QE2, On the Passing of Her Majesty

A warm, positive film recipe using the Classic Chrome film simulation

On 8th September, I was walking in the New Forest when news started to come in, that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth was unwell and her family were gathering. Later in the day, her passing was announced. Having served my country for so long, her death has affected millions of people, and it has been a truly sad day.

The audience of this site is international and so rather than black banners or other symbols, I’m naming this new film recipe QE2 as a simple tribute. Like Her Majesty was, this recipe is full of warmth and positivity, and brings colour and brighness to a scene.

An English Rose, with the commemorative QE2 film recipe

QE2 Film Recipe

Simulation: Classic Chrome
Grain Effect: Weak, Small
Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
Colour Chrome Blue: Weak (IV) / Off (V)
White Balance: Shade
WB Shift: +1 Red, -4 Blue
Dynamic Range: DR400
Highlights: -0.5
Shadows: -1.5
Color: +3
Sharpness: -2
ISO Noise Reduction: -4
Clarity: 0
EV compensation: +1/3

Bright, warm colours with classic chrome. QE2 film recipe

Sunlight through oak leaves, with the QE2 film recipe

Woodland walking with the cheery colours of QE2 film recipe

Those cyan skies, with Classic Chrome and Color +3

Bring positive richness to your images with QE2 film recipe

Jetting off somewhere, with the QE2 film recipe

City street scene, captured with the QE2 film recipe

Winchester, historic and beautiful, using the QE2 film recipe

Pretty in pink, captured with the QE2 film recipe

Summer heather, using the QE2 film recipe

One of the pretty wild flowers of a British Summer. QE2 film recipe

Down by the water, using QE2 film recipe

Warm, colourful Classic Chrome … it’s the QE2 film recipe

Autumn is coming. Captured with the QE2 film recipe

A British icon of a different kind. QE2 film recipe

QE2 film recipe, capturing the blue skies beind this Spitfire

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4 responses to “QE2, On the Passing of Her Majesty”

September 9, 2022

Sandro

I greatly appreciate your thoughts for the Queen as much as I appreciate your recipes. I am Italian, my name is Sandro. I’m sorry for my english…

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1. September 9, 2022
  
  justingould
  
  Thank you, Sandro.
  
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September 10, 2022

TheCameraEatsFirst

I stopped following general news and current events since Jan 2021 but saw this yesterday (impossible to avoid, it’s absolutely everywhere, and she’s the world most famous woman after all). I gasped when I saw her last photo taken only 3 days earlier. HM seemed to have lost a lot of weight. Have been fighting back the tears ever since.

Her whole life in front of cameras, she was a photography enthusiast herself: https://i.imgur.com/VoCk019.jpg
And the future QC: https://i.imgur.com/wWkvUq8.jpg

(I felt the same about Diana. The same shock and grief.)

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1. September 10, 2022
  
  justingould
  
  It’s an unusual thing, not a surprise but a shock nonetheless. She has been a constant in our lives, and somehow separate from the rest of the population.
  
  It’s been nice to see here photography images, which have been shared quite a bit in the groups I read. I’m glad that it was one of her hobbies. Something we shared.
  
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