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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/8.0

Shutter speed

1/320s

ISO

100

Metering mode

Multi-segment

Exposure program

Aperture-priority AE

Exposure compensation

Flash

Off, Did not fire

Taken at

2016:09:08 19:04:45

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

8.0

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 19:04:45

FileSource

Digital Camera

ModifyDate

2020:11:22 08:48:35

OffsetTime

+01:00

Saturation

Normal

Compression

JPEG (old-style)

ExifVersion

0231

FocalLength

35.0 mm

LightSource

Unknown

XResolution

240

YResolution

240

ExposureMode

Auto

ExposureTime

1/320

MeteringMode

Multi-segment

WhiteBalance

Auto

ApertureValue

8.0

CustomRendered

Normal

ResolutionUnit

inches

ThumbnailImage

(Binary data 12722 bytes, use -b option to extract)

BrightnessValue

10.29453125

ExposureProgram

Aperture-priority AE

SensitivityType

Recommended Exposure Index

ThumbnailLength

12722

ThumbnailOffset

942

DateTimeOriginal

2016:09:08 19:04:45

DigitalZoomRatio

MaxApertureValue

2.8

SceneCaptureType

Standard

ShutterSpeedValue

1/320

ExposureCompensation

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

19:04:45

CodedCharacterSet

UTF8

DigitalCreationDate

2016:09:08

DigitalCreationTime

19:04:45

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

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).

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Basic

Profile	Adobe Standard
White Balance	Custom
Temperature	5150
Tint		+5

Tone
Exposure		-0.02
Contrast		+7
Highlights		-56
Shadows		+52
Whites		+25
Blacks		-24

Presence
Texture		0
Clarity		0
Dehaze		0
Vibrance		0
Saturation		0

Tone Curve

Tone Curve:

Region
Highlights		0
Lights		0
Darks		0
Shadows		0

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The edit creates a restrained, slightly faded film-like city scene. Strong highlight and shadow recovery preserves detail across the bright sky, reflective water, dark skyline, and foreground wall, while selective color desaturation and added grain keep the image subdued rather than polished or vivid. The crop and perspective correction organize the skyline around the seated figure.

Composition and geometry

A substantial crop removes much of the left side and some of the bottom while retaining the original aspect ratio. This shifts attention toward the seated person and the denser section of skyline behind them. Upright perspective correction helps the high-rise verticals read more cleanly. Inference: this geometric treatment makes the photograph feel more deliberate and architectural while preserving the informal waterfront moment.

Light and tone

Exposure is essentially unchanged, so the look comes mainly from tonal redistribution. Highlights are reduced strongly (-56) and shadows are opened substantially (+52), recovering sky and building detail while making the shaded figure and foreground more readable. Whites are raised (+25) and blacks deepened (-24), with a small contrast increase, giving the recovered image some punch. A custom tone curve then lifts the absolute black point and compresses the brightest endpoint. Together, these adjustments produce detailed midtones and defined dark forms without fully crisp, digital-looking black and white endpoints—the basis of the faded print character.

Color treatment

The custom white balance is fairly neutral daylight with a slight magenta tint, supporting the cool blue-gray atmosphere without introducing a strong cast. Most individual color families are selectively desaturated: blue is reduced by 30, orange by 37, magenta by 31, purple by 47, with smaller reductions to aqua, green, and yellow. This mutes the water, sky, buildings, vegetation, clothing, and skin-associated orange tones while leaving red saturation unchanged. Red hue is shifted toward orange, helping any remaining warm accents feel less sharply red. The RGB curves add subtle channel shaping; their upper portions favor blue and green slightly, reinforcing the cool, understated highlights. No color grading or split toning was added.

Detail and texture

Sharpening is moderate, enough to define architecture and the water’s surface without an aggressive microcontrast effect. Clarity, Texture, and Dehaze remain at zero, so the scene avoids exaggerated edge contrast or atmospheric crispness. The ISO 100 capture did not require luminance noise reduction; none was applied. Standard color noise reduction is present to suppress small chroma artifacts.

Film-like effects

Grain is the strongest finishing effect: Amount 40 with a moderate Size of 25 adds visible texture across the sky, water, and flat building surfaces. Because no post-crop vignette is used, attention is guided by composition, tonal contrast, and the isolated figure rather than artificial edge darkening. Inference: the grain, muted palette, and softened tonal endpoints are intended to evoke a scanned color photograph or understated documentary print.

What mattered most

Strong highlight recovery and shadow opening preserve detail across a naturally high-contrast waterfront scene.
Raised whites and lowered blacks restore structure, while the custom curve softens the extreme endpoints for a faded-print quality.
Selective HSL desaturation creates the cool, muted urban palette without converting the image to monochrome.
Moderate sharpening plus substantial grain provides definition with an analog documentary texture.
Cropping and Upright correction strengthen the relationship between the seated figure and the skyline.