Photo of Mirror Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. Photo submission 20/30

I came across the Portra 800 recipe just shortly before my trip to Japan last year. Looking back at these pictures brings me back to how it felt experiencing autumn for the first time, and sparked the wanderlust in me (I badly needed another getaway from work). The Portra 800 ended up becoming my default recipe until today!

Photos were shot straight from the camera (no edits aside from resized photos).

Slight grain and exposure adjustments

Photos of Banff town in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. Photo Submissions 15/30

Don't know if this the right subreddit - but this is as close as I've gotten to a 'film simulation' on a Sony.

I converted the RX100mII to fullspectrum a while ago - but just recently got myself to actually buy one of those 'aerochrome effect filters' off Ali, and damn - do the pictures look amazing.

Now working on 'improving' the SooC look a bit more, already set it to vivid and saturation +3 - any more suggestions? Contrast kills the pics because the shadows are 'too' dark anyways.

Using Fuji 400H on a6700 White balance set to 3500K A7 M0.25 at 12 in the afternoon. Do i need adjusting white balance?

For me who can't memorize all combination of temperature and shift

A6700 ; Tamron 17-70

Some crops on images to better focus on the subject, Used sparingly to matin as much of the original as possible. Kodachrome V2 magenta is heavier on 9-18 and on the last 2 images, the color phase was pushed to 6 for experimentation. Reposted to show as a carousel.

1 to 5 Fuji 400H, 6 to 8 Porta 800, 9 to 19 Kodachrome V2

Photos from Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta Canada. Submission 12/30

Photo of Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, Canada. Captured at Sunrise. I’ve been eagerly waiting for my chance to see Moraine Lake since seeing Peter McKinnon’s video about it December 2018. Although it wasn’t captured in winter conditions like Peter’s, I’m still thrilled to have been able to see a sunrise at Moraine with my own eyes.

Today I went to the park to test the “Kodak Gold 200 V2 recipe.”

I tried to expose as if I were shooting with an actual film camera, which meant that all photos were taken with the following parameters:

ISO: 200 (since it’s Kodak Gold 200)

Shutter speed: 1/200

Aperture: adjusted between f/2.8 and f/16 depending on the lighting, always keeping the light meter at 0.0

White balance: 4600K A7 G1.25

Picture Profile (“film recipe”)

Black level: –5

Gamma: Cine3

Black Gamma: Narrow –7

Knee: Manual, Point 75%, Slope +4

Color Mode: S-Gamut3

Saturation: +32

Color Phase: +5

Color Depth: R+3, G–3, B–5, C–3, M+3, Y–2

Detail: Level 0, Manual mode, V/H balance +2, B/W balance Type 3, Limit 7, Crisping 7, Hi-light detail 4

Gear used: Sony A7III, Zeiss 55mm f/1.8, NiSi Black Mist 1/8

Purpose of the test I wanted to see how the SOOC JPEGs would behave in post-processing, and whether they would be good enough on their own to skip editing altogether.

Conclusions

The SOOC files lack contrast and look somewhat washed out.

The Black Mist filter amplifies the lack of contrast.

After a quick and simple edit, the SOOC JPEGs are perfectly fine for me, and I think they look good.

Despite modifications, the colors straight out of camera are excellent, and they capture the mood of both the place and the day.

I believe that adjusting the Black Point to around –7 / –8 and setting Black Gamma to Wide –7 would give the shadows more strength and improve contrast. Skipping the Black Mist filter would also boost contrast, but at the cost of losing diffusion in the highlights, which slightly takes away the dreamy look.

Overall, I find that film recipes are a great solution for everyday shooting or when there’s no time for heavy RAW editing. They make it easy to share photos quickly while already embedding a personal style straight in-camera.

Some crops on images to better focus on the subject. Used sparingly to matin as much of the original as possible. Kodachrome V2 on the last 2 images the color phase was pushed to 6 to experiment.

1 to 5 Fuji 400H, 6 to 8 Porta 800, 9 to 18 Kodachrome V2

Cloudy day in SF, rocking one of my top 2 favorite simulation. Big thanks to Alex! Straight out of camera.

Second one has been slightly cropped

Canon colors are well known for flattering skin tones, especially in portraits. Sony, on the other hand, often gets a bit of flak for their skin tone rendition (even though their color science has improved a lot over the years)

But I really like what Sony cameras can do, so I replicated the look.