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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/6.3

Shutter speed

1/200s

ISO

100

Metering mode

Center-weighted average

Exposure program

Manual

Exposure compensation

Flash

Off, Did not fire

Taken at

2020:11:15 12:27:00

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

6.3

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

2020:11:15 12:27:00

FileSource

Digital Camera

ModifyDate

2020:11:20 15:44:52

OffsetTime

+01:00

Saturation

Normal

Compression

JPEG (old-style)

ExifVersion

0231

FocalLength

55.0 mm

LightSource

Unknown

XResolution

240

YResolution

240

ExposureMode

Manual

ExposureTime

1/200

MeteringMode

Center-weighted average

WhiteBalance

Auto

ApertureValue

6.3

CustomRendered

Normal

ResolutionUnit

inches

ThumbnailImage

(Binary data 11701 bytes, use -b option to extract)

BrightnessValue

7.35703125

ExposureProgram

Manual

SensitivityType

Recommended Exposure Index

ThumbnailLength

11701

ThumbnailOffset

942

DateTimeOriginal

2020:11:15 12:27:00

DigitalZoomRatio

MaxApertureValue

1.8

SceneCaptureType

Standard

ShutterSpeedValue

1/200

ExposureCompensation

FocalPlaneXResolution

1675.257385

FocalPlaneYResolution

1675.257385

FocalLengthIn35mmFormat

55 mm

FocalPlaneResolutionUnit

RecommendedExposureIndex

100

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IPTC

DateCreated

2020:11:15

TimeCreated

12:27:00

CodedCharacterSet

UTF8

DigitalCreationDate

2020:11:15

DigitalCreationTime

12:27:00

ApplicationRecordVersion

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IPTCDigest

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XResolution

240

YResolution

240

DisplayedUnitsX

inches

DisplayedUnitsY

inches

PhotoshopThumbnail

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Profile	Huelight A7II Portrait V112
White Balance	Custom
Temperature	5950
Tint		+9

Tone
Exposure		+0.15
Contrast		0
Highlights		-86
Shadows		+34
Whites		+29
Blacks		+4

Presence
Texture		0
Clarity		0
Dehaze		0
Vibrance		0
Saturation		-3

Tone Curve

Tone Curve:

Region
Highlights		0
Lights		0
Darks		0
Shadows		0

Color Mixer / HSL

Hue
Red		+13
Orange		+3
Yellow		-48
Green		+33
Aqua		0
Blue		0
Purple		0
Magenta		0

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The edit creates a restrained, film-like autumn scene: dark, muted vegetation surrounds the brighter distant building, while the bench and figures remain understated in the foreground. Strong highlight recovery, opened shadows, a compressed tone curve, selective suppression of greens and yellows, and deliberate grain produce the subdued documentary character.

Composition and framing

A substantial crop removes material from every edge and concentrates attention on the visual line between the foreground bench and the distant building. The near-symmetrical placement of the building gives it prominence while the surrounding trees act as a dark natural frame. A very slight rotation was used for alignment. The enabled 55mm lens profile corrects optical distortion and lens shading without adding a creative vignette.

Light and tone

Exposure was raised only slightly, but the tonal range was reshaped aggressively: Highlights are reduced to -86, Shadows are lifted to +34, and Whites are raised to +29. This preserves the pale sky and white façade while recovering some information in the wooded foreground. The custom tone curve lifts the black endpoint and lowers the white endpoint, so neither end reaches a hard black or brilliant white. The result is a compressed, faded contrast response rather than a crisp digital one. Blacks at +4 further keep the darkest foliage from becoming completely blocked.

Color palette

A custom white balance of 5950K with +9 magenta tint gives the otherwise overcast scene a modest warmth and avoids a strongly green cast. The HSL work is the main source of the autumnal palette: green saturation is cut by 77 and green luminance by 48, making grass and foliage very dark and restrained; yellow saturation is cut by 49 and luminance by 19, with its hue shifted strongly toward orange. At the same time, orange and red saturation are increased slightly, allowing rust-colored leaves and reeds to survive against the muted vegetation. Blue is mildly desaturated and brightened, helping the pale sky remain quiet rather than vividly blue. The individual red, green, and blue tone curves introduce subtle channel separation; visually, this supports slightly cool, cyan-green dark tones against warmer brown foliage. The portrait-oriented Huelight camera profile likely also contributes a gentler color starting point.

Detail and texture

Moderate capture sharpening is applied with a 1.0 radius and relatively low detail emphasis, preserving structure without making the distant branches look excessively brittle. Color noise reduction is set to its standard moderate level, while luminance noise reduction is left off. Since the image was captured at ISO 100, heavy luminance cleanup was unnecessary and retaining the original fine detail was practical.

Film-like effects

Grain is deliberately added at Amount 30 and Size 30, with medium frequency/roughness. Because the ISO 100 capture would naturally be fairly clean, this is clearly a creative texture rather than noise correction. Combined with the lifted blacks, restrained saturation, and compressed white point, it gives the photograph a scanned-film or archival documentary feel. No clarity, texture, dehaze, or post-crop vignette was added, so the atmosphere comes from tonal and color shaping rather than strong microcontrast or artificial edge darkening.

What mattered most

The building is protected by strong highlight recovery and brighter whites, while lifted shadows retain subdued detail in the trees.
Heavy green and yellow suppression turns the landscape into dark olive, brown, and rust tones.
The custom curves soften both black and white endpoints, creating a faded, low-gloss tonal finish.
Added grain supplies intentional analog texture to an otherwise clean ISO 100 capture.
The crop strengthens the relationship between the bench, figures, and distant building.