Classic chrome film simulation recipe for forest photography
Shinrin yoku, or forest bathing, is a mindful wellness exercise that first became popular in Japan, and then around the world. You embrace the calmness of nature and enjoy a relaxing time being in a forest or amongst nature, taking time to observe and enjoy what you see. If you haven’t heard about it, here’s a quick guide to forest bathing.
Extending your shinrin yoku experience with photography is a wonderful way to keep a record of what you see and can enhance the mindfulness and observation elements of forest bathing. As a partner to this, I’ve developed a forest friendly film recipe that works well in a wide range of wooded environments.
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Shinrin Yoku Film Recipe: Sample Photos
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Seasonal film recipe with pumpkin orange colour and a mellow autumn tone
Here’s a fun recipe to play with in the Autumn, Fall and Hallowe’en season. It has a pumpkin orange colour balance, which makes is a happy partner to seasonal photos of leaves, jack o’lanterns and warm and cosy scenes. It also creates a peachy pumpkin sunset or sunrise, and adds a gorgeous warmth to sunflares and sun haze if shooting in the golden hour is your thing.
In addition to the pumpkin spice colour tones, this recipe includes tamed highlights and a softness from negative clarity and negative sharpening. This all helps give a nostalgic and slightly hazy tone to images where you shoot into the sunlight, or with it just out of shot. Overall the feel is mellow, warm and cosy with a seasonal orange cast.
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Pumpkin Patch Film Recipe: Sample Photos
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Eterna film simulation recipe to mimic the look of Kodak Aerocolor 125
One of my first recipes based on photo samples from real film was the aged look of expired Kodak Aerocolor. I called it Aerocolor Lomo, and although I love the green tones it produces, it’s something of a specialist recipe.
Revisiting the little known Kodak Aerocolor samples again, I was able to find a handful from non-expired stock that helped me shape this recipe. The most important step with this exercise is choosing the base simulation, and for Aerocolor, I found that Eterna gave the best match.
Other settings include deeper shadows, a small lift to color and a fixed point white balance for a warm, but still natural look. Whilst there is no clarity in use, Chrome Blue is set, so for older cameras, that would need to be skipped.
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Kodak Aerocolor Film Recipe: Sample Photos
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Punchy colours and strong grain in this classic negative film recipe
Sometimes, you want your photos to have impact, with punchy colours, deep shadows and character from grain. This recipe has been designed around those three features, and with such a big personality, is called Grizzly Bear.
The base film simulation is Classic Negative, with a strong grain and a positve clarity setting. This adds to the dramatic feel of the images, but does mean it may be a little slower to render and save the images. It’s all part of the look however, so that when you want a punchy slide-like result, you can ‘bring out the bear’!
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Classic chrome with boosted color for a rich autumnal look on X-Trans IV
The Classic Chrome film simulation is an excellent base for images featuring cream, brown or blue tones. Photos are muted and stylish with default settings and, with a boost to color and warmth, can add richness to the colour for a striking result.
These tones make this recipe particularly suited to Autumn / Fall, working with any golden tones, like the turning leaves. Orange and brown leaves take on a ruby tone, with a red richness like a vibrant rusting in images.
In addition to the warm colour tone and the boosted saturation, a weak grain and positive sharpening add a gentle grittiness to the result. I enjoy how this looks in images, but as with all of my recipes, these are recommendations, and if you prefer to shoot without clarity or grain, that’s ok 🙂
And the name? Ruby Tuesday reflects the tone of course, and is a nod to the Rolling Stones hit of 1967 as well.
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Ruby Tuesday Film Recipe: Sample Photos
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Classic Chrome film simulation recipe for deep and mellow woodland moods
Autumn is known as the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness (John Keats), and this is a film recipe that captures that aesthetic. Images are deep toned with a mellow colour palette that’s perfect for capturing moody woodland details.
The base film simulation is Classic Chrome, but the combination of chrome effects, strong white balance shift and a +1.5 shadow setting, give it a look all it’s own. For extra deepness (depth?), you can underexpose as well.
If you use this on a sunny day, you may get best results with that bit of underexposure. On dull or rainy days, it should deliver reliably moody images as exposed. All in all, it’s just right for Autumn when the mist and murk become more common, and through the Winter months or when weather is gloomy.
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Deep Forest Film Recipe: Sample Photos
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Classic Chrome film recipe for Autumn with pale tones and bright highlights
Marcel Fraij is a talented photograper, educator and film recipe creator from the Netherlands. He’s a regular contributor in our Film Recipes Facebook Group and publishes a number of excellent recipe on his Film Recipes page.
