coloured military photos 1941-45..

naffy_ua - Раскраски военных фот 1941-1945гг

 

Ray;
Some excellent work here by Za Radinu. I wonder what technology was used? The degree of realism is better than anything you see on the History Channel.
JeffinMNUSA

 

he does have some very nice pics, jeff...

 

Ray;
I am wondering if he didn't hand color these great old photos. If it was done digitally I would sure like to know how-I have been fiddling with reco for years now; http://news.webshots.com/album/574400811reBNzp?start=348
JeffinMNUSA

 

pm him jeff, he is a member here..

 

I'm interested too. I like to re-colour the old photos too, but have turned to hand-recolouring through photoshop. I haven't been able to find a decent automatic way to do it.

 

those are really good photos!!!

 

I dug back a bit further and found this.

KTK

Flickr: Za Rodinu's Photostream

 

I use colored gradiant maps and burn them in. QUick-dirty an done. But the results seldom produce recolored B&W photos of this quality and some get to looking cartoonish. http://news.webshots.com/album/574400811reBNzp?start=348 Maybe there is some new advances out there? Or maybe Za uses paint and brushes which would have to be a long process. Whatever-I applaud his efforts.
JeffinMNUSA

 

he explains how he does it in one post on Flickr

superb work indeed !

 

The blonde russian sniper chick is hot

 

what!? a vest?

 

THANK YOU ZA RADINU!
I am too lazy to hand paint every single item on an old B&W so how is this for a compromise-I color burn the whole thing in my usual fashion and then hand paint certain vital spots (IE human faces, explosions, pieces of scenery, and etc- and you have to blend the hand paints into the burn by at least 20%). This technique will never reach the level of realism Za's painstaking approach does -besides that I could never come close to approximating this guy's faultless sense of colorization- but I think it might get somewhere in the ballpark. The blurrier B&Ws you finish with art screens blended in to varying degrees.
The whole purpose as I see it is to present the scene as the participants saw it; and I think I am ready to go and tackle my father in laws South Pacific B&W's. This might take a while.
mm1 pictures from history photos on webshots
For the homeland!
JeffinMNUSA
PS. Who-yeah some Soviet assault engineers wore armour. The Frontovik in the vest's mission was to spray the interior with the Pepishaw from the RT, before the flamethrower attacked from the LFT-a hazardous first move.
PSS. Inching along on this project Za Radinu!