I believe I was bored when I started working on this recipe, and, no doubt, it started out as something radically different before I hit on it.
With a recent change in my shooting philosophy, I decided to work on recipes built around only the color palette and not on shadows and highlights settings. Somehow, I stumbled across a Classic Chrome-based recipe that works in an unbelievable number of settings. I tested it out on probably a couple of hundred pics and didn’t really find many where it absolutely didn’t work. Because of its general utility, I came up with the rather boring name of Versatile Color. For a few seconds, I contemplated Color Chrome, but then I remembered that Mark Adams already had a recipe by the same name; I do most of my work in the early morning, and I no doubt hadn’t had enough coffee. When I posted samples to my FB, Mark suggested Versatilia, which is more interesting, to be honest, but I went with one that follows most of my other recipes.
Since I moved to shooting everything on DR-P Strong, I replaced the Dead Plain slot on my Q menu with this recipe.
I made far too many samples to post them individually, so instead, here is the Flickr album. This is supposed to have arrows that you can use to navigate between images without having to click and be taken to the Flickr page.
Here is the recipe:
Versatile Color Film Simulation: ClassicChrome White Balance: Auto R: +3 B: +1 Dynamic Range: Shoot in DR-P Strong, adjust using in-camera conversion or Raw Studio Highlights: - (Adjust using in-camera conversion or Raw Studio) Shadows: - (Adjust using in-camera conversion or Raw Studio) Color: +3 Sharpness: +2 Noise reduction: -3 Grain Effect: Weak CC Effect: Off ISO: Auto Exp. Compensation: as-needed
This recipe is licensed: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)