21:50, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You can see it clearly due to his boots. Mallerd 18:33, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  No way! 1911? 

message: There is no way a I believe this to be a hundred year old photo. This looks like the sort of guy in some central-Asian city which dresses up for the tourists so they can have a cool souvenir pic. The color is amazing, and if it truly were 3 overlapping RGB images, then there wold be either imperfect superposition (due to the movement of the subject between one color shot and the next, oooooor, a 3D effect, like un red-blue 3D images, in which each camera for each color, being placed one next to the other, will give slightly diferent points of view. --Cuyaya 15:00, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I don't buy it 

message: I'm sorry, but I really have to laugh at some of the comments here.  Try to understand that, though these photos may be new to you, they're actually world famous, and there is no chance they are faked anymore than there's a chance the Mona Lisa is a fake.  If you're skeptical, have a look, e.g., at this image.  This is a slightly better illustration than howcheng's example above.  In the middle left of the picture, two men are strolling along the railing.  Note that they show up as a series of blue, red, and green "ghosts".  This is an artifact of the Prokudin-Gorskii color technique, one that would not crop up in a modern color photo.--129.46.237.24 20:30, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No need for sarcasm. This image perfectly shows the effects I mentioned before. Nonetheless, the picture of the fat bearded dude is remakable. Prokudin must've injected him with some sort of sedative for him to remain so still. Color overlaps are un-noticeable.--Cuyaya 13:38, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Prokudin-Gorskii is a GENIUS!!! wow....i had no idea this could be accomplished!-- Hrödberäht 02:52, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Alright, after looking at the other Prokudin-Gorskii pictures I am a bit more convinced.  This particular picture of Khan just happens to have a "cheesy" look about it.  Something about its particular sharpness and flamboyant colors makes it coincidentally resemble a modern-day prank. Xerxesnine 17:08, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

text: The Library of Congress used some advanced overlaying to combine the exposures, and not just simple linear shifting that could be done with Photoshop for example. See their page Reconstructing Prokudin-Gorskii's Color Photography in Software. --Para 13:32, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Um, yes way