I’ve noticed in videos and photos before the 1990s, everything seems brighter, more vivid, and more ethereal.
Was there some kind of metaphysical change at some point, or does this merely reflect camera technology?
Especially during the dust storms of the 1930’s.
Jerry Garcia. August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995. This also accounts for the lack of technicolor extacy during the dust bowl era.
What you are seeing are the differences between Kodachrome and other film processes and digital photography.
You should have been there for how the atmosphere looked in 1999. Reference the Matrix, pretty good representation of the times.
You tell him, Paul Simon.
In all seriousness, it is likely that the first 500 milion years, give or take, Earth had a Venus-type cloud cover because of the outgassing of the more-or-less molten surface (which was cooling into rocks during this period.
And none of my pictures turned out.
Well, parts of Los Angeles at least, were total smog bowls around the 1960’s. I think there’s been a general improving trend since then, with environmental regulation and pollution control. I’m worried now that it’s improved about as good as it can get, until our cars and factories go all-solar and the Internet goes all-hamster.
The world didn’t turn color until some time in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a time, too. 
I don’t think it happened for the whole world at once. I’ve seen color photos of my grandparents town in the 40s but my grandparents farm was still colorless in the early 50s. I assume they got it later because they were outside the city limits.
It was the RCA, everyone’s heard of them, right? That’s the Rural Colorization Authority. They didn’t really get going until the late 50’s in many parts of the country.
Or Velvia.
Als, it used to be common to use a polarizing filter to turn the sky really deep blue, but photographers these days seem to prefer a more realistic look.
This is what the atmosphere looked like back in the '60s. And that was before Photoshop.
But it was after LSD…
Only when your peter maxed out.
It first appeared in San Francisco and London, and gradually spread out to the rest of the world.
I misread quote #3 as responding to quote #2 rather than #1 (as it actually does) and was: :eek: