123-123, Year End Story Mode

Winter themed Classic Negative film simulation recipe with pale, nostalgic colors

Here’s a special film recipe look for the year end. It uses Classic Negative with a heavy adjustment for winter friendly tones and a washed out, nostalgic look.

It’s named after the date, 12.31.23 representing the last day of 2023 in US date format. The 123-123 sequence also appears in the settings of this recipe, lifting shadows and fading the colour for a look that suits the subjects you might come upon during winter photo walks.

Ideal conditions for this recipe include all the types of weather you find in winter; frost, snow, rain, mist, low sun and drizzly gloom. With 123-123 film recipe, there’s no need to stay indoors. Wrap up warm, go out with your camera and capture your own year end story.

There’s a winter season feel to images taken with the 123-123 film recipe

123-123 Film Recipe

  • Simulation: Classic Negative
  • Grain Effect: Off
  • Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
  • Colour Chrome Blue: Weak (IV) / Off (V)
  • White Balance: Underwater
  • WB Shift: +1 Red, -2 Blue
  • Dynamic Range: DR400
  • Highlights: +1.0
  • Shadows: -2.0
  • Color: -3
  • Sharpness: +1
  • ISO Noise Reduction: -2
  • Clarity: -3 (option 0 and try a mist/glimmer filter)
  • EV compensation: 0
Bring on the watery winter sunlight, with 123-123 film recipe
Gorse bushes keep flowering all year around. 123-123 film recipe
Gorse spikes and yellow flowers, captured with the 123-123 film recipe
Winter sunsets over the wet sands at low tide. 123-123 film recipe
Winter tones at year end, using the 123-123 film recipe
Scenes from a German Christmas market, with 123-123 film recipe
A winter palette, on the canalside. 123-123 film recipe
A film recipe for frosty mornings, 123-123 film recipe loves the cold
The tip of a pine branch, using 123-123 film recipe
Pine needles with morning moisture, and the 123-123 film recipe
Don’t let wet weather stop you … 123-123 film recipe loves cloud and rain
Quite a collection .. captured with 123-123 film recipe
Pine cone details, with pale tones from the 123-123 film recipe
A frosty winter sunrise is ideal light for the 123-123 film recipe
Let’s go walking in the fog … 123-123 film recipe
A copse shrouded in mist, using the 123-123 film recipe

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