Acros film simulation recipe with a nostalgic pale tone for golden hour
As a photographer that enjoys the atmosphere of an image as much as the composition, I enjoy film recipes that enhance or set a mood. In this toned mono film recipe, I wanted to captured something beyond the brown of a tyipcal sepia look, and get closer to the soft look of a hazy winter morning.
I chose this pale golden look, rather than a more saturated image because I found it a lot less distracting, and having tried a variety of hues, I also felt that it found a happy spot between too sickly, and too subtle that it might not feel intentional.
With its spirit in the softness of golden hour, I find that this recipe works best with soft light and silhouettes. There’s a deep shadow tone, which will deliver good results if you also capture some brightness in the scene as well. A more flat scene may end up looking drab, so for this one, the lower the angle of the sun, the better.
A bonus creative exercise you can play with, is to pair some images taken with Gilt Trip with a recipe with a complimentary colour. I’ve added a selection at the bottom of the page, showing how this golden look can work well alongside a blue toned colour recipe for contrast.
Gilt Trip Film Recipe
- Simulation: Acros
- Grain Effect: Weak, Large
- Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
- Colour Chrome Blue: Weak
- White Balance: Auto
- WB Shift: 0 Red, 0 Blue
- Dynamic Range: DR200
- Highlights: -1.0
- Shadows: +3.0
- Mono Shift: WC +12, MG +4
- Sharpness: -4
- ISO Noise Reduction: -4
- Clarity: -4
- EV compensation: 0
Working with colour contrast
I accidentally mixed up the sample images of two of my new film recipes, and seeing the images together added a new dimension. These blue tone shots are samples for the recent recipe Blue Monday, added to the site in January.
Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras 