Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras

Nostalgic, soft tone and vintage film recipes using Fujifilm film simulations

Childhood Vacation, Memories as Faded Prints

Classic Negative film simulation recipe with a burned out desaturated look

It’s obvious to anyone reading this site that I love nostalgic looks and especially filmic looks that resemble aged prints, found many years after they were developed. These styles can evoke more feeling than clean modern looks, and are a fun way to shoot, especially for social media galleries.

For this nostalgic film recipe, I wanted to explore the style of childhood holiday snaps, taken perhaps on a sunny beach, but where the details have bleached away and the prints are fading and losing their colour.

This fading is acheived through overexposure and a mix of other settings, and is based on the Classic Negative simulation, for a print like look. One note is that I works best with sunny weather and bright light.

Whilst it’s a specialist style, it’s so much fun to use that it’s quickly become one of my favourite creations. It really is like shooting old prints in the style of those you rediscover after being hidden and forgotten. I’m really happy with the result, capturing a mood like old vacation prints, and especially the burned out bleachy look. I hope you’ll have some fun with it too.

That trip we took where the sea was warm, Childhood Vacation film recipe

Childhood Vacation Film Recipe

Simulation: Classic Negative
Grain Effect: Strong, Large
Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
Colour Chrome Blue: Off
White Balance: Shade
WB Shift: +3 Red, 0 Blue
Dynamic Range: DR100
Highlights: +2.0
Shadows: -1.0
Color: -4
Sharpness: -2
ISO Noise Reduction: -4
Clarity: -3
EV compensation: +1 (keep going to get the burned look)

Mallorca with the nostalgic look of Childhood Vacation film recipe

This film recipe was the focus of our Film Recipe Challenge in June 2023, and you can view the wonderful images shared from all around the world in the Childhood Vacation photo gallery.