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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/5.6

Shutter speed

1/160s

ISO

100

Metering mode

Multi-segment

Exposure program

Aperture-priority AE

Exposure compensation

Flash

Off, Did not fire

Taken at

2016:07:16 16:08:56

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

5.6

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

2016:07:16 16:08:56

FileSource

Digital Camera

ModifyDate

2020:11:21 11:14:42

OffsetTime

+01:00

Saturation

Normal

Compression

JPEG (old-style)

ExifVersion

0231

FocalLength

55.0 mm

LightSource

Unknown

XResolution

240

YResolution

240

ExposureMode

Auto

ExposureTime

1/160

MeteringMode

Multi-segment

WhiteBalance

Auto

ApertureValue

5.6

CustomRendered

Normal

ResolutionUnit

inches

ThumbnailImage

(Binary data 21448 bytes, use -b option to extract)

BrightnessValue

8.36484375

ExposureProgram

Aperture-priority AE

SensitivityType

Recommended Exposure Index

ThumbnailLength

21448

ThumbnailOffset

942

DateTimeOriginal

2016:07:16 16:08:56

DigitalZoomRatio

MaxApertureValue

1.8

SceneCaptureType

Standard

ShutterSpeedValue

1/160

ExposureCompensation

FocalPlaneXResolution

1675.257385

FocalPlaneYResolution

1675.257385

FocalLengthIn35mmFormat

55 mm

FocalPlaneResolutionUnit

RecommendedExposureIndex

100

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IPTC

DateCreated

2016:07:16

TimeCreated

16:08:56

CodedCharacterSet

UTF8

DigitalCreationDate

2016:07:16

DigitalCreationTime

16:08:56

ApplicationRecordVersion

Photoshop

IPTCDigest

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XResolution

240

YResolution

240

DisplayedUnitsX

inches

DisplayedUnitsY

inches

PhotoshopThumbnail

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Look

Name	Adobe Color
Group	Profiles
Cluster
Amount	1.0

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Basic

Profile	Adobe Standard
White Balance	As Shot
Temperature	5650
Tint		+4

Tone
Exposure		+0.20
Contrast		+16
Highlights		-52
Shadows		+38
Whites		+50
Blacks		-5

Presence
Texture		0
Clarity		+17
Dehaze		0
Vibrance		0
Saturation		+1

Tone Curve

Tone Curve:

Region
Highlights		0
Lights		0
Darks		0
Shadows		0

Color Mixer / HSL

Hue
Red		-8
Orange		-71
Yellow		-49
Green		+52
Aqua		+27
Blue		-7
Purple		0
Magenta		0

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The edit creates a bright, crisp, largely desaturated cityscape with controlled highlights, open building detail, and subdued cool-green surroundings. Strong HSL remapping removes most yellow and reduces nearly every other color, leaving muted red roofs and dark cyan-green foliage as the main accents. Perspective correction and a substantial crop reinforce the orderly architectural composition.

Overall look

The photograph has a clean, cool-leaning urban-documentary appearance rather than a vivid landscape treatment. Adobe Color supplies the base rendering, while moderate contrast and clarity give the dense architecture definition. There is no added color grading, grain, vignette, or dehaze, so the finish remains straightforward and polished.

Light and tone

A small exposure lift (+0.20) brightens the frame. Highlights are pulled down strongly (-52) to preserve detail across pale roofs and the hazy sky, while shadows are raised (+38) to reveal streets, trees, and darker façades. Whites are then pushed substantially (+50), restoring a bright, high-key quality without simply letting the broad highlight regions wash out. Slightly lowered blacks, added contrast, and a gentle custom curve give the image firmer dark anchors and brighter upper midtones. Together, these adjustments compress extreme tonal differences while keeping the city visually crisp rather than flat.

Color

White balance remains As Shot at 5650 K with a slight magenta tint, but the distinctive palette comes mainly from HSL controls. Yellow saturation is removed completely, and green, red, orange, aqua, blue, purple, and magenta are all reduced to varying degrees. This suppresses colorful distractions and gives concrete, rooftops, and atmospheric distance a restrained near-neutral appearance. Large hue shifts move orange and yellow toward red/orange, while green is pushed toward aqua and aqua toward blue. Green, aqua, blue, and yellow luminance are raised, making foliage and distant atmospheric colors lighter and less heavy; red is darkened slightly. Inference: this combination helps the remaining muted red roofs stand apart from cooler cyan-green vegetation even though overall saturation is low.

Presence and detail

Clarity at +17 adds moderate local contrast around windows, rooflines, and building edges. Texture and dehaze are untouched, avoiding an overly gritty surface or an artificially darkened skyline. Standard sharpening is applied at Amount 40 with a 1.0 radius and Detail 25, with no masking, so edge enhancement is distributed broadly across the densely detailed frame. Color noise reduction is set to 25, while luminance noise reduction is absent. The ISO 100 capture materially supports this choice because little luminance-noise cleanup was likely required.

Geometry and composition

The image is cropped substantially from the original frame, concentrating attention on the central city blocks and stadium while removing peripheral space. Automated Upright perspective correction and the matching Sony FE 55mm lens profile help keep architectural lines orderly and correct lens distortion and vignetting. Inference: these corrections contribute to the map-like, structured presentation of the city, although some natural convergence remains visually plausible at this elevated viewpoint.

Effects

No post-crop vignette or grain is applied. This keeps brightness even from center to edges and preserves the clean digital finish appropriate to the architectural subject.

What mattered most

Highlight recovery and lifted shadows retain detail across a bright, high-contrast urban scene.
Raised whites, modest contrast, and clarity keep the muted image luminous and sharply structured.
Aggressive HSL desaturation—especially complete removal of yellow—creates the restrained palette.
Hue and luminance shifts separate cool vegetation from the remaining muted red architectural accents.
Crop, Upright correction, and the lens profile strengthen the precise architectural composition.

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