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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/5.6

Shutter speed

1/200s

ISO

100

Metering mode

Multi-segment

Exposure program

Aperture-priority AE

Exposure compensation

Flash

Off, Did not fire

Taken at

2017:11:23 12:11:25

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

5.6

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

2017:11:23 12:11:25

FileSource

Digital Camera

ModifyDate

2020:11:22 09:37:06

OffsetTime

+01:00

Saturation

Normal

Compression

JPEG (old-style)

ExifVersion

0231

FocalLength

35.0 mm

LightSource

Unknown

XResolution

240

YResolution

240

ExposureMode

Auto

ExposureTime

1/200

MeteringMode

Multi-segment

WhiteBalance

Auto

ApertureValue

5.6

CustomRendered

Normal

ResolutionUnit

inches

ThumbnailImage

(Binary data 9669 bytes, use -b option to extract)

BrightnessValue

8.73203125

ExposureProgram

Aperture-priority AE

SensitivityType

Recommended Exposure Index

ThumbnailLength

9669

ThumbnailOffset

942

DateTimeOriginal

2017:11:23 12:11:25

DigitalZoomRatio

MaxApertureValue

2.8

SceneCaptureType

Standard

ShutterSpeedValue

1/200

ExposureCompensation

FocalPlaneXResolution

1675.257385

FocalPlaneYResolution

1675.257385

FocalLengthIn35mmFormat

35 mm

FocalPlaneResolutionUnit

RecommendedExposureIndex

100

Raw XMP data

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IPTC

DateCreated

2017:11:23

TimeCreated

12:11:25

CodedCharacterSet

UTF8

DigitalCreationDate

2017:11:23

DigitalCreationTime

12:11:25

ApplicationRecordVersion

Photoshop

IPTCDigest

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XResolution

240

YResolution

240

DisplayedUnitsX

inches

DisplayedUnitsY

inches

PhotoshopThumbnail

(Binary data 9669 bytes, use -b option to extract)

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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	Custom
Temperature	5500
Tint		+5

Tone
Exposure		+0.55
Contrast		0
Highlights		+100
Shadows		-19
Whites		+28
Blacks		+22

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 bright, restrained architectural image with an almost monochrome palette, softened tonal endpoints, strong luminous highlights, and conspicuous film-like grain. Perspective correction keeps the building’s geometry disciplined, while the absence of clarity, texture, and dehaze preserves a gentle rather than hyper-detailed rendering.

Overall look

The photograph is intentionally minimalist and nearly black-and-white without using Lightroom’s grayscale conversion. Adobe Color remains the base profile, but extensive individual color desaturation leaves the pale façade, gray paving, glass, and overcast sky as the dominant visual elements. This emphasizes shape, repetition, and architectural lines rather than color.

Light and tone

Exposure was raised by 0.55 stop, Whites by 28, and Highlights all the way to +100. Together these produce the very bright sky and luminous white façade, giving the scene its high-key, airy character. The treatment is not simply flat: Shadows were reduced while Blacks were raised, and the custom tone curve lifts the absolute black point but slightly darkens much of the shadow and midtone range. This creates defined steps, paving, window frames, and recesses without allowing them to become hard, featureless black. The curve also lowers the white endpoint, gently compressing the brightest output even as the highlight controls push bright source tones upward. The result is a soft, faded ceiling to the highlights rather than crisp pure white.

Color

The muted appearance comes primarily from targeted HSL reductions: yellow and green are almost completely removed, with strong reductions to blue, aqua, purple, and magenta as well. Orange is only slightly reduced and red is unchanged, but there is little strong warm color in the scene, so the finished image still reads as nearly monochrome. Green hue was shifted, though its heavy desaturation makes that change visually minor. A custom white balance of 5500 K with a slight magenta tint keeps the remaining neutrals from feeling strongly blue or green. No color grading or split toning was added.

Geometry and composition

An Upright perspective transformation was applied, which is especially relevant to this 35 mm architectural view. It helps regularize the building’s vertical and horizontal structure and supports the formal, graphic presentation. No manual crop was recorded, so the broad foreground sweep and converging paths remain part of the original framing. Lens-profile correction and automatic lateral chromatic-aberration correction were not enabled.

Detail and texture

Moderate sharpening was applied with a standard radius, but there is no masking and no added Texture or Clarity. Dehaze is also at zero. This avoids an aggressively crisp or gritty digital treatment in the façade and sky. Color noise reduction is present, while luminance noise reduction is absent; at the supplied ISO 100 capture setting, heavy luminance cleanup would generally be unnecessary.

Effects

Grain is a major finishing element: Amount 40 with Size 30 and medium roughness adds clearly visible texture, particularly across the blank sky and smooth white walls. This deliberately counters the clean digital capture and reinforces the understated, film-like character. No vignette was added, so brightness remains open and even toward the frame edges.

What mattered most

The high-key appearance comes from raised exposure, whites, and an extreme +100 Highlights setting.
A lifted black point and compressed white endpoint soften both tonal extremes, while darker lower midtones preserve architectural definition.
Heavy selective desaturation creates an almost monochrome result without converting the photograph to grayscale.
Perspective correction strengthens the ordered architectural geometry.
Strong grain supplies the principal surface texture; clarity, texture, dehaze, and vignetting were deliberately left neutral.