An amazing original 1909 colour photograph of hot air balloons at the inaugural Paris Air Show.

[natasha_jay@tech.lgbt]

An amazing original 1909 colour photograph of hot air balloons at the inaugural Paris Air Show. It was taken by Léon Gimpel, using the 'Autochrome Lumière' process, the first commercial process for colour photography.

#Photo #Photography #Photographer

[felipe@social.treehouse.systems]

@Natasha_Jay I need someone to identify the planes at the bottom!!!!

[adam_y@mas.to]

@Natasha_Jay I love the ghosts of the audience, rendered like whips as they move through the long and multiple exposures.

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@Natasha_Jay Sorry to be pedantic, but I highly suspect two of these are not a hot air balloons at all.

[eibart@zirk.us]

@Natasha_Jay
there was no color photography in 1909 yet, it startet only in the 1930ies

[natasha_jay@tech.lgbt]

@eibart
Well...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autochrome_Lumi%C3%A8re

[capnthommo@c.im]

@Natasha_Jay why is there a sailing boat in the back right of the pic

[eibart@zirk.us]

@Natasha_Jay this is funny, because i got the information from german wiki.
Infact it says »early« in the english one, but without wiki, it looks just fake, because a foto of reality is never so tone in tone as this one

[kielkontrovers@norden.social]

@Natasha_Jay and with that color picture it might be easier to colorize other images of the same show or balloons....