Summer Blue - Film Simulation for Sigma FP
Summer Blue Film - Film Simulation for the Sigma FP
This month, I’m taking my Sigma FP back to one of my favorite cities, Vlore, Albania, to soak up some sun and create some new film simulations. The sea and the sand draw me towards using Sigma’s Powder Blue Color Mode (review), and I’ve slightly modified the white balance to warm things up a bit.
This film simulation is only a slight modification of Sigma’s original, but enough to give it a unique look. I’ve dialed back the contrast and added a tiny pinch of saturation. The pink in the skin tones reminds me a bit of Kodak Ektar 100.
I used the Fill Light feature on this recipe at +1.0 to reveal the shadows. According to Sigma’s website, Fill Light “is useful to adjust the brightness of an image by adding extra light energy into the shadow regions without altering the exposure of highlighted regions.” As someone who often boosts shadows in photos, I really like this feature and it suits my editing style. Its a good additions to the typical shadow/highlight tools.
I think this is a great summer film simulation. I’ll be using to capture the final scenes of summer 2024.
If you want more film simulations for the Sigma FP and FP L, check out these pages on my website:
Recipe Instructions:
Color Mode: Powder Blue (Strength 0, default)
Contrast: -0.6 (Contrast, sharpness, and saturation are found by pressing the AEL button while in the Color Mode menu.)
Sharpness: +0.2
Saturation: -0.2
White Balance: Auto (Lighting Source Priority)
Custom White Balance Adjustments: A4, M4
Tone: Manual, Shadows +1, Highlights 0
Fill Light: +1.0
Color Palette:
I didn’t adjust the colors after taking these photographs, they are all SOOC or straight-out-of-camera. I make all my recipe sample photos this way to give the end user a true representation of what the recipe looks like in a variety of scenes.
Sample Photos from Sigma FP with Azure Natural Film Simulation
All of these sample images are straight-out-of-camera JPEG images, the colors are original and have not been edited. All of these photographs were taken with the Sigma FP with an adapted m-mount Voigtlander 35mm f1.2 (version 1).
