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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

1/1250s

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 13:10:44

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 13:10:44

FileSource

Digital Camera

ModifyDate

2020:11:22 09:32:52

OffsetTime

+01:00

Saturation

Normal

Compression

JPEG (old-style)

ExifVersion

0231

FocalLength

55.0 mm

LightSource

Unknown

XResolution

240

YResolution

240

ExposureMode

Auto

ExposureTime

1/1250

MeteringMode

Center-weighted average

WhiteBalance

Auto

ApertureValue

8.0

CustomRendered

Normal

ResolutionUnit

inches

ThumbnailImage

(Binary data 15047 bytes, use -b option to extract)

BrightnessValue

11.05234375

ExposureProgram

Aperture-priority AE

SensitivityType

Recommended Exposure Index

ThumbnailLength

15047

ThumbnailOffset

942

DateTimeOriginal

2017:04:01 13:10:44

DigitalZoomRatio

MaxApertureValue

1.8

SceneCaptureType

Standard

ShutterSpeedValue

1/1250

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

13:10:44

CodedCharacterSet

UTF8

DigitalCreationDate

2017:04:01

DigitalCreationTime

13:10:44

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	Custom
Temperature	5150
Tint		+1

Tone
Exposure		+0.60
Contrast		+14
Highlights		-62
Shadows		+51
Whites		-4
Blacks		+37

Presence
Texture		0
Clarity		0
Dehaze		0
Vibrance		+15
Saturation		+2

Tone Curve

Tone Curve:

Region
Highlights		0
Lights		0
Darks		0
Shadows		0

Color Mixer / HSL

Hue
Red		-10
Orange		-11
Yellow		-15
Green		+18
Aqua		0
Blue		-4
Purple		0
Magenta		0

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The photograph was shaped into a bright, restrained architectural cityscape with open shadow detail, controlled overcast highlights, muted secondary colors, and selective emphasis on the warm buildings and small red accents. Perspective correction and the 55mm lens profile help the domes, façades, and flagpole read as orderly and upright.

Overall look

The edit favors clarity of the scene rather than dramatic atmosphere. Adobe Color provides the base rendering, while a modest vibrance increase keeps the image from feeling lifeless. Strong HSL desaturation then limits distracting blues, yellows, aquas, and greens, producing the subdued palette visible across the sky, paving, and architecture.

Light and tone

Exposure was raised by 0.60 EV to brighten the overcast scene. Highlights were pulled down substantially (-62) while shadows were lifted (+51), recovering detail in the pale sky, domes, façades, and shaded figures. Blacks were also raised strongly (+37), so dark clothing and architectural recesses remain readable rather than becoming solid black. A small contrast increase offsets some of that flattening. The custom tone curve lifts the black endpoint and slightly lowers the white endpoint, creating gently faded extremes, while its middle section restores separation and definition. The result is broad tonal detail without harsh highlights or deep, crushed shadows.

Color

The custom white balance of 5150 K with nearly neutral tint keeps the cloudy daylight natural and slightly cool. Vibrance is increased more than overall saturation, but HSL controls do most of the styling: aqua, blue, yellow, green, and orange are selectively desaturated, with especially strong reductions to aqua and yellow. Red receives a slight saturation boost, helping the Italian flag, clothing, and small street details stand out. Blue luminance is raised, contributing to the soft, pale sky; yellow and orange luminance are also lifted to keep stone and plaster façades airy. Green luminance is reduced, giving the umbrella pines and other foliage more visual weight despite their reduced saturation. Hue shifts in red, orange, yellow, and green further consolidate the architecture into a restrained warm palette.

Detail and capture context

Moderate sharpening was applied with a 1.0 radius and low detail emphasis, enhancing architectural edges without an aggressive crunchy treatment. Color noise reduction is at its standard moderate level, while luminance noise reduction is absent. This is appropriate for the clean ISO 100 capture, where heavy smoothing was unnecessary. The f/8 capture also materially supports the extensive front-to-back architectural detail seen in the finished image.

Geometry and lens correction

The Adobe profile for the Sony FE 55mm F1.8 ZA is enabled at full distortion and vignetting correction strength. An Upright perspective correction was also applied, helping the prominent flagpole and building edges appear vertically organized. This is especially useful in a dense architectural composition viewed from an elevated position. No manual crop was recorded, so the original frame boundaries were retained.

Effects

No dehaze, texture, added clarity, grain, or post-crop vignette was used. This preserves the naturally soft overcast atmosphere and avoids drawing attention away from the layered architecture and activity in the square.

What mattered most

The tonal strategy combines brighter exposure with strong highlight recovery and lifted shadows/blacks.
A custom curve softens the deepest blacks and brightest whites while preserving midtone structure.
Selective HSL desaturation creates the muted palette, while slightly stronger reds preserve small visual accents.
Lens-profile and Upright corrections reinforce the formal architectural geometry.
Minimal effects and restrained sharpening keep the result natural rather than heavily stylized.