Cherry Cola, Soda Pop Film Recipe

Stylish pinky bronze toned film simulation recipe for Fujifilm cameras

Here’s a tasty new style that brings a unique feel to your images. The Cherry Cola film recipe has a pink brown aesthetic that in some ways feels like an aged nostalgic look, but in others is a warm but unique look for characterful imaging. It’s for brave photographers looking to experiment, or to bring a strong look across a series of photos.

The base for this recipe is my ‘go to’ for unique styles, Eterna Bleach Bypass, which is pushed into new creative territory with unique color tone from Fluorescent 1 balance with a heart shift of +8 red and -5 blue.

There’s no escape for any colour or subject in scenes with this. They will all yield and get bathed in the pinky bronze tone. It’s a recipe to go large with and embrace the results.

This recipe works well on any camera that has the Bleach Bypass film sim, such as X-T4, X100VI or X-S20. If you want to explore a similar aesthetic, but don’t have Eterna Bleach Bypass, you might enjoy the Seventies Summer film recipe, or Sherbert Sunrise look, which both explore a pink toned style.

Here are my samples, taken with, or edited from RAWs on my X-S20 in the past few months.

Pinky bronze tones in the afternoon light. Bluebells with the Cherry Cola film recipe.

Cherry Cola Film Recipe

  • Simulation: Eterna Bleach Bypass
  • Grain Effect: Weak, Small
  • Colour Chrome Effect: Off
  • Colour Chrome Blue: Weak (IV) / Off (V)
  • White Balance: Fluorescent 1
  • WB Shift: +8 Red, -5 Blue
  • Dynamic Range: DR400
  • Highlights: -1.0
  • Shadows: -1.0
  • Color: -1
  • Sharpness: -4
  • ISO Noise Reduction: -4
  • Clarity: -4
  • EV compensation: -1/3
Summer grasses with Cherry Cola. A fun subject in the golden hour light.
Walking the dog along the shore. Sunset by the sea, with Cherry Cola film recipe
A foggy dawn, toned for a new look with Cherry Cola film recipe
A musty sunrise, captured earlier this Springtime, with the Cherry Cola film recipe
Wheatfield symmetry, using the Cherry Cola film recipe
The morning sun highlights the wheat leaves. Cherry Cola film recipe
An Oyster, washed up onto the beach. Colour by Fujifilm and the Cherry Cola film recipe
There’s so much to find along a beach at low tide. Cherry Cola film recipe
Sunny day wandering in the New Forest, with the Cherry Cola film recipe
At the marina in the afternoon, with Cherry Cola film recipe
Frosted leaf, captured with the Cherry Cola film recipe
Using a macro extension tube to get in to the details. Cherry Cola film recipe
You can see new details in spring blossom. Cherry Cola film recipe
Floral details captured with the Cherry Cola film recipe
Looking across the bay, using the Cherry Cola film recipe

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