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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

1/160s

ISO

100

Metering mode

Multi-segment

Exposure program

Manual

Exposure compensation

Flash

Off, Did not fire

Taken at

2017:03:29 14:38:14

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

Normal

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

2017:03:29 14:38:14

FileSource

Digital Camera

ModifyDate

2020:11:21 16:23:57

OffsetTime

+01:00

Saturation

Normal

Compression

JPEG (old-style)

ExifVersion

0231

FocalLength

35.0 mm

LightSource

Unknown

XResolution

240

YResolution

240

ExposureMode

Manual

ExposureTime

1/160

MeteringMode

Multi-segment

WhiteBalance

Auto

ApertureValue

8.0

CustomRendered

Normal

ResolutionUnit

inches

ThumbnailImage

(Binary data 15764 bytes, use -b option to extract)

BrightnessValue

9.69296875

ExposureProgram

Manual

SensitivityType

Recommended Exposure Index

ThumbnailLength

15764

ThumbnailOffset

942

DateTimeOriginal

2017:03:29 14:38:14

DigitalZoomRatio

MaxApertureValue

2.8

SceneCaptureType

Standard

ShutterSpeedValue

1/160

ExposureCompensation

FocalPlaneXResolution

1675.257385

FocalPlaneYResolution

1675.257385

FocalLengthIn35mmFormat

35 mm

FocalPlaneResolutionUnit

RecommendedExposureIndex

100

Raw XMP data

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IPTC

DateCreated

2017:03:29

TimeCreated

14:38:14

CodedCharacterSet

UTF8

DigitalCreationDate

2017:03:29

DigitalCreationTime

14:38:14

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	As Shot
Temperature	5050
Tint		+4

Tone
Exposure		-0.03
Contrast		+6
Highlights		-79
Shadows		+58
Whites		-14
Blacks		+9

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

Tone Curve

Tone Curve:

Region
Highlights		0
Lights		0
Darks		0
Shadows		0

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The edit creates a bright, documentary travel image with controlled midday contrast, muted warm architecture, restrained color, and a pronounced film-like grain. Strong highlight recovery protects the sky and sunlit paving, while lifted shadows reveal the Pantheon’s portico and the people beneath it without making the scene look flat.

Overall look

The Adobe Color look provides a moderately vivid starting point, but the subsequent adjustments steer it toward a subdued, slightly vintage rendering. Global saturation is essentially neutral, vibrance is raised modestly, and several dominant colors are selectively reduced. This keeps the crowd lively while preventing the sunlit stone, paving, and sky from becoming overly colorful.

Light and tone

Exposure is almost unchanged, so the edit is primarily tonal rather than a general brightening. Highlights are reduced very strongly (-79) and whites are lowered, retaining detail in the pale sky, roof, façade, and reflective cobbles. Shadows are lifted substantially (+58), opening the deep portico and shaded foreground seating. A small contrast increase, slightly raised black control, and a custom curve restore shape after that broad dynamic-range compression. The curve darkens lower tones slightly while lifting upper midtones, giving the building and street more definition without sacrificing recovered detail.

Color

The as-shot white balance is moderately warm at 5050 K with a slight magenta tint, supporting the warm beige and rose tones of the masonry. Vibrance (+14) adds life mainly to weaker colors, while selective HSL reductions keep the palette restrained: yellow is reduced heavily, blue by a substantial amount, orange moderately, and red slightly. This helps the stone avoid a strong yellow-orange cast and produces the pale, understated blue sky visible in the finished image. The individual RGB curves also differ subtly; a reasonable visual inference is that they contribute to the gentle warm-film character, especially through the darker and upper-mid tonal regions, rather than creating obvious color grading.

Geometry and composition

An Upright perspective transformation was applied, which is useful for the strong architectural verticals of the Pantheon and neighboring buildings. The result keeps the monumental façade visually stable despite the upward camera angle. A small crop from the top and right trims the transformed edges while retaining the street activity, left-side building, and café foreground as framing elements.

Detail and texture

Moderate sharpening is applied with a standard radius and low detail emphasis. There is no added Texture, Clarity, or Dehaze, so fine structure comes mainly from the capture and sharpening rather than aggressive local contrast. Color noise reduction is present, but luminance noise reduction is absent. The low ISO 100 capture materially supports that choice because little luminance cleanup would have been necessary, preserving detail in the stonework and cobbles.

Effects

Grain is the strongest stylistic effect: amount 40 with medium size and roughness. It is visible across the sky and masonry and gives the otherwise clean digital file a tactile, analog-travel-photograph finish. No post-crop vignette is used, so attention is directed by the architecture, tonal contrast, and natural foreground shadows rather than artificial edge darkening.

What mattered most

The central tonal strategy is strong highlight recovery paired with substantial shadow opening.
Selective desaturation of yellow, blue, and orange creates the muted warm-stone and pale-sky palette.
Custom curves and mild contrast prevent the recovered tones from appearing flat.
Perspective correction strengthens the architectural composition.
Pronounced grain supplies most of the image’s vintage, film-like character.