Background
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) was a photographer ahead of his time. He saw color photography as the wave of the future and came up with a simple idea to produce color photos: record three exposures of every scene onto a glass plate using a red, a green, and a blue filter and then project the monochrome pictures with correctly coloured light to reproduce the color image; color printing of photos was very difficult at the time. Due to the fame he got from his color photos, including the only color portrait of Leo Tolstoy (a famous Russian author), he won the Tzar's permission and funding to travel across the Russian Empire and document it in 'color' photographs. His RGB glass plate negatives were purchased in 1948 by the Library of Congress. They are now digitized and available on-line.
Photo Processing
Split and Merge
Because the images are, from top to bottom, in BGR order, I split each image into 3 parts and merge to get the colorized image.
Aligning
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