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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/4.0

Shutter speed

1/200s

ISO

100

Metering mode

Multi-segment

Exposure program

Aperture-priority AE

Exposure compensation

-0.3

Flash

Off, Did not fire

Taken at

2016:09:19 16:07:34

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

4.0

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

2016:09:19 16:07:34

FileSource

Digital Camera

ModifyDate

2020:11:21 15:17:28

OffsetTime

+01:00

Saturation

Normal

Compression

JPEG (old-style)

ExifVersion

0231

FocalLength

35.0 mm

LightSource

Unknown

XResolution

240

YResolution

240

ExposureMode

Auto bracket

ExposureTime

1/200

MeteringMode

Multi-segment

WhiteBalance

Auto

ApertureValue

4.0

CustomRendered

Normal

ResolutionUnit

inches

ThumbnailImage

(Binary data 11873 bytes, use -b option to extract)

BrightnessValue

6.61875

ExposureProgram

Aperture-priority AE

SensitivityType

Recommended Exposure Index

ThumbnailLength

11873

ThumbnailOffset

942

DateTimeOriginal

2016:09:19 16:07:34

DigitalZoomRatio

MaxApertureValue

2.8

SceneCaptureType

Standard

ShutterSpeedValue

1/200

ExposureCompensation

-0.3

FocalPlaneXResolution

1675.257385

FocalPlaneYResolution

1675.257385

FocalLengthIn35mmFormat

35 mm

FocalPlaneResolutionUnit

RecommendedExposureIndex

100

Raw XMP data

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IPTC

DateCreated

2016:09:19

TimeCreated

16:07:34

CodedCharacterSet

UTF8

DigitalCreationDate

2016:09:19

DigitalCreationTime

16:07:34

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

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Basic

Profile	Adobe Standard
White Balance	As Shot
Temperature	5750
Tint		+3

Tone
Exposure		+0.50
Contrast		+30
Highlights		-79
Shadows		+53
Whites		-6
Blacks		+43

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

Tone Curve

Tone Curve:

Region
Highlights		0
Lights		0
Darks		0
Shadows		0

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The edit creates a restrained, cinematic dusk rendering: the bridge remains a strong near-silhouette, while the sky and water are softly opened, highlight color is preserved, and blues are heavily muted. Lifted blacks and added grain give the image a slightly faded, film-like finish rather than a crisp modern digital look.

Overall look

The treatment balances a dark, graphic bridge against a subdued pastel sky. Adobe’s color rendering provides the base, but selective desaturation, a custom tone curve, and visible grain push the result toward a muted analog aesthetic. There is no added clarity, texture, dehaze, or vignette, so the image remains soft and atmospheric rather than aggressively defined.

Light and tone

Exposure was raised by half a stop, while Shadows (+53) and Blacks (+43) substantially opened the darker regions. At the same time, Highlights were reduced very strongly (-79) and Whites slightly lowered, protecting the sunset bands and preventing the pale sky from becoming harsh. Added Contrast (+30) restores separation after that tonal compression, helping the bridge retain its imposing silhouette. The custom curve lifts the black endpoint significantly and gently compresses the tonal range, producing faded charcoal shadows instead of absolute black. This interaction—opened shadows, controlled highlights, added contrast, and a raised black floor—is central to the cinematic look.

Color

The as-shot white balance is moderately warm at 5750K with a slight magenta tint, supporting the peach and pink light near the horizon. The strongest color move is selective muting: aqua saturation is reduced by 74 and blue by 51, which turns the sky and water into restrained blue-gray tones. Yellow saturation is also reduced and its hue shifted strongly toward orange, helping the sunset read as soft peach rather than vivid yellow. Blue is shifted slightly toward aqua, while the RGB curves introduce subtle channel differences that appear to reinforce cooler dark tones and delicately colored highlights. This is a targeted palette reduction rather than a global desaturation; overall Saturation is essentially unchanged at +1.

Detail and texture

Moderate sharpening was applied with a 1.0 radius and low detail emphasis, enough to define cables and structural edges without creating a brittle look. No luminance noise reduction was used, which is reasonable given the ISO 100 capture, while standard color noise reduction controls possible chroma speckling. Grain is intentionally prominent at Amount 30 with medium size and frequency. This added grain supplies much of the photograph’s tactile, film-like texture and keeps the smooth sky and water from appearing overly digital.

Composition and corrections

The frame was cropped on the sides and slightly along the bottom, then rotated by about 1.9 degrees. This likely served to level the scene and tighten attention around the bridge span; that purpose is a visual inference. No automatic lens profile, distortion correction, perspective correction, chromatic-aberration correction, or post-crop vignette was applied.

What mattered most

Strong highlight recovery preserves the pastel sunset while raised shadows and blacks prevent the bridge from becoming featureless.
A lifted black curve creates the faded charcoal foundation of the image.
Heavy aqua and blue desaturation is responsible for the subdued blue-gray sky and water.
Warm white balance and shifted yellows retain gentle peach color near the horizon.
Medium-strength grain, rather than clarity or dehaze, provides the principal texture and film-like character.