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.

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