Reala Ace film simulation recipe. Designed for trips, ready for anything
The Summer Olympics are upon us, and a trip to watch the tennis event has got me inspired to prepare film recipes for capturing scenes at the event. I’ve got a number of these in the works, including the first to be added to this site, Paris 24, based on Classic Negative.
For this look, I wanted to do two things; make a great looking film recipe with the Reala Ace film simulation, and also create one that I could use just about everywhere under whatever weather and lighting situation that might arise. Reala Ace is a good choice for this because, like Provia, is has a good all round performance without a strong style of its own.
The adjustments from standard Reala Ace include a softening of the tone curve to be kinder to shadow detail and strong highlights, a DR400 setting to futher enhance this tonal flexibility, and a reduction in saturation to give a more natural overall feel. The white balance is warmed, but still retains a natural colour look.
I’ve added plenty of samples below to show the versatility of this recipe, including sunny and grey days. I will add further images from my trip to the Olympic Games in the coming weeks.
Olympic Ace Film Recipe
- Simulation: Reala Ace (try with Pro Neg Hi on older cameras)
- Grain Effect: Off
- Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
- Colour Chrome Blue: Weak
- White Balance: Daylight
- WB Shift: +2 Red, -4 Blue
- Dynamic Range: DR400
- Highlights: -1.0
- Shadows: -1.0
- Color: -1
- Sharpness: -1
- ISO Noise Reduction: -4
- Clarity: 0
- EV compensation: 0
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