Remembrance of times past.

In the Mission district of San Francisco. G1, 14mm, 1/500, f/7.1, ISO 100

You can read more about the great documentary photographer Eugène Atget here, though in fairness I should add that describing Atget as a ‘documentary photographer’ is about as accurate as saying that Cartier-Bresson was a snapshotter.

Detail in the overcast sky was recovered using the technique described here. The obligatory corner vignetting, which takes the G1’s wonderful kit lens and makes it resemble the Coke bottle your great-grandfather and Atget shared, was conferred using Lightroom’s Post-Crop Vignette function. Finally, a touch of the graduated filer with underexposure was used to fade the top part of the picture. Atget probably had it easier!