D-Day In Color: Stunning Colorized Photographs Of Allied Troops

D-Day In Color: Stunning Colorized Photographs Of Allied Troops Landing Norway Beaches In June, 1944

 

Well, he almost certainly got the colour of the Austin K5 and the Bedford QL wrong...It is one person's impression and I really can't understand how it could be seen as a worthwhile addition to the historic record. Newspapers seem to like this sort of thing though.

 

They usually do.
The "colour" version of the longest day is awful (and wrong!)

 

I'm happy to concede that they're better than I could ever do, but I remain not keen.

It's as if the artist is going for 'old-fashioned coloured photographs' instead of 'accurately rendered hues'. I don't see the point of colourising photographs if the aim is not realism.

Yes, the world of the man-made world of the 40s was somewhat less bright and glossy in terms of decoration, raiment, and artificial products, but skin tones, landscapes and animals would not have been so very different.

 

The 14th photo of the Tiger-look on the ground directly beneath the muzzle brake and see a tin of Nuttal's Mintos they got from one of the Villers Bocage 4th CLY wrecks. He got those colours wrong!

 

To me it's more of a re-creation of what a colour photo of that period would look like.
Believe most war photographers would have used something similar to Kodak Ektachrome stock (as it was faster than Kodachrome) which, to my eye, always had a slightly bluish tone.

 

When I first heard of colorization I was amazed that technology had been invented to accurately assess b/w photos and digitally restore colour. A miracle.

After discovering it is just a fuck-ton of guess work by photoshop peeps who flick on the Google and click about, the whole thing becomes a complete joke - creating a new form of mythstory.

Hence we get Canadian soldiers wearing RAF blue, wooden Bren guns and the like.

Funnily enough a mate is a professional photographer and shot an A list singer recently, in B/W the leather jacket is clearly black - only when you see the colour image do you realise it is a truly vibrant red.

 

Yep, just west of Oslo. Remember??

 

It's what made their aims on Caen so unrealistic.

 

One of my pet hates; keep them in black and white

Lesley

 

Awful from the title down.
Or maybe the "colouriser" is still being deceited by Operation FORTITUDE?

 

Wooden Bren guns! That is brilliant.
Might have worked better than the steel version.

 

DBF, was that after the germans bombed pearl harbour?

 

The British bombed Pearl Harbor, to get America into the war. Winston Churchill ordered it, just like he sunk the French at Mers-el-Kebir!

 

I quote the first sentence on that pitiful page:

"The largest seaborne invasion in history was happened on June 5, 1944."

Apparently the one-day postponement notice did not reach that guy

 

I can tell colours from black & white photos, Adam. I 'see' these wartime images in colour...perhaps it's something to do with having grown up in the black and white era.

 

… meanwhile in Norway on June 5th: "where the hell is everyone!!"