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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 55mm f/1.8 ZA

min. focus distance: 1.64' / 50 cm

stabilization: no

weight: 281 g

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Focal length

55.0 mm

Aperture

ƒ/8.0

Shutter speed

1/320s

ISO

100

Metering mode

Center-weighted average

Exposure program

Aperture-priority AE

Exposure compensation

-0.3

Flash

Off, Did not fire

Taken at

2017:04:01 13:01:37

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

55mm f/1.8

Software

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 10.0 (Macintosh)

LensModel

FE 55mm F1.8 ZA

SceneType

Directly photographed

Sharpness

Normal

ColorSpace

sRGB

CreateDate

2017:04:01 13:01:37

FileSource

Digital Camera

ModifyDate

2020:11:22 09:29:52

OffsetTime

+01:00

Saturation

Normal

Compression

JPEG (old-style)

ExifVersion

0231

FocalLength

55.0 mm

LightSource

Unknown

XResolution

240

YResolution

240

ExposureMode

Auto

ExposureTime

1/320

MeteringMode

Center-weighted average

WhiteBalance

Auto

ApertureValue

8.0

CustomRendered

Normal

ResolutionUnit

inches

ThumbnailImage

(Binary data 10283 bytes, use -b option to extract)

BrightnessValue

10.3375

ExposureProgram

Aperture-priority AE

SensitivityType

Recommended Exposure Index

ThumbnailLength

10283

ThumbnailOffset

942

DateTimeOriginal

2017:04:01 13:01:37

DigitalZoomRatio

MaxApertureValue

1.8

SceneCaptureType

Standard

ShutterSpeedValue

1/320

ExposureCompensation

-0.3

FocalPlaneXResolution

1675.257385

FocalPlaneYResolution

1675.257385

FocalLengthIn35mmFormat

55 mm

FocalPlaneResolutionUnit

RecommendedExposureIndex

100

Raw XMP data

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IPTC

DateCreated

2017:04:01

TimeCreated

13:01:37

CodedCharacterSet

UTF8

DigitalCreationDate

2017:04:01

DigitalCreationTime

13:01:37

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

Note on Looks

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Basic

Profile	Adobe Standard
White Balance	Custom
Temperature	4974
Tint		+5

Tone
Exposure		-0.4
Contrast		+5
Highlights		-80
Shadows		+32
Whites		-28
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 subdued, slightly matte cityscape with controlled sky brightness, opened architectural shadows, and deliberately muted greens, yellows, and blues. Rather than adding punch or atmospheric drama, it compresses the tonal range and keeps the distant Rome skyline soft and restrained.

Overall look

The finished image has a low-key, muted character. A small exposure reduction combines with strong highlight and white recovery, lifted shadows, and a custom curve that raises the black floor and lowers the brightest endpoint. This produces soft blacks, restrained whites, and less overall brilliance while preserving the dome and surrounding buildings as the visual focus.

Light and tone

Highlights were reduced very strongly (-80) and Whites lowered, which holds detail in the overcast sky and prevents pale rooftops and façades from becoming too bright. Shadows were raised and Blacks increased, revealing detail in the foreground trees and darker architecture. The custom tone curve further lifts the deepest tones and compresses the top end, creating the noticeable matte finish. A slight contrast increase adds some separation back after this broad tonal compression.

Color

White balance is set near neutral daylight with a slight magenta tint, keeping the gray sky from becoming strongly blue or green. The strongest creative color work is selective desaturation: blue and green saturation are each reduced by about half, while yellow is also substantially reduced. This makes the sky, foliage, stone, and rooftops feel cohesive and understated. Green hue is shifted toward aqua, so the foreground vegetation appears cooler and less lush. Reds and oranges remain largely untouched, allowing the warm masonry and dome details to stand out gently against the muted surroundings.

Detail and atmosphere

No Texture, Clarity, or Dehaze was added, so distant atmospheric softness and the smooth overcast sky are retained rather than made crisp or dramatic. Moderate global sharpening supplies basic edge definition without masking. Color noise reduction is applied, but luminance noise reduction is absent; the ISO 100 capture provides useful context for why aggressive luminance smoothing was unnecessary.

Lens correction and cleanup

The Adobe profile for the Sony FE 55mm F1.8 ZA is enabled at full distortion and vignetting correction, helping keep architectural lines and illumination natural. No manual perspective correction or crop was used. A single small healing correction near the upper part of the frame appears intended to remove a minor spot or distraction from the otherwise plain sky; this is a reasonable visual inference from the heal coordinates.

What mattered most

The look depends mainly on tonal compression: darker exposure and recovered highlights paired with lifted shadows and blacks.
A raised black point and lowered white endpoint create the soft, matte rendering.
Heavy blue, green, and yellow desaturation gives the cityscape its quiet, cohesive palette.
Leaving Clarity, Texture, and Dehaze at zero preserves natural distance and atmospheric softness.
Warm architectural colors remain comparatively intact, helping the dome and masonry separate from the cool, muted foliage and sky.