Film recipes for frosty mornings, icy landscapes and snowy conditions
There’s a particular quality to light on a frosty or snowy day — bright and flat at the same time, with a coolness to the whites and a crispness to the shadows. These recipes have been chosen for how well they handle those conditions, generally sitting towards the cooler end of the white balance range without pushing too far into blue.
Winter subjects — frozen puddles, frost on leaves, snow-covered paths — reward a recipe that holds the white detail rather than blowing it out, which is a characteristic many of these share. For more ideas, take a look at the related section for Winter Film Recipes.
A shortlist of 40 frost, ice and snow recipes drawn from both the site and the Film Recipes App. Ranking combines user favouriting data from over 22,000 logged favourites in the app with a scoring for how closely each recipe was designed for cold-weather conditions. App-only recipes are labelled.
Frost, Ice & Snow Film Simulation Recipes
These are the highest-rated recipes from the site and app combined. There are a further 95 recipes in this category exclusively in the Film Recipes App — browse them alongside the full library of 800+ recipes on iOS and Android.