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

Checking out the view from up high. Childhood Vacation film recipe

The sea was clear with little fish, Childhood Vacation film recipe

You remember visiting when you were young. Childhood Vacation film recipe

The prints have faded over the years. Childhood Vacation film recipe

It’s a creamy washed out look … Childhood Vacation film recipe

Memories of a summer trip, with Childhood Vacation film recipe

Walks along the river, remembered with Childhood Vacation film recipe

Burned out and bleached, with Childhood Vacation film recipe

A dreamlike quality, when using Childhood Vacation film recipe

That boat trip on the lake, Childhood Vacation film recipe

Those were happy days, Childhood Vacation film recipe

We spent so much time in the water, Childhood Vacation film recipe

The trees were not like at home, Childhood Vacation film recipe

We stayed out until sundown, Childhood Vacation film recipe

The little pigs were funny to watch, Childhood Vacation film recipe

The sunset over the boatyard, using Childhood Vacation film recipe

Spring bluebells, styled by the Childhood Vacation film recipe

Thickety vegetation, captured with Childhood Vacation film recipe

Days were warm and long, Childhood Vacation film recipe

We found lizards basking in the sun, Childhood Vacation film recipe

And took photos of butterflies. Childhood Vacation film recipe

Nostalgic memories, captured with the Childhood Vacation film recipe

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🌊 Let’s get creative in this new round of The Film Recipes Challenge 🏄 The recipe is the burned and faded look, Childhood Vacation, which loves to be over exposed. Try some images and share a selection in the Film Recipes Facebook Group or the comments on the recipe page. Open to everyone, until end of 8th June. Tag #childhoodvacation ☀️