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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

1/250s

ISO

100

Metering mode

Multi-segment

Exposure program

Aperture-priority AE

Exposure compensation

Flash

Off, Did not fire

Taken at

2016:09:14 19:03:57

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

2016:09:14 19:03:57

FileSource

Digital Camera

ModifyDate

2020:11:22 09:15:38

OffsetTime

+01:00

Saturation

Normal

Compression

JPEG (old-style)

ExifVersion

0231

FocalLength

35.0 mm

LightSource

Unknown

XResolution

240

YResolution

240

ExposureMode

Auto

ExposureTime

1/250

MeteringMode

Multi-segment

WhiteBalance

Auto

ApertureValue

8.0

CustomRendered

Normal

ResolutionUnit

inches

ThumbnailImage

(Binary data 13319 bytes, use -b option to extract)

BrightnessValue

9.82578125

ExposureProgram

Aperture-priority AE

SensitivityType

Recommended Exposure Index

ThumbnailLength

13319

ThumbnailOffset

942

DateTimeOriginal

2016:09:14 19:03:57

DigitalZoomRatio

MaxApertureValue

2.8

SceneCaptureType

Standard

ShutterSpeedValue

1/250

ExposureCompensation

FocalPlaneXResolution

1675.257385

FocalPlaneYResolution

1675.257385

FocalLengthIn35mmFormat

35 mm

FocalPlaneResolutionUnit

RecommendedExposureIndex

100

Raw XMP data

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IPTC

DateCreated

2016:09:14

TimeCreated

19:03:57

CodedCharacterSet

UTF8

DigitalCreationDate

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DigitalCreationTime

19:03:57

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	Custom
Temperature	4950
Tint		+12

Tone
Exposure		-0.11
Contrast		+7
Highlights		-67
Shadows		+52
Whites		-16
Blacks		+29

Presence
Texture		0
Clarity		0
Dehaze		0
Vibrance		0
Saturation		-22

Tone Curve

Tone Curve:

Region
Highlights		0
Lights		0
Darks		0
Shadows		0

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The edit creates a restrained, slightly matte cityscape with controlled midday contrast and subdued color. Strong highlight recovery and shadow lifting preserve detail across bright rooftops and dark building faces, while the custom curve softens both black and white endpoints. Broad and selective desaturation make the skyline feel cool, architectural, and understated rather than vivid.

Overall look

The photograph is shaped into a muted, cool-toned urban scene. Adobe Color supplies the starting rendering, but overall saturation is reduced by 22 and several individual color families are desaturated much more heavily. The result emphasizes building geometry, density, and tonal structure over colorful signage or foliage.

Light and tone

The slight exposure reduction of 0.11 EV keeps the bright daytime scene contained. Highlights are pulled down strongly at -67 and whites by -16, preserving cloud texture, pale rooftops, and reflective façades. Shadows are raised by +52 and blacks by +29, opening detail in the darker towers without making the image conventionally bright. A small contrast increase of +7 restores some separation after this compression. The custom point curve lifts the black endpoint substantially and lowers the brightest endpoint slightly, producing the softened, matte boundaries visible in the deepest shadows and brightest sky. Together, the Basic adjustments recover local information while the curve gives that information a flatter, more stylized tonal finish.

Color

The custom white balance of 4950K with +12 tint keeps the scene from becoming excessively cold or green. Color is then simplified aggressively: blue saturation is reduced by 57, green by 67, yellow by 52, and aqua by 20. This suppresses strong sky, water, vegetation, and city-color accents. Blue and aqua luminance are raised by 20 and 15, respectively, helping the sky and lake remain airy despite their reduced saturation. Blue hue is shifted by -24 and aqua by +10, subtly reorganizing the blue-cyan relationship rather than leaving a single intense blue field. The RGB curves are nearly matched, with only a small blue-channel difference through darker midtones; visually, this supports a very restrained color bias rather than obvious split toning. No color grading or split toning was added.

Detail

Sharpening is moderate at 40 with a 1.0 radius and 25 detail, supporting the fine windows and building edges without an especially hard or gritty treatment. Color noise reduction is set to 25, while luminance noise reduction is zero. The ISO 100 capture provides useful context: the clean file likely required little luminance smoothing, allowing architectural detail to remain intact.

Composition and effects

The frame is rotated by roughly one degree and trimmed slightly from both sides, likely to refine the horizon and edge placement while retaining the wide skyline composition. This is a reasonable visual inference from the crop data. There is no added vignette, grain, clarity, texture, or dehaze, so the finished atmosphere comes primarily from tonal compression, the matte curve, and selective desaturation rather than presence or effects controls. Lens profile correction and automatic lateral chromatic-aberration correction were not enabled.

What mattered most

Strong highlight recovery and shadow lifting retain detail throughout the high-contrast skyline.
A lifted black point and lowered white endpoint create the soft, matte tonal boundaries.
Heavy global and selective desaturation produces the restrained architectural palette.
Raised blue and aqua luminance keeps the lake and sky light even after their color is subdued.
Minimal noise reduction and moderate sharpening preserve fine building detail.