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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

640

Metering mode

Multi-segment

Exposure program

Manual

Exposure compensation

-0.3

Flash

Off, Did not fire

Taken at

2016:09:14 02:08:55

Software

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 10.0 (Macintosh)

no copyright note in EXIF

GPS Location

—

GPS Altitude

—

GPS Date & time

—

Raw EXIF data

ISO

640

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

2016:09:14 02:08:55

FileSource

Digital Camera

ModifyDate

2020:11:21 13:56:45

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 10419 bytes, use -b option to extract)

BrightnessValue

3.0328125

ExposureProgram

Manual

SensitivityType

Recommended Exposure Index

ThumbnailLength

10419

ThumbnailOffset

942

DateTimeOriginal

2016:09:14 02:08:55

DigitalZoomRatio

MaxApertureValue

2.8

SceneCaptureType

Standard

ShutterSpeedValue

1/200

ExposureCompensation

-0.3

FocalPlaneXResolution

1675.257385

FocalPlaneYResolution

1675.257385

FocalLengthIn35mmFormat

35 mm

FocalPlaneResolutionUnit

RecommendedExposureIndex

640

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IPTC

DateCreated

2016:09:14

TimeCreated

02:08:55

CodedCharacterSet

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DigitalCreationTime

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ApplicationRecordVersion

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Look

Name	Adobe Color
Group	Profiles
Cluster
Amount	1.0

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Basic

Profile	Adobe Standard
White Balance	Custom
Temperature	7300
Tint		-6

Tone
Exposure		+1.05
Contrast		+6
Highlights		-55
Shadows		+59
Whites		-23
Blacks		+8

Presence
Texture		0
Clarity		+14
Dehaze		0
Vibrance		+13
Saturation		+1

Tone Curve

Tone Curve:

Region
Highlights		0
Lights		0
Darks		0
Shadows		0

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The edit creates a muted, film-like coastal scene with a bright but compressed sky, open shadow detail, subdued colors, and conspicuous coarse grain. The warning sign remains the clearest graphic element, while the rocks, vegetation, water, and clouds are unified by a restrained blue-green-gray palette.

Overall look

Adobe Color provides the starting rendering, but the custom tone and RGB curves substantially soften it. Raised blacks, compressed highlights, broad desaturation, and large grain produce a weathered analog character rather than a clean digital finish. The modest global contrast increase and added clarity preserve enough structure for the sign, rocks, and vegetation to stand apart within that softened tonal range.

Light and tone

Exposure was raised by a substantial +1.05 EV, bringing the overcast landscape into a brighter register. To keep that lift from washing out the cloudy sky, Highlights were reduced to -55 and Whites to -23. Shadows were opened strongly to +59, revealing the dark rocks and shoreline plants, while Blacks at +8 further reduce deep clipping. The custom tone curve reinforces the matte treatment: its black endpoint is lifted markedly and its white endpoint is lowered, compressing both extremes. This interaction explains why the image can feel bright and detailed without having brilliant whites or truly solid blacks.

Color

A custom white balance of 7300 K adds warmth, while Tint at -6 introduces a slight green bias. Most individual color families were then heavily desaturated: orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and magenta are all reduced, with purple and magenta cut by more than 80 points. Aqua and blue are also restrained, keeping the sea and sky gray-blue rather than vivid. Red is the exception, receiving a small saturation increase, which helps any faint warm accents survive the otherwise broad color suppression. Custom red, green, and blue curves add subtle channel separation; a reasonable visual inference is that they help produce cooler deep tones and gently warmer upper midtones, contributing to the understated cross-processed feel.

Detail and texture

Clarity at +14 adds localized edge contrast around the sign lettering, rock surfaces, and vegetation without the harsher atmospheric effect of Dehaze, which remains at zero. Sharpening is moderate and uses no masking, so it affects both subject edges and fine background texture. Color noise reduction is applied at 25, but luminance noise reduction is absent. The ISO 640 capture provides relevant context: some natural luminance texture may remain, though the dominant texture is intentionally added grain.

Grain and finishing effects

Grain is a defining part of the finish: Amount 33 with a large Size of 60 creates clearly visible, coarse texture across the smooth sky and water. This works with the lifted black point and subdued palette to simulate a scanned or high-speed film appearance. No post-crop vignette was added, so attention is guided primarily by the central sign, tonal contrast, and composition rather than darkened corners.

Crop and alignment

The frame was rotated by about 1.25 degrees and trimmed slightly from both sides. This likely serves to level the waterline while keeping the warning sign near the central vertical axis. No perspective correction or lens-profile correction was enabled.

What mattered most

A strong exposure lift was balanced by highlight recovery, lowered whites, and a compressed tone curve.
Lifted blacks and opened shadows create the soft, matte dynamic range.
Heavy selective desaturation produces the restrained gray-blue-green coastal palette.
Moderate clarity maintains definition despite the softened tones.
Large added grain is central to the intentionally weathered, film-like finish.