Cinematic classic chrome film recipe with rich color and contrast
Sometimes, when developing film recipes, the inspiration comes in the form of a single image. This was one of those occasions, when this fifties style image was posted in the Facebook group as an interesting look.
I kept returning to it, trying to find a recipe that came close to this interesting retro style.
The look sits somewhere between Classic Chrome and Classic Negative, and having explored both, I settled on Classic Chrome as the base simulation. To this, I added rich colour and tested various colour balances, until I settled on the below combination.
I didn’t have any 50’s interiors to work with, so I tried it with a by usual range of natural and landscape scenes. Whether it matches the source image, I don’t know, but I love how it has come out.
Cineplus Film Recipe
- Simulation: Classic Chrome
- Grain Effect: Off
- Colour Chrome Effect: Strong
- Colour Chrome Blue: Strong (Low on X Trans V)
- White Balance: 5800K
- WB Shift: +1 Red, +2 Blue
- Dynamic Range: DR400
- Highlights: -1.0
- Shadows: +1.0
- Color: +4
- Sharpness: -2
- ISO Noise Reduction: -4
- Clarity: 0
- EV compensation: +2/3
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