Glacier Blue, Icy Azure Blue Tones

Bold blue tone film recipe using Classic Negative and strong color chrome effects

Here’s a creative recipe with a look to maximise the blue tones in your images. It’s a film recipe that works well in winter, but just as well for big blue skies and ocean blues in summer too. I group it with my other extreme film recipe styles, because of the bold effect it generates.

To generate the bold blue look, this recipe uses Classic Negative as the base simulation, and enhaces that further with strong color chrome effects and deep shadows. Saturation is actually minimised in this recipe, but the result is still that of a deep bold glacier blue.

A big blue sky over the bay, captured with Glacier Blue film recipe

Glacier Blue Film Recipe

  • Simulation: Classic Negative
  • Grain Effect: Off
  • Colour Chrome Effect: Strong
  • Colour Chrome Blue: Strong (IV) / Weak (V)
  • White Balance: Daylight
  • WB Shift: -4 Red, +1 Blue
  • Dynamic Range: DR200
  • Highlights: -1.0
  • Shadows: +2.0
  • Color: -4
  • Sharpness: 0
  • ISO Noise Reduction: -4
  • Clarity: 0
  • EV compensation: +2/3

For a similar look, also consider Oceanic 815, Diamond White or Vinterkrom

Strong contrast and deep blue tones, with the Glacier Blue film recipe
Bring out a blue tone in frosty and icy scenes, with Glacier Blue
Glacier Blue film recipe works well for nautical images
Frost coated fern on a winter morning, using Glacier Blue film recipe
A film recipe for the changing seasons, Glacier Blue film recipe
A misty fog is hanging in the hills, Glacier Blue film recipe
Spring greens are accentuated with the Glacier Blue film recipe
Winter snows with a blue tone, Glacier Blue film recipe
Fluffy snow with Glacier Blue
Drive slowly, Glacier Blue recipe
A winter woodland in winter, with the Glacier Blue film recipe
A cooler tone to golden hour, with the Glacier Blue film recipe
The leaf I found, trapped in a web, Glacier Blue film recipe
A web that’s losing a battle with winter, Glacier Blue film recipe
Late autumn thicket, captured with Glacier Blue film recipe
The last of the seasonal leaves, on a winter morning with Glacier Blue
The moody tones of Classic Negative and Glacier Blue film recipe
A winter sunset over the ocean, using Glacier Blue film recipe
The tide is coming in, with the Glacier Blue film recipe
Summer in the hedgerow, Glacier Blue film recipe
A coastal view in blue, with Glacier Blue film recipe

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