Milestone, a Classic Chrome for 10,000

A Classic Chrome film silmulation recipe with a 10,000K colour temperature base

It doesn’t seem long ago that I was feeling happy that 100 people had joined the Film Recipes Facebook Group and wondering if that was about as far as it would go. Well, we just passed through 10,000 members, and it’s still growing.

I started the group as a way to share the new film recipes that I added to this site, and as a place for film recipe fans to come together and ask questions and show their sample images. Bringing people together, the group is also the main place that people join in the Film Recipes challenge, that runs every couple of weeks. Details for this are in the panel below.

To see more photos taken with film recipes, and to share your photos with others, why not join our Film Recipes Facebook Group 📷

For this recipe, I thought it would be a fun challenge to see if I could make an everyday film recipe from the extreme 10,000K color temperature at the top of the scale in my camera. This is a very warm setting, and is almost tangerine orange without some taming, so it’s paired with heavy a correctional shift that brings it back to something more normal.

The result is a Classic Chrome with a warm toned mellow look, that is in part nostalgic and part film like. I think the look sits somewhere on the Kodak spectrum, sitting between Kodachrome and Kodak Portra. I’m really pleased with how it came out and happy to share it as a little celebration recipe as we pass the milestone of 10k members.

It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day. Here’s to you with the Milestone film recipe

Milestone Film Recipe

  • Simulation: Classic Chrome
  • Grain Effect: Off
  • Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
  • Colour Chrome Blue: Off
  • White Balance: 10000K
  • WB Shift: -5 Red, +8 Blue
  • Dynamic Range: DR100
  • Highlights: +1.0
  • Shadows: -1.0
  • Color: -2
  • Sharpness: 0
  • ISO Noise Reduction: -4
  • Clarity: +2
  • EV compensation: +1/3
A golden sunrise over the misty waters, with Milestone film recipe
Orange boats moored on the shoreline, using Milestone film recipe
I love the weeds at the edge of fields and moss on old walls. Milestone recipe
Jetting off somewhere warmer, with 70-300mm and Milestone film recipe
That day I chased the sunset along the city river. Milestone film recipe
A robin perched on a branch, captured with the Milestone film recipe
I think a nest is being prepared in this convenient hole. Milestone recipe
A New Forest pony in, you guessed it, the New Forest. Milestone film recipe
Classic Chrome blues in the sky, with Milestone film recipe
There’s a Kodachrome feel to the Milestone film recipe
Milestone film recipe is a good choice for the golden hour
Paddleboarding at sunset, captured with the Milestone film recipe
Sanderlings feeding along the water line, using Milestone film recipe
The woolly ladies in the farm yard, captured with Milestone film recipe
Such interesting faces, taken with Milestone film recipe
A frosty morning walk, captured with Milestone film recipe
I love a fern, especially a frosty fern. Milestone film recipe
At the end of the day, captured with Milestone film recipe
Nautical bits and bob at sunset, with the Milestone film recipe

More Film Recipes with Milestone Numbers

Whilst we are marking a milestone of 10,000 Facebook Group members, here are some of the recipes published at other milestone points in the life of this site.

To see more photos taken with film recipes, and to share your photos with others, why not join our Film Recipes Facebook Group 📷

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