Fujifilm Film Simulation Recipe for Golden Hour using the Astia Film Simulation
If the sun is shining around sunset and sunrise, I love nothing more that to take a little photo walk and shoot some scenes in the golden hour light. Not only in the light softer at this time, but everything is bathed in the beautiful tones of the low sun.
I’ve made quite a number of recipes that exploit these conditions, and a selection is towards the bottom of this page. But, just like with other treats, there’s always room for one more, so here is Eldorado, with a strong yellow tone in golden hour.
The look is based on the Astia film simulation, and maintains a strong golden look even with colour reduced to -3. Part of the colourful impact comes from other settings, like a +1 for shadows and +2/3 exposure suggestion, but mainly from the strong combination of the Underwater white balance and a rich +6, -7 colour shift.
The colour tone also works well to enhance the autumn season as the leaves begin to turn. Here, cloudy conditions work just as well and sunny ones, as you can see further down in the image samples.
Eldorado Film Recipe
- Simulation: Astia/Soft
- Grain Effect: Off
- Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
- Colour Chrome Blue: Weak
- White Balance: Underwater
- WB Shift: +6 Red, -7 Blue
- Dynamic Range: DR200
- Highlights: -0.5 (use 0 if your camera doesn’t do 0.5)
- Shadows: +1.0
- Color: -3
- Sharpness: -2
- ISO Noise Reduction: -4
- Clarity: -3
- EV compensation: +2/3 recommended
Golden Hour Recipes
Whilst almost any film recipe will look lovely in the magic hour arouns sunrise and sunset, there are some that I designed specifically for shooting at this time. If you like the look of Eldorado, you might also enjoy these …
Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras 