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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/3.2

Shutter speed

1/250s

ISO

100

Metering mode

Multi-segment

Exposure program

Manual

Exposure compensation

Flash

Off, Did not fire

Taken at

2017:12:21 15:56:09

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

3.2

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

2017:12:21 15:56:09

FileSource

Digital Camera

ModifyDate

2020:11:21 17:08:18

OffsetTime

+01:00

Saturation

Normal

Compression

JPEG (old-style)

ExifVersion

0231

FocalLength

55.0 mm

LightSource

Unknown

XResolution

240

YResolution

240

ExposureMode

Manual

ExposureTime

1/250

MeteringMode

Multi-segment

WhiteBalance

Auto

ApertureValue

3.2

CustomRendered

Normal

ResolutionUnit

inches

ThumbnailImage

(Binary data 9012 bytes, use -b option to extract)

BrightnessValue

7.9859375

ExposureProgram

Manual

SensitivityType

Recommended Exposure Index

ThumbnailLength

9012

ThumbnailOffset

942

DateTimeOriginal

2017:12:21 15:56:09

DigitalZoomRatio

MaxApertureValue

1.8

SceneCaptureType

Standard

ShutterSpeedValue

1/250

ExposureCompensation

FocalPlaneXResolution

1675.257385

FocalPlaneYResolution

1675.257385

FocalLengthIn35mmFormat

55 mm

FocalPlaneResolutionUnit

RecommendedExposureIndex

100

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IPTC

DateCreated

2017:12:21

TimeCreated

15:56:09

CodedCharacterSet

UTF8

DigitalCreationDate

2017:12:21

DigitalCreationTime

15:56:09

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

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Basic

Profile	Adobe Standard
White Balance	Custom
Temperature	5600
Tint		+10

Tone
Exposure		+0.10
Contrast		+7
Highlights		-65
Shadows		+34
Whites		-25
Blacks		+23

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, pastel, film-like beach scene with compressed contrast, soft atmospheric distance, subdued cool colors, and visible grain. Strong highlight recovery and lifted dark tones preserve detail while keeping the image airy; selective HSL changes mute the sea, sky, and foliage while allowing small warm accents to remain noticeable.

Overall look

The photograph is intentionally low-contrast and slightly faded rather than crisp or deeply saturated. The Adobe Color look provides the starting color response, while the custom curves, restrained global contrast, selective desaturation, and grain create the finished analog-inspired character. No crop or perspective transformation was applied, so the original open composition and natural architectural perspective were retained.

Light and tone

A small exposure lift brightens the frame, but Highlights at -65 and Whites at -25 strongly restrain the pale sky, surf, and building façades. Shadows are opened and Blacks are raised substantially (+23), preventing the people, beach structures, and lower portions of the buildings from becoming heavy silhouettes. The custom tone curve lifts the black point, slightly suppresses darker midtones, and transitions toward nearly normal highlights. This produces faded blacks with enough midtone separation to keep the architecture readable. The modest +7 global contrast adds back a little definition without undoing the soft tonal compression.

Color

The custom white balance is mildly warm with a +10 magenta tint, helping the gray daylight feel less cold or green. Color is controlled mainly through HSL rather than global saturation. Blue saturation is reduced by 65, with green and yellow also strongly reduced, which turns the sky, water, and distant vegetation into quiet gray-cyan and beige tones. Aqua is shifted strongly in hue and given a small saturation increase, refining the restrained water color instead of making it broadly vivid. Red and orange saturation are increased, so people, signs, skin, and warmer architectural details remain visible as small accents against the muted environment. The individual red, green, and blue curves also introduce subtle tonal color variation: the lifted shadows lean slightly cool-magenta, while upper tones receive a delicate warm-magenta bias. This contributes to the film-like palette without conventional split toning or color grading.

Detail and atmosphere

Clarity, Texture, and Dehaze are all left at zero. That is important to the visual intent: misty distance and the soft transition between sky and sea are preserved rather than forced into hard local contrast. Standard sharpening is applied, but without masking or added texture, so edges receive basic definition while the scene remains gentle. The ISO 100 capture required no luminance noise reduction; only standard color-noise reduction is present.

Effects and optical correction

Grain is a major finishing element, set to Amount 40 with moderate size. It adds visible texture to the broad pale areas and reinforces the impression of a scanned or consumer-film photograph. No vignette was added, allowing the bright frame to remain open from edge to edge. The Sony FE 55mm lens profile is enabled for standard distortion and vignetting correction, but chromatic-aberration automation and manual defringing are not active.

Visual inference

Inference: the subdued blues, lifted black point, soft atmospheric rendering, and grain appear designed to evoke an overcast coastal snapshot on color film. The retained warm reds and oranges likely serve as visual anchors, helping the tiny figures and beachfront details stand out without breaking the image’s muted mood.

What mattered most

Strong highlight and white reduction protects the pale sky, surf, and buildings.
Opened shadows, raised blacks, and a lifted tone curve create the faded low-contrast foundation.
Heavy blue, green, and yellow desaturation produces the restrained coastal palette.
Warm red and orange accents keep small human and architectural details visible.
Zero Dehaze, Clarity, and Texture preserve the humid atmospheric softness.
Pronounced grain supplies the final analog-film character.