Colour Photography

1. Can you find Image evidence of the technique?

2. When was it first discovered and by whom?
The first colour photograph was produced by a Scottish physicist that used a three colour method in 1861.

3. What is special about the technique?

This method is famous because you had to take a normal black and white photo then you has to pass the black and white through three colour filters that would make the colour photo in three primary colours.

4. How does this technique work? Can you find or describe the processes needed to make it work? Maybe illustrate how it is made.

You take your black and white picture and pass it through three colour filters that will make the colour image that will have three primary colours in it.

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5. Can you comment how important this technique has been for the history of photography? For example was it popular and is it still used today?
This technique was the first to produce a colour picture but because the process is so time consuming that it could not be put into practical use and is not used in today’s colour picture production.