photos from the LOC

MichaelH · Post by **MichaelH** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:47 pm

Library of Congress

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/

There are some incredibly compelling photos in that stream.

Kaveh · Post by **Kaveh** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:10 am

I love old color photos. They have a quality different to any digital technique.

Have you seen these fantastic 100 year old color photos, taken through r/g/b filters in quick succession:

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

We can now take the three shots and compose them into color digitally.

MichaelH · Post by **MichaelH** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:22 am

Yes, those are fantastic.