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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/1.8

Shutter speed

1/800s

ISO

200

Metering mode

Multi-segment

Exposure program

Aperture-priority AE

Exposure compensation

Flash

Off, Did not fire

Taken at

2018:07:12 16:50:36

Software

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 10.0 (Macintosh)

no copyright note in EXIF

GPS Location

—

GPS Altitude

—

GPS Date & time

—

Raw EXIF data

ISO

200

Make

SONY

Flash

Off, Did not fire

Model

ILCE-7M2

FNumber

1.8

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

2018:07:12 16:50:36

FileSource

Digital Camera

ModifyDate

2020:11:21 18:39:25

OffsetTime

+01:00

Saturation

Normal

Compression

JPEG (old-style)

ExifVersion

0231

FocalLength

55.0 mm

LightSource

Unknown

XResolution

240

YResolution

240

ExposureMode

Auto

ExposureTime

1/800

MeteringMode

Multi-segment

WhiteBalance

Auto

ApertureValue

1.8

CustomRendered

Normal

ResolutionUnit

inches

ThumbnailImage

(Binary data 9833 bytes, use -b option to extract)

BrightnessValue

5.321875

ExposureProgram

Aperture-priority AE

SensitivityType

Recommended Exposure Index

ThumbnailLength

9833

ThumbnailOffset

942

DateTimeOriginal

2018:07:12 16:50:36

DigitalZoomRatio

MaxApertureValue

1.8

SceneCaptureType

Standard

ShutterSpeedValue

1/800

ExposureCompensation

FocalPlaneXResolution

1675.257385

FocalPlaneYResolution

1675.257385

FocalLengthIn35mmFormat

55 mm

FocalPlaneResolutionUnit

RecommendedExposureIndex

200

Raw XMP data

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IPTC

DateCreated

2018:07:12

TimeCreated

16:50:36

CodedCharacterSet

UTF8

DigitalCreationDate

2018:07:12

DigitalCreationTime

16:50:36

ApplicationRecordVersion

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IPTCDigest

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XResolution

240

YResolution

240

DisplayedUnitsX

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DisplayedUnitsY

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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	4550
Tint		+6

Tone
Exposure		-0.15
Contrast		0
Highlights		-65
Shadows		+39
Whites		-24
Blacks		+16

Presence
Texture		0
Clarity		+20
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 dark, restrained woodland look with muted, deep greens and controlled highlights. Tonal recovery preserves detail in the white mug while a lifted black point and opened shadows keep the dark AeroPress readable. Strong selective color desaturation prevents the moss and foliage from overpowering the subject, while moderate clarity gives the central objects extra definition against the naturally blurred surroundings.

Overall look

The Adobe Color look is combined with a slightly reduced exposure and a custom tone curve for a moody, low-key result. The photograph remains color rather than monochrome, but most foliage-related colors have been heavily subdued. The shallow depth of field is primarily capture-related: the 55mm lens at f/1.8 produces the soft foreground and background, allowing the AeroPress and mug to stand out without masking or artificial blur.

Light and tone

Exposure is lowered slightly by 0.15 EV. Highlights are reduced strongly to -65 and whites to -24, protecting the mug and the small bright background areas from becoming harsh. Shadows are raised to +39 and blacks to +16, recovering information in the nearly black AeroPress. The custom tone curve lifts the absolute black point while keeping much of the lower midtone range dark, producing soft, slightly matte deepest shadows without making the image look flat. Individual red, green, and blue curves add gentle contrast through the midtones and upper tones while introducing only subtle color separation.

Color

A custom white balance of 4550K with a small magenta tint keeps the shaded woodland scene relatively cool and avoids an overly yellow-green cast. The main styling comes from HSL: green saturation is reduced by 68 and green luminance by 47, making the moss rich and dark rather than vivid. Yellow is shifted strongly in hue, desaturated, and darkened; aqua and blue are also heavily desaturated. Orange is shifted to its maximum hue value, desaturated, and darkened, though its visible influence depends on how much orange existed in the source. Together these changes compress the background into subdued forest tones while preserving enough color variation to feel natural rather than grayscale.

Subject definition and detail

Clarity at +20 increases midtone edge contrast, helping the AeroPress lettering, ridges, and mug rim appear crisp against the soft foliage. Standard sharpening is applied at amount 40 with a 1.0 radius and modest detail recovery. No sharpening mask is used, so sharpening can affect the foliage and bokeh as well as the subject, although the restrained settings limit the effect.

Noise and optics

Color noise reduction is set to 25, while luminance noise reduction is absent. That balance is appropriate to the clean ISO 200 capture: it suppresses minor chroma speckling without smoothing away texture. The Adobe lens profile for the Sony FE 55mm F1.8 ZA is enabled at full distortion and vignetting correction strength. There is no added post-crop vignette, grain, dehaze, or crop, so the dark framing and soft peripheral falloff visible in the photograph are not created by those effects.

What mattered most

Strong highlight and white recovery controls the mug while lifted shadows reveal the dark AeroPress.
A lifted black point paired with dark lower midtones creates a soft but moody tonal foundation.
Heavy desaturation and darkening of greens and yellows produce the restrained woodland palette.
Moderate clarity concentrates visual definition on the in-focus subject.
The pronounced background blur comes from the f/1.8 capture, not a Lightroom blur effect.