Colourised black & white photographs

[easynow]

Charlie Chaplin at the age of 27, 1916

Titanic

Japanese Archers, circa 1860

Easter Eggs for Hitler

Nazi Rally

Joseph Goebbels scowling at photographer Albert Eisenstaedt after finding out he's jewish

15 year old Hungarian freedom fighter, Budapest 1956

Auto Wreck in Washington D.C, 1921

Old Bailey rises defiantly while all around it buildings have become jagged shells in a landscape scarred by the relentless German bombings

Double-decker bus is still visible amid crumbling tarmac and bent girders left in an enormous crater caused by a bomb which landed in the middle of a Balham high street, south London

Albert Einstein

Nikola Tesla, 1893

Audrey Hepburn, 1954

Big Jay McNeely driving the crowd at the Olympic Auditorium into a frenzy, Los Angeles, 1953

Boy holding a stuffed toy animal. London, 1945.

British troops board train England, September 20, 1939

British author, Virginia Woolf, 1902

Instrument installer, USA

Engine installer WW2, USA

Fuselage installer,USA

 

[Norman Potting]

I'll post something then. Did you do them yourself or did someone else?

 

[easynow]

I'll post something then. Did you do them yourself or did someone else?

No, just a bit of searching on google images.

 

[easynow]

Broadway, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1915.

Winston Churchill

Albert Einstein

German soldiers colourised 1913

Meditating protesting monk sets himself on fire

 

[Paul Reids Sock]

Really rather interesting looking through them. A lot of history captured and the photograph of the young boy with his toy will stay with me for a long time.

Since my son was born I can't bare to see children upset or in pain and it just shows how easy the majority of our lives have been and are yet we complain a lot!

 

[DumLum]

Thanks for posting. History feels closer in colour.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

http://twistedsifter.com/2012/05/blending-scenes-from-wwii-into-present-day/
Ghost from WW2 walk in todays world

 

[Brightonfan1983]

Broadway, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1915.

Winston Churchill

Albert Einstein

German soldiers colourised 1913

Meditating protesting monk sets himself on fire

Ruddy heck, can't get rid of the accidental thumbs down...

 

[Laughing Gravy]

Some good pictures here www.facebook.com/pages/Colorizedhistory/430760113645337


If you click on photo's, there are loads to see

 

[Phat Baz 68]

Maybe a silly question but humour me !
How do the colourer ins know the right colours to use for everything ?

 

[Everest]

Maybe a silly question but humour me !
How do the colourer ins know the right colours to use for everything ?

Numbers?

 

[W.C.]

Love that Old Bailey one

 

[algie]

There's a good one of Mary Jane Kelly floating about who was horrifically murdered by the Ripper. A crime scene from 1888

 

[dannyboy]

Goebbels one is petrifying

 

[gripper stebson]

Audrey Hepburn was hot!

 

[Biscuit]

Colourising is a hobby of mine, might dig a few up and post them,

 

[BigGully]

Really rather interesting looking through them. A lot of history captured and the photograph of the young boy with his toy will stay with me for a long time.

Since my son was born I can't bare to see children upset or in pain and it just shows how easy the majority of our lives have been and are yet we complain a lot!

Interesting, I honestly dont see the pain or upset in the young boy that you do.

 

[Willow]

Garswood_Latic has posted some good football ones on flickr...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/63589068@N04/

 

[Stinkers Bridge]

I've just colourised a close-up old b/w picture of some piano keys.

To be perfectly honest, I'm a little disappointed with the result.

 

[drew]

The technology certainly helps as previous attempts have looked very poor.