Punchy colours and strong grain in this classic negative film recipe
Sometimes, you want your photos to have impact, with punchy colours, deep shadows and character from grain. This recipe has been designed around those three features, and with such a big personality, is called Grizzly Bear.
The base film simulation is Classic Negative, with a strong grain and a positve clarity setting. This adds to the dramatic feel of the images, but does mean it may be a little slower to render and save the images. It’s all part of the look however, so that when you want a punchy slide-like result, you can ‘bring out the bear’!
Grizzly Bear Film Recipe
- Simulation: Classic Negative
- Grain Effect: Strong, Large
- Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
- Colour Chrome Blue: Weak
- White Balance: Auto
- WB Shift: +1 Red, -3 Blue
- Dynamic Range: DR400
- Highlights: +0.5 (use 1 if your camera doesn’t support 0.5)
- Shadows: -1.5 (use -1 if your camera doesn’t support -1.5)
- Color: +2
- Sharpness: -2
- ISO Noise Reduction: -4
- Clarity: +4
- EV compensation: 0
Punchy Colour Film Recipes
If there is a style that my site is short on, it’s bold colour film recipes. My takes is for more muted looks, with fade, retro and aged looks a lot more common. So here then are a few more bold color recipes from other sites.
- Kodak Ektar 100 – Astia based film look-a-like, from Piotr Skrzypek
- Agfa Ultra 100 – If vivid is what you seek, this is it, by Piotr Skrzypek
- Fujifilm Reala 100 – Fuji style, great with reds, also by Piotr Skrzypek
- Leica Like v2 – Provia with power from Mark G Adams
- Provia Punch – Another Provia look from Mark, with punchy colour
- Realistic Pro – Pro Neg Hi with boosted colour, from Mark G Adams
- Smooth Rubber – Rich Classic Negative from David Davis
- The Rockwell – Ultra colour for landscapes, on Fuji X Weekly
Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras 