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Camera settings (EXIF data)

Camera Sony Sony a7 II

Full frame (35.8 x 23.9 mm)

Lens Sony Sonnar T* FE 55mm f/1.8 ZA

min. focus distance: 1.64' / 50 cm

stabilization: no

weight: 281 g

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Focal length

55.0 mm

Aperture

ƒ/5.0

Shutter speed

1/320s

ISO

100

Metering mode

Multi-segment

Exposure program

Aperture-priority AE

Exposure compensation

-1

Flash

Off, Did not fire

Taken at

2016:05:09 20:07:43

Software

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 10.0 (Macintosh)

no copyright note in EXIF

GPS Location

—

GPS Altitude

—

GPS Date & time

—

Raw EXIF data

ISO

100

Make

SONY

Flash

Off, Did not fire

Model

ILCE-7M2

FNumber

5.0

Contrast

Normal

LensInfo

55mm f/1.8

Software

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 10.0 (Macintosh)

LensModel

FE 55mm F1.8 ZA

SceneType

Directly photographed

Sharpness

Normal

ColorSpace

sRGB

CreateDate

2016:05:09 20:07:43

FileSource

Digital Camera

ModifyDate

2020:11:21 10:52:45

OffsetTime

+01:00

Saturation

Normal

Compression

JPEG (old-style)

ExifVersion

0231

FocalLength

55.0 mm

LightSource

Unknown

XResolution

240

YResolution

240

ExposureMode

Auto

ExposureTime

1/320

MeteringMode

Multi-segment

WhiteBalance

Auto

ApertureValue

5.0

CustomRendered

Normal

ResolutionUnit

inches

ThumbnailImage

(Binary data 14910 bytes, use -b option to extract)

BrightnessValue

6.6578125

ExposureProgram

Aperture-priority AE

SensitivityType

Recommended Exposure Index

ThumbnailLength

14910

ThumbnailOffset

942

DateTimeOriginal

2016:05:09 20:07:43

DigitalZoomRatio

MaxApertureValue

1.8

SceneCaptureType

Standard

ShutterSpeedValue

1/320

ExposureCompensation

-1

FocalPlaneXResolution

1675.257385

FocalPlaneYResolution

1675.257385

FocalLengthIn35mmFormat

55 mm

FocalPlaneResolutionUnit

RecommendedExposureIndex

100

Raw XMP data

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IPTC

DateCreated

2016:05:09

TimeCreated

20:07:43

CodedCharacterSet

UTF8

DigitalCreationDate

2016:05:09

DigitalCreationTime

20:07:43

ApplicationRecordVersion

Photoshop

IPTCDigest

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XResolution

240

YResolution

240

DisplayedUnitsX

inches

DisplayedUnitsY

inches

PhotoshopThumbnail

(Binary data 14910 bytes, use -b option to extract)

Adobe Lightroom edits

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Look

Name	Adobe Color
Group	Profiles
Cluster
Amount	1.0

Note on Looks

Looks are not included in the default downloadable preset. The reason is that they often require extra files installed on your system (e.g. many film emulation packs).

Without these files in place, the presets downloaded from PixelPeeper couldn't be imported. That's why PixelPeeper presets focus on universal settings. If you want to replicate the Look part, you can copy it manually, but in many cases, it won't have an effect without the looks installed on your computer first.

The "Full XMP Settings" version of the downloadable preset will include the look and other (complete) adjustments. If you have the required looks installed, you should be able to import this XMP file to Lightroom.

Basic

Profile	Adobe Standard
White Balance	As Shot
Temperature	5250
Tint		+5

Tone
Exposure		+0.63
Contrast		+5
Highlights		-55
Shadows		+37
Whites		+6
Blacks		0

Presence
Texture		0
Clarity		0
Dehaze		0
Vibrance		0
Saturation		0

Tone Curve

Tone Curve:

Region
Highlights		0
Lights		0
Darks		0
Shadows		0

Color Mixer / HSL

Hue
Red		+21
Orange		-3
Yellow		-36
Green		+29
Aqua		0
Blue		-15
Purple		0
Magenta		0

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The edit creates a subdued, film-like sunset: warm light remains prominent while foliage, grass, and sky colors are heavily muted. The scene is brightened overall, but strong highlight recovery and a custom tone curve preserve the sunset and keep the foreground figures largely silhouetted. Lifted black output and softened whites give the contrast a gentle, slightly matte finish.

Overall look

The photograph is shaped around the warm sun and dark park silhouettes rather than vivid color or crisp digital contrast. Adobe Standard provides the base rendering, while the custom tone curve and selective HSL desaturation create most of the restrained, cinematic character. No clarity, texture, dehaze, grain, or added vignette was used, so the atmosphere comes primarily from tone and color adjustments.

Light and tone

Exposure was raised by 0.63 EV to brighten the frame, while Highlights at -55 hold detail and color around the sun and bright sky. Shadows at +37 recover some information in the grass, bicycles, and trees without eliminating their silhouette quality. A small contrast increase and slightly raised whites keep the sunlight luminous. The custom curve lifts the black endpoint, pulls down the lower darks, and lowers the white endpoint; together these produce deep but softly faded shadows and restrained highlights. The capture used -1 EV exposure compensation, which is consistent with protecting a high-contrast sunset; the Lightroom adjustments then rebalance the darker portions while retaining that highlight protection.

Color palette

White balance remains As Shot at 5250 K with a slight magenta tint, supporting the naturally warm sunset without imposing a strong global color cast. The key stylistic move is selective desaturation: yellow, green, aqua, and blue are reduced by roughly 40–50 points, with red, purple, and magenta also softened. Orange is almost untouched, allowing the sun and warm horizon to stand out against the muted environment. Large hue shifts in yellow and green further move foliage away from bright natural greens and yellows, producing a more subdued olive-toned landscape. Green luminance is lowered, making the vegetation feel denser, while brighter orange and aqua luminance help the glow and pale sky remain legible.

Color curves

The individual RGB curves introduce subtle color separation rather than obvious split toning. The curve relationships suggest slightly warmer dark tones, cooler or more neutral midtones, and gently yellow-green highlights. This is a visual inference from the channel curves, and it complements the warm sun without coloring the entire image uniformly. Dedicated color grading and split toning are both unused.

Detail and optical correction

Moderate sharpening was applied with a 1.0 radius and no masking, giving general edge definition across the frame rather than targeting only strong contours. Color noise reduction is set to 25, but luminance noise reduction is absent; that is appropriate to the clean ISO 100 capture. The Adobe profile for the Sony FE 55mm F1.8 ZA is enabled to correct the lens's native distortion and vignetting.

Crop and composition

The crop trims about 7% from both the left and bottom edges while leaving the top and right intact. As an inference, this tightens the park scene and shifts attention toward the sun, central tree trunks, bicycles, and seated figures without changing the camera angle or applying perspective correction.

What mattered most

Highlight recovery and shadow lifting balance the sunset while preserving silhouettes.
A lifted-black, lowered-white tone curve creates the soft matte contrast.
Heavy desaturation of greens, yellows, aquas, and blues isolates the nearly untouched orange sunset glow.
The natural atmosphere is not produced by clarity, dehaze, grain, or vignette effects; those controls remain neutral.

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