<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky">Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky</a> (1863-1944) was a Russian chemist who was an early innovator in color photography. He studied under <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Miethe">Adolf Miethe</a> (co-inventor of the camera flash) to learn the early arts of color photography. In 1908, he gained fame for making Russia's <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:L.N.Tolstoy_Prokudin-Gorsky.jpg">first color photographic portrait</a>, of <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy">Leo Tolstoy</a>. This and other photos gained the attention of <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia">Tsar Nicholas II</a>, who gave Prokudin-Gorsky funding to spend several years documenting the Russian Empire, using a special darkroom installed inside a railroad car.Prokudin-Gorsky's methodology, based on Miethe's, involved exposing three sheets of glass covered in a light-sensitive emulsion, each recording a red, green, or blue "channel" of light. Most of his negatives were seized by Soviet officials after the revolution or otherwise lost. After Prokudin-Gorsky's death in Paris in 1944, just over 1,900 fragile negatives remained; the U.S. <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://www.loc.gov/">Library of Congress</a> purchased them from his heirs in 1948 for about $5,000.Assembling the negatives into prints was a <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://archive.org/details/photographsforts00prok">delicate, complex, and time-consuming</a> process — until digital technology made it much faster. In 2001, the Library of Congress put on an exhibit titled <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/">The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated</a>, bringing many of his photos to light for the first time. They were something of a sensation, offering an <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs194-26/fa17/upload/files/proj1/cs194-26-abq/">eerily contemporary-seeming</a> view into life on the Russian steppe a century earlier, a time we're used to seeing only in black and white.This embedding is based on 30 images of Prokudin-Gorsky, focusing on his work with people as opposed to his many landscapes. I confess that I was hoping this would capture some of the <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/academic/class/15463-s10/www/proj1/www/jcdavis/">glorious color misalignments</a> that populate his color prints, giving them a <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://www.michaelhasey.com/prokudin-gorskii-colorization-algorithm">spooky, ethereal quality</a>. (Part of that is due to the fact the red, green, or blue images would be taken <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/in-search-of-true-color/">seconds or even minutes apart</a>.)Alas, Stable Diffusion was too smart for that. So instead, it captures the <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://carusel.tours/prokudin-gorsky">rural Russia</a> that Prokudin-Gorsky recorded, full of peasants, farm workers, and other people from the <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/andrew/scs/cs/15-463/f07/proj1/www/wwedler/">many minority cultures</a> he captured, including Dagestani, Bukharan, Jewish, Armenian, Bashkir, Kyrgyz, Karelian, and more. It was cooked for a total of 300 steps on base SD 1.5: 16 vectors per token, a 0.004 learning rate, a batch size of 6, and 5 gradient steps.Your ratings, especially of the five-star variety, are very much appreciated.

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