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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/2.8

Shutter speed

1/200s

ISO

100

Metering mode

Multi-segment

Exposure program

Manual

Exposure compensation

Flash

Off, Did not fire

Taken at

2016:09:09 13:55:11

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

2.8

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

2016:09:09 13:55:11

FileSource

Digital Camera

ModifyDate

2020:11:22 08:58:55

OffsetTime

+01:00

Saturation

Normal

Compression

JPEG (old-style)

ExifVersion

0231

FocalLength

35.0 mm

LightSource

Unknown

XResolution

240

YResolution

240

ExposureMode

Manual

ExposureTime

1/200

MeteringMode

Multi-segment

WhiteBalance

Auto

ApertureValue

2.8

CustomRendered

Normal

ResolutionUnit

inches

ThumbnailImage

(Binary data 17740 bytes, use -b option to extract)

BrightnessValue

5.88046875

ExposureProgram

Manual

SensitivityType

Recommended Exposure Index

ThumbnailLength

17740

ThumbnailOffset

942

DateTimeOriginal

2016:09:09 13:55:11

DigitalZoomRatio

MaxApertureValue

2.8

SceneCaptureType

Standard

ShutterSpeedValue

1/200

ExposureCompensation

FocalPlaneXResolution

1675.257385

FocalPlaneYResolution

1675.257385

FocalLengthIn35mmFormat

35 mm

FocalPlaneResolutionUnit

RecommendedExposureIndex

100

Raw XMP data

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IPTC

DateCreated

2016:09:09

TimeCreated

13:55:11

CodedCharacterSet

UTF8

DigitalCreationDate

2016:09:09

DigitalCreationTime

13:55:11

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

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Basic

Profile	Adobe Standard
White Balance	Custom
Temperature	5250
Tint		+9

Tone
Exposure		+0.03
Contrast		0
Highlights		-72
Shadows		+51
Whites		+19
Blacks		+27

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 muted, slightly matte urban-film look while keeping the red storefronts, signs, and façade visually dominant. Strong highlight recovery and lifted shadows compress the street’s wide brightness range, while a custom curve softens both black and white endpoints. Selective color desaturation, restrained sharpening, added grain, perspective correction, and a tighter crop complete the graphic documentary treatment.

Overall look

The image is intentionally restrained rather than vivid or highly crisp. The Adobe Standard camera profile is paired with an Adobe Color look, then shaped through a custom tone curve and selective HSL adjustments. Global saturation, vibrance, contrast, clarity, texture, and dehaze remain neutral, so the character comes primarily from tonal compression, selective color, and grain.

Light and tone

Exposure is essentially unchanged, indicating that the original overall brightness was already close to the intended level. Highlights are reduced strongly to -72, preserving detail in the bright sky and pale upper buildings. Shadows are raised to +51 and Blacks to +27, opening the shaded storefronts and street without making them look harsh. Whites at +19 restore some brightness after the highlight compression. The custom point curve lifts the black endpoint and lowers the white endpoint, producing the softly faded blacks and subdued brightest whites associated with a matte film rendering.

Color

A custom white balance of 5250 K with +9 tint gives the neutral masonry and sky a slightly warm, magenta-leaning balance rather than a cold digital appearance. Most color families are heavily muted: green and yellow are reduced by roughly 60 points, blue by 47, and aqua, purple, and magenta are also pulled back. Red is the exception, boosted by +20 saturation, which makes the red building, awnings, and shop signs stand out against the subdued surroundings. Small hue shifts in green, yellow, red, and blue further refine those urban colors without changing their luminance. The RGB curves are not identical, so there is also a subtle channel-based color shaping; visually, its effect is secondary to the stronger HSL desaturation.

Composition and geometry

A crop trims the frame, especially from the top and right, tightening attention around the street corridor, central pedestrians, water tower, and opposing façades. Upright perspective correction was applied to reduce the converging verticals typical of looking through a narrow street with a 35 mm lens. This helps the building edges feel more orderly while retaining the depth of the alley.

Detail and effects

Sharpening is moderate at 40 with a standard 1.0 radius and low detail emphasis. There is no luminance noise reduction, while standard color noise reduction is applied. Grain is deliberately added at Amount 30 and Size 30, giving the smooth sky, walls, and shadow areas a more tactile, analog texture. Inference: because the photograph was captured at ISO 100, the visible grain is primarily a stylistic addition rather than a response to significant capture noise.

What mattered most

Strong highlight recovery and raised shadows compress the street’s contrast while retaining architectural detail.
A lifted-black, lowered-white curve creates the matte tonal finish.
Most hues are desaturated, but red is enhanced to become the main color accent.
Moderate added grain supplies the film-like texture without clarity or dehaze.
Crop and Upright correction strengthen the architectural composition and street perspective.