The colors are way too uniform. All the blue scarves are exactly the same blue, all the skin tones are exactly the same, all the individual buildings have a color that’s exactly uniform from corner to corner, etc.
And things like the ice are completely missing any color at all (except for maybe an overall blueish tint they added to the dark areas) but in real life everything has color. Objects that you might think are just monochrome black-gray-white actually have a lot of different colors in them. So when a section of a picture looks like a black n white photo instead of a color photo it immediately pops out to me.
Plus, the colors of all the different objects disagree on the type of light hitting them. Like for the black ice to have a significant blueish tint means the lighting of that day wouldn’t create a pinkish skin tone.
And there’s no atmospheric effects in the distance of colors. Like the column closest to the camera is the same color as the most distant column, but in reality colors fade as they go further into the distance even at the scale in this photo.
Reverse image search shows some different attempts at colorization, and also black-and-white originals that have much less contrast.
Gotta say, this colorization fooled me at first, because it’s exactly how old buildings in SPb look now.
P.S. The “color by Klimbim” signature in the corner should’ve probably been the biggest hint.
To me it’s obviously screaming colorized.
The colors are way too uniform. All the blue scarves are exactly the same blue, all the skin tones are exactly the same, all the individual buildings have a color that’s exactly uniform from corner to corner, etc.
And things like the ice are completely missing any color at all (except for maybe an overall blueish tint they added to the dark areas) but in real life everything has color. Objects that you might think are just monochrome black-gray-white actually have a lot of different colors in them. So when a section of a picture looks like a black n white photo instead of a color photo it immediately pops out to me.
Plus, the colors of all the different objects disagree on the type of light hitting them. Like for the black ice to have a significant blueish tint means the lighting of that day wouldn’t create a pinkish skin tone.
And there’s no atmospheric effects in the distance of colors. Like the column closest to the camera is the same color as the most distant column, but in reality colors fade as they go further into the distance even at the scale in this photo.
This concludes my procrastination ted talk.
I don’t quite see the ‘uniform color’ on the building, the columns, or the wall in the back.
lmao, I completely missed that