Summer vibes film recipe with a warm and cosy feel
Summer days can spark creativity, and at the least, get you out and about with your camera in the sunny weather. This is a film recipe for these warm days, with a cosy look that is dreamy and soft and set to make the most of golden sunny light.
There are already several takes on this concept that are available on this and other sites. You may already know of Vibrant Arizona and Bright Summer from Fuji X Weekly, or perhaps Classic Cuban Negative by Osan Bilgi. On this site, Summer Story and Kodak Portra 66 are also good choices.
But, as we all know, there are a huge range of styles possible with our excellent Fujifilm cameras, so there’s always room for one more. So here we have another contender. Daydream Believer looks to capture the summer vibe with hazy softness from -4 clarity and sunny colour from (ironically perhaps) the Shady colour balance.
Note that if the -4 clarity makes you uncomfortable (as I know it can for some photographers), then this recipe will also be just as happy with a mist filter to give a similar dreamy feel.
Daydream Believer Film Recipe
- Simulation: Eterna/Cinema
- Grain Effect: Off
- Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
- Colour Chrome Blue: Weak (IV) / Off (V)
- White Balance: Shade
- WB Shift: +2 Red, -2 Blue
- Dynamic Range: DR400
- Highlights: -1.0
- Shadows: -1.0
- Color: +4
- Sharpness: -2
- ISO Noise Reduction: -4
- Clarity: -4 (or mist filter)
- EV compensation: +1/3
Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras 