Nowadays, photographers use black and white photography to convey emotion by playing with tones, contrasts, and shadows, but it wasn t always an option to choose. Color photography brings photographs to life and reveals every little vivid detail that creates a compelling image. Photographers from the past could only convey the world they were living in in black and grey. Have you ever wondered what these photographers saw that very moment? I have.
Digital artists spend hours trying to recreate old black and white photographs in realistic colors with impressive results just check the incredible work of colorists Marina Amaral, Andrea Erali, or Olga Shirinina previously featured on Bored Panda. It s intricate and time-consuming work that requires not only great editing skills, but a lot of knowledge and research of historical context to color the image as accurately as possible.
I have found this image colorization API called DeepAI that allows you to colorize black and white photos and videos in a few seconds. I tested it with these B&W images of celebrities from the golden age of Hollywood.
GALAXIES: INSIDE THE UNIVERSE S STAR CITIES
by David J. Eicher (Wildfire £25)
Space, the final frontier. As a big fan of space, I always assumed it was rather black up there, with nothing very much to see. But these amazing photos show the universe as a riot of colour and exceptional beauty. The sheer numbers take the breath away: trillions of stars, billions of galaxies, the distances vast and unbreachable.
Eicher, who is editor-in-chief of Astronomy magazine, writes wonderfully well about all this, supplying a wealth of information. I had no idea, for instance, that the black hole at the centre of our galaxy is 4.3 million times the size of our Sun. Probably worth steering clear of, then.