How did the color photos of the late Qing Dynasty come from? Is this a stupid way for photographers to win the market?

Are there any color photos in the late Qing Dynasty? Bian Xiao, are you kidding? ? Every time the old color photos of the late Qing Dynasty are released, there are always netizens who leave messages expressing doubts.

In fact, the questioning of netizens is justified. There was no color film and related photography in the late Qing Dynasty, but photo studios and photographers at that time did take many color photos for customers.

Young woman, Raymond? The works of Steffield.

What's the mystery? Let's talk about this today. First of all, explain a key word: manual coloring.

After photography was invented, people discovered it? Copy? People, natural scenery and social and cultural characteristics. However, due to technical limitations, it was? Copy? The object of painting presents monotonous black and white, losing the gorgeous color of the real world, and even not comparable to the color level of painting.

Raymond. The works of Steffield.

Therefore, all photo studios, photographers and customers all over the world want to get color images, which will make the photos more realistic and artistic.

As early as the1840s, when photography was just popularized, the manual coloring process of photos began to be widely used by European photographers.

Photographers draw lessons from the painter's method and hand-draw color portrait photos (or the painter himself). They mixed gum Arabic with pigment powder, dipped in pigment with a brush made of fine camel hair, and painted it on silver prints. After drying, the silver version of the photo, which used to be a single cold gray metallic tone, turned into color. ?

After the 1860 s, the coloring process developed further, and there were photos that were enhanced by carbon process and dichromate process. The operation process of these two methods is extremely complicated, but the color stability is stronger and the picture presented is more beautiful.

According to historical scholars' research, color photos appeared in the late Qing Dynasty in1870s, later than European society. William, an Englishman who runs a photo studio in Shanghai? William Sood may be? Who was the first hand-painted photographer in China? . He colored the original photos of protein by hand, which reflected the trend of color photography at that time.