Doubt the sky looked blue given all the coal that was burned, for not just heat but cooking. It would have looked overcast at best. Cities then had a gloom about them as a result, it wasn’t just Dickens taking creative license.
Breezy that day, the leaves on the trees are blurred.
#67 I cannot read any of the text. It is using that Windows white text with drop shadow instead of black text.
Seems to me this picture was taken on a Sunday morning, so there is little street or pedestrian traffic, as stores would be closed.
Traffic in the street would have shown up as a blur, as the exposure said to be seven minutes.
Did you colorize this?
That’s extraordinary.
Re: Shadows
Daguerre’s camera creates a mirror image.
The guy getting his boots cleaned is actually on the right side of the photo in the real world, and, presumably the shadows would be pointing to the right also.