Astia film simulation recipe with bold colours and punchy contrast
A lot of my film recipes are based around a muted tones look, or nostalgic colour shifts. Hiking Buddy film recipe is something altogether different. It’s full of bold colour and punchy contrast.
The base for the recipe is Astia, a film simulation with playful colour, especially the reds and blues. That’s true of this recipe too, where any blues or reds will jump out of your photos. That’s not to say that other colours are muted, because in this recipe, all colours are full of life.
I’ve tested this recipe on a number of photo walks in the forest and by the sea. It seems very happy in bright conditions, but also cloudy and overcast ones. I tried it early and late in the day as well, and thanks to the Astia simulation, it brought blue hour to life with a boost to the natural blue colour.
Hiking Buddy Film Recipe
- Simulation: Astia/Soft
- Grain Effect: Weak, Small
- Colour Chrome Effect: Strong
- Colour Chrome Blue: Weak
- White Balance: 5500K
- WB Shift: -2 Red, 0 Blue
- Dynamic Range: DR400
- Highlights: -0.5
- Shadows: -1.5
- Color: +1
- Sharpness: 0
- ISO Noise Reduction: -4
- Clarity: +2
- EV compensation: +1/3
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