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.
These recipes are drawn from both the site and the Film Recipes App, ordered first by how closely each recipe was designed to capture the frost & snow character — from direct interpretations through to inspired-by looks — and then by popularity within each group. App-only recipes are included and marked 🔒.
Frost, Ice & Snow Film Simulation Recipes
These 100 recipes are a selection from a much larger frost & snow collection. The full set — all 175 — is available in the Film Recipes App for iOS and Android.