Looks eerily like 80s woodland camo
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I often think, how do they know what the colors.That picture is quite well known (and even in the M1903 bible by Brophy), it just got colorized. Who knows what the original camoflage colors really were. Nice to see a suggestion on how it may had looked like. Original:
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I just watched a video on the sinking of the Szent Istvan, that real famous video of the BB that Italy sent torpedo boats after and it got filmed rolling over. It was in color, as well as black and white. How did they figure out these shades of gray are that color?
In a photo like this, well we know his shirt and pants are this shade of green, the tags are silver, can they make "best guesses" based on known shades of colors?
How do we know this guy was not blonde, or a red head?
With all of the "do-it-yourself" camoed helmets that were painted by individual soldiers in the trenches during the Great War, along with everything else from camoed tanks to camoed machine-guns, this M1903 Springfield is most likely legit.
Central Powers Helmets
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Central Powers Helmets
There was in fact color photography during WW1. The Germans and French did produce some color photos at the time. The process was in the developmental stages for the most part. This is not to be confused with hand colorized images of the period that were very popular. Color photos much rarer than B&W images of course.
100-Year-Old Color Photos Show a Rare Polychromatic Glimpse of World War I
War photographers documented life on the frontlines, and these photos were taken with actual color film 100 years ago.
Hans Hildenbrand: The German front in rare color photos, 1914-1918 - Rare Historical Photos
These incredible color photographs of the German battlefront during the First World War, 1914-1918, were taken by Hans Hildenbrand.
rarehistoricalphotos.com
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