[custom_adv] One of the greatest components of reddit are the thriving subreddits, niche communities of people who share a passion for a specific topic. One of the Sifter’s personal favourites is r/ColorizedHistory (featured previously). [custom_adv] The principal contributors are a mix of professional and amateur colorizers and restorers that bring historic photos to life through color. [custom_adv] All of them are highly skilled digital artists that use a combination of historical reference material and a natural eye for colour. [custom_adv] When we see old photos in black and white, we sometimes forget that life back then was experienced in the same vibrant colours that surround us today. This gallery of talented artists helps us remember just that. [custom_adv] Photography is the ultimate tool for capturing our surroundings with a realistic approach. Due to the very nature of capturing evidence, it has impacted the way we remember things from our past. [custom_adv] From global-scale events to domestic and familiar occurrences, photography has shaped the way we remember things. [custom_adv] The major contributors are a mix of professional and amateur colorizers that bring historic photos to life through color. All of them are highly skilled digital artists that use a combination of historical reference material and a natural eye for colour. [custom_adv] It’s often difficult to realize how close to us in the course of history are such events as the wedding day of our grandparents or WWII. Gladly, the digital possibilities now let us glimpse, even a little speculatively, at our past which was, believe it or not, in colour. [custom_adv] The colourizing process is no easy business and it highly depends on the colourizer’s involvement into this activity. A great deal of colours can be recognized from the subtleties of greyish hues in black and white colours. [custom_adv] Another way is to research the past fashions, the colouring of the places that still exist today and quite a lot of common sense that, for instance, let us know that the hair colour of a person in a historical black and white photo is most probably a natural one. [custom_adv] However, one must bear in mind that an equally important part of the colourizing process takes the good old fashioned guesswork. [custom_adv] Even having all of the accessible information on the subject in theory, you can never be 100% percent sure of the true colours and hues that could have been captured on any given photograph. [custom_adv] Nevertheless, a coloured historical photograph, which you otherwise only would have seen in black and white, can make like you could have been part of a world that you’ve never even seen. [custom_adv] From global-scale events to domestic and familiar occurrences, photography has shaped the way we remember things.
