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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/2.8

Shutter speed

1/250s

ISO

100

Metering mode

Center-weighted average

Exposure program

Aperture-priority AE

Exposure compensation

Flash

Off, Did not fire

Taken at

2017:06:04 13:12:50

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

2.8

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

2017:06:04 13:12:50

FileSource

Digital Camera

ModifyDate

2020:11:22 09:35:45

OffsetTime

+01:00

Saturation

Normal

Compression

JPEG (old-style)

ExifVersion

0231

FocalLength

55.0 mm

LightSource

Unknown

XResolution

240

YResolution

240

ExposureMode

Auto

ExposureTime

1/250

MeteringMode

Center-weighted average

WhiteBalance

Auto

ApertureValue

2.8

CustomRendered

Normal

ResolutionUnit

inches

ThumbnailImage

(Binary data 21534 bytes, use -b option to extract)

BrightnessValue

5.0328125

ExposureProgram

Aperture-priority AE

SensitivityType

Recommended Exposure Index

ThumbnailLength

21534

ThumbnailOffset

942

DateTimeOriginal

2017:06:04 13:12:50

DigitalZoomRatio

MaxApertureValue

1.8

SceneCaptureType

Standard

ShutterSpeedValue

1/250

ExposureCompensation

FocalPlaneXResolution

1675.257385

FocalPlaneYResolution

1675.257385

FocalLengthIn35mmFormat

55 mm

FocalPlaneResolutionUnit

RecommendedExposureIndex

100

Raw XMP data

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IPTC

DateCreated

2017:06:04

TimeCreated

13:12:50

CodedCharacterSet

UTF8

DigitalCreationDate

2017:06:04

DigitalCreationTime

13:12:50

ApplicationRecordVersion

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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	As Shot
Temperature	6150
Tint		+10

Tone
Exposure		+0.80
Contrast		-4
Highlights		-37
Shadows		-69
Whites		-7
Blacks		+26

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 moody, film-like environmental portrait: the overall exposure is lifted, but the foliage and clothing remain deep and dramatic, while the purple flowers are selectively emphasized. A matte tone curve, restrained highlights, muted surrounding colors, and strong added grain keep the image from looking bright or digitally polished.

Overall look and composition

A substantial crop tightens the frame around the woman and the wall of flowers, making the repeated blossoms and dark foliage function as a graphic backdrop. Lens-profile correction for the Sony FE 55mm F1.8 ZA was enabled, correcting the lens’s expected distortion and light falloff without additional manual perspective work.

Light and tone

Exposure was raised by 0.80 EV to bring the subject, flowers, and shaded scene to a useful overall brightness. That lift was counterbalanced by strongly reducing Shadows (-69), which keeps the black shirt and dense foliage dark rather than opening every shaded area. Highlights were reduced (-37) and Whites slightly lowered, protecting pale skin, silver hair, and bright flower petals. Blacks were raised (+26), while the custom tone curve lifts the black endpoint and compresses the brightest endpoint. Together these choices produce deep-looking shadows that do not fall to absolute black and highlights that stop short of stark white—the characteristic muted, matte finish visible in the photograph. Slightly reduced global contrast reinforces the softer tonal transitions.

Color and subject separation

The white balance is relatively warm at 6150K with a +10 magenta tint, helping the woman’s skin and hair avoid a cool cast within the green surroundings. Color was shaped mainly through targeted HSL controls rather than global saturation. Purple and magenta saturation were increased substantially, and their luminance was raised, making the rhododendron blossoms brighter and more prominent. Their hues were also shifted, refining the flowers toward the lavender-magenta palette seen here. In contrast, green saturation was reduced while green luminance was raised slightly. This keeps leaf detail visible but makes the foliage less colorful and less competitive. Yellow, blue, aqua, and red were also strongly subdued; orange was reduced more gently to keep skin from becoming overly vivid. The result is selective color contrast: luminous purple flowers and natural skin against restrained, dark greenery. This subject-separation effect is a visual inference supported by the HSL settings and photograph.

Detail and texture

Moderate sharpening was applied with a 1.0 radius and standard detail, but no masking. There is no luminance noise reduction, while standard color-noise reduction remains at 25. The ISO 100 capture would not normally require aggressive noise cleanup, which makes the absence of luminance smoothing appropriate for retaining fine hair, fabric, and leaf texture.

Film-like effects

Grain is a major stylistic component: Amount 40 with a relatively small Size 25 and medium Roughness/Frequency. This overlays a clearly visible but fine texture across skin, clothing, and foliage, reducing the clean digital character of the low-ISO file and supporting the matte tonal treatment. No post-crop vignette, dehaze, clarity, texture, split toning, or color grading was added, so the atmosphere comes primarily from the tone curve, selective HSL work, and grain rather than heavy local-contrast or edge-darkening effects.

What mattered most

Exposure was lifted, then deep shadows and restrained highlights rebuilt the scene’s moody tonal structure.
The custom curve creates lifted blacks and compressed whites for a matte, film-like finish.
Purple and magenta flowers were enhanced while greens, yellows, blues, and aquas were muted to focus attention on the subject and blossoms.
Strong fine grain supplies the principal finishing texture; clarity, dehaze, vignetting, and color grading were left neutral.