Incredible WW2 Photographs

very good indeed. But 'the other forum' are way behind... we saw these ages ago ;)
 
Fantastic. There's something entrancing about a great quality colour photo from a period on time so used to being seen in black and white.
 
Great pictures but so obviously fake.

I mean how on earth can anyone manage to get such great photos without autofocus, image-stabilisation, Canon L glass, high ISO and PP? :naughty:

Seriously though sad to think that probably most of the people in the pictures have passed apart maybe from the young child in the last one?

Is it me or does it seem strange looking at WWII photos in colour?

-=Glyn=-
 
I do, vaguely, remember relatives from the US visiting us in Scotland when I was a kid. It must have been in the early 1960s and my parents and just about everyone they knew were amazed that they could take colour photographs.

We do tend to think of colour photography as a fairly modern technology, but it was actually developed in the mid C19th and had become a practical proposition by the early C20th. Kodachrome - which was used for these images - was available shortly before WW2 and I think there were some competing systems around.
 
GlynHugh said:
Is it me or does it seem strange looking at WWII photos in colour?

-=Glyn=-
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Indeed it does. That's what I was eluding to in my post further up. I have spent some time looking at these.
 
leftcurl said:
very good indeed. But 'the other forum' are way behind... we saw these ages ago ;)
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Oh well lol! At least more people have seem them now. I thought I would share as it's incredible to think that these were real people, doing real jobs in WW2.

It's mind blowing.

This is one of the reasons I love photography. :love:
 
Excellent images and a real bit of history.
 
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