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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 35mm f/2.8 ZA

min. focus distance: 13.78" / 35 cm

stabilization: no

weight: 120 g

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Focal length

35.0 mm

Aperture

ƒ/5.6

Shutter speed

1/160s

ISO

100

Metering mode

Multi-segment

Exposure program

Aperture-priority AE

Exposure compensation

-0.3

Flash

Off, Did not fire

Taken at

2016:09:08 14:20:45

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

Low

LensInfo

35mm f/2.8

Software

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 10.0 (Macintosh)

LensModel

FE 35mm F2.8 ZA

SceneType

Directly photographed

Sharpness

Normal

ColorSpace

sRGB

CreateDate

2016:09:08 14:20:45

FileSource

Digital Camera

ModifyDate

2020:11:22 09:07:28

OffsetTime

+01:00

Saturation

Normal

Compression

JPEG (old-style)

ExifVersion

0231

FocalLength

35.0 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 14894 bytes, use -b option to extract)

BrightnessValue

6.91171875

ExposureProgram

Aperture-priority AE

SensitivityType

Recommended Exposure Index

ThumbnailLength

14894

ThumbnailOffset

942

DateTimeOriginal

2016:09:08 14:20:45

DigitalZoomRatio

MaxApertureValue

2.8

SceneCaptureType

Standard

ShutterSpeedValue

1/160

ExposureCompensation

-0.3

FocalPlaneXResolution

1675.257385

FocalPlaneYResolution

1675.257385

FocalLengthIn35mmFormat

35 mm

FocalPlaneResolutionUnit

RecommendedExposureIndex

100

Raw XMP data

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IPTC

DateCreated

2016:09:08

TimeCreated

14:20:45

CodedCharacterSet

UTF8

DigitalCreationDate

2016:09:08

DigitalCreationTime

14:20:45

ApplicationRecordVersion

Photoshop

IPTCDigest

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XResolution

240

YResolution

240

DisplayedUnitsX

inches

DisplayedUnitsY

inches

PhotoshopThumbnail

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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.

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Basic

Profile	Adobe Standard
White Balance	Custom
Temperature	6050
Tint		+9

Tone
Exposure		+0.26
Contrast		0
Highlights		-79
Shadows		+28
Whites		-18
Blacks		+26

Presence
Texture		0
Clarity		+6
Dehaze		0
Vibrance		0
Saturation		0

Tone Curve

Tone Curve:

Region
Highlights		0
Lights		0
Darks		0
Shadows		0

Color Mixer / HSL

Hue
Red		+19
Orange		-13
Yellow		-23
Green		0
Aqua		+21
Blue		-12
Purple		-16
Magenta		-16

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The edit creates a restrained, slightly matte architectural look that preserves the bridge and pale sky while keeping the brick buildings rich but not overly colorful. Strong highlight recovery, lifted shadows, and a compressed tone curve control the scene’s wide brightness range. Selective HSL desaturation removes distracting colors while allowing the red-orange masonry to remain the dominant color.

Composition and framing

A substantial crop tightens the view around the street canyon and bridge. Slightly more was removed from the left than the right, helping center the bridge tower and roadway. No perspective or Upright correction was applied, so the natural inward convergence of the buildings remains and reinforces their height. This is a visual inference from the crop and photograph.

Light and tone

Exposure was raised slightly (+0.26), but highlights were reduced very strongly (-79) and whites lowered (-18). This protects detail in the bright sky and the pale metal bridge structure. Shadows (+28) and blacks (+26) were opened to reveal cars, storefront edges, and masonry within the shaded street. The custom tone curve further compresses the range: its raised black endpoint gives the deepest tones a softened, matte floor, while its lowered white endpoint keeps the sky and bridge from becoming harsh. Together, these adjustments produce controlled contrast rather than a dramatic high-contrast rendering.

Color and white balance

The custom white balance of 6050K with +9 tint gives the scene a mild warm-magenta bias, complementing the brick without making the sky strongly warm. Color was shaped mainly through HSL rather than global Saturation or Vibrance, both of which remain at zero. Most secondary colors were heavily subdued—especially purple, yellow, magenta, blue, green, and aqua—while red received only modest desaturation and was brightened. Orange was also moderately desaturated but slightly lifted. This selective treatment keeps the brick façades visually prominent while making the sky, foliage, vehicles, and street details quieter. Hue shifts in red, orange, yellow, aqua, and blue also refine separation between the warm buildings and cool sky.

Detail and atmosphere

Clarity is increased only slightly (+6), adding modest definition to the bridge cables, steelwork, brick edges, and vehicles without producing a crunchy HDR effect. Sharpening is moderate, with a 1.0 radius and low detail emphasis; masking is zero, so sharpening is applied broadly across the frame. Color noise reduction is set to 25, while luminance noise reduction is absent. The ISO 100 capture materially explains why strong luminance smoothing was unnecessary.

Effects and optical treatment

No grain, post-crop vignette, or Dehaze was added, so the subdued atmosphere comes from tonal compression and color editing rather than stylized effects. Lens-profile correction, automatic lateral chromatic-aberration correction, defringing, and manual distortion correction are not enabled. The image therefore retains the lens’s native geometric character and natural edge illumination.

What mattered most

Strong highlight recovery and raised shadows balance the bright sky against the shaded street.
A lifted-black, lowered-white custom curve creates the soft, compressed matte finish.
Selective HSL desaturation suppresses most colors while preserving the red-orange brick as the visual anchor.
The crop strengthens the centered bridge composition without correcting the buildings’ natural perspective convergence.
Minimal clarity and moderate sharpening retain architectural definition without making the image look aggressively processed.

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