We were chatting recently about an autumnal recipe he had created, and I’m so pleased to be able to share it here as a guest recipe. Marcel explained that the photo series is from October ’21, taken with X-E4 and a Fujinon 50mm f2 with a close up lens from Olympus. He adds, “the close up lens is old and a has some scratches, maybe that provides the dreamy look.”
There’s a beautiful muted tone to this, with bright highlights for a sophisticated soft look. It’s perfect for subtle photography in the Autumn season, but will no doubt be a favourite in other seasons too!
Photo credits: Marcel Fraij
Soft golden tones for the October Gold film recipe, by Marcel Fraij
October Gold Film Recipe
Simulation: Classic Chrome
Grain Effect: Off
Colour Chrome Effect: Strong
Colour Chrome Blue: Weak (IV) / Off (V)
White Balance: 5200K
WB Shift: +1 Red, -5 Blue
Dynamic Range: DR200
Highlights: -1.0
Shadows: +2.0
Color: -2
Sharpness: +1
ISO Noise Reduction: -4
Clarity: 0
EV compensation: 1
Delicate softness, captured with the October Gold film recipeSoft depth of field, using the October Gold film recipe
Creative captures from ground level, with the October Gold film recipePerfect for fall color, the October Gold film recipe
Soft tones for Autumn, taken by Marcel with October Gold film recipeWoodland details, with the mellow look of October Gold recipeEmbrace a new subtle style with October Gold film recipe
October Goldon a Dewy Morning
We’re back to my photography for this section. No more fungi, I’m sorry.
The ferns show the first signs of Autumn, October Gold film recipeThe leaves are beginning to turn, captured with October GoldThe summer heather is fading now, using October Gold film recipeA dewy morning shows up the spider webs, October Gold film recipeHanging by a thread … taken with October Gold film recipeA marvel of nature, captured with October Gold film recipeSoaked in the morning dew, captured by October Gold film recipeRuby tone fern fronds, with October Gold film recipe
October Gold in Midday Sun
With a fixed colour temperature of 5200K, this recipe doesn’t adapt to the changing light throughout the day, and so I took a short test drive in bright middle of the day conditions to check how it performed. Close up shots very much fell within the aesthetic, but a general landscape view of trees and sky, whilst beautiful, was certainly not ‘gold’. See what you think …
Garden seed heads, captured with October GoldBright sunshine on the succulent, with October GoldMiddle of the day treeline, not so ‘gold’ with October Gold
Marcel’s other recipes
At the time of writing, Marcel has 9 other film recipes for you to enjoy. Each one is a wonderful example of what Fujifilm film simulations can do in the hands of a talented photograper. Take a look, but more importantly, load up October Gold into your camera to shoot the mellow scenes of Autumn ASAP.
Classic chrome film simulation recipe with soft golden tones
Some film recipes bring a strongly uniform look across a set of images, helping a series of photos work together. Muted Gold is such a recipe with a specific look from a strong colour shift paired with muted saturation and softened shadows.
The colour balance is very warm, but particularly brings a lot of mellow character out in the greens of a scene. This pale and creamy green is warm and nostalgic, giving a ‘last days of summer’ feel to photos. As the seasons change around us, this recipe should be a good choice for autumn photography too.
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Muted Gold Film Recipe: Sample Photos
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A versatile film recipe for Kodak Ultramax using the Astia film simulation
Whilst most of my film recipes fit into the nostalgic recipes or warm tones recipes categories, I do occasionally try to make a look that mimics the feel of a real 35mm film.
Finding a good selection of sample images is the key, and then looking to match the aesthetic with one of the available film simulations. I find that prints tend to vary quite a bit, and whilst Fujicolor ones most often look similar to Classic Negative, ones by other marques don’t, from the sample images at least, follow a set pattern. For Kodak Ultramax, I found Astia the best match, and so this is the base sim for the recipe.
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Kodak Ultramax Film Recipe: Sample Photos
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A nostalgic classic chrome film simulation recipe for X-Trans IV cameras
Sometimes, I have a name for a recipe before I have the settings to go with it. This is one of those occasions, when hearing the lo-fi song by Massive Attack, I thought that I just had to make a recipe called Karmachroma.
In keeping with the mood of the song, I’ve devised a mellow and laid back recipe, with a warm tone and 1990’s lo-fi styling. It likes nice bright conditions, where it produces a retro image that reminds me somewhat of old prints and postcards.
This film recipe with Classic Chrome also marks a moment in the development of this recipe site, as it is film recipe no. 100 in the collection. I never expected to be able to devise so many distinct looks when I got started, but here we are with 100 recipes and still more to come!
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Karmachroma Film Recipe: Sample Photos
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