A Skyrim inspired film simulation recipe using Pro Neg Std as a base
Sometimes when inspiration strikes me, I start work on a film recipe with a particular result in mind. This was one of those occasions.
I was looking through my old PS4 games, and had a nostalgic wander around the forests and valleys of Skyrim. There’s a specific tone to the imagery and graphics, and as a long time fan, I started to think about recreating it as a film recipe.
In the game, (here’s a clip if you’ve never seen it), there is a mix of forest, tundra and mountains with much of the area covered in snow.
For my recipe, I found that Pro Neg Standard was the closest match to the tone of the game graphics, but needed a little warming and shadow adjustment. Obviously, this is somethng of a novelty idea, but I found that the end result was really well suited to photography of natural scenes, and this included wintry images like the frosted ferns you see below the recipe info.
Jorrvaskr Film Recipe
- Simulation: PRO Neg. Std
- Grain Effect: Weak, Small
- Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
- Colour Chrome Blue: Weak
- White Balance: Daylight
- WB Shift: +3 Red, -4 Blue
- Dynamic Range: DR-Auto
- Highlights: -1.0
- Shadows: +2.0
- Color: -3
- Sharpness: -1
- ISO Noise Reduction: -4
- Clarity: 0
- EV compensation: +2/3
Info: Jorrvaskr is a location in the Bethesda game, Skyrim. It is the home of the Companions, a Nordic warrior brother/sisterhood with a dark secret.
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