Sherbet Lemon

Finally a Velvia recipe I am happy with! ‘Sherbet Lemon’ was created for a recent road trip across the UK with my family. I knew we would be visiting a few seaside towns and so wanted to create a recipe to capture all of those bright colours often found at the amusements, arcades, funfairs, candy floss, ice-cream shops etc.

With a combination of vibrant colours from its Velvia base, minus clarity for a sweet dreamy effect and more sharpness than an actual lemon – the results are a pretty stylised, over-the-top recipe that is however a lot of fun to play with.

Check out some examples below…

‘Sherbet Lemon’ is more stylised than maybe any of my other recipes but some photographs just need a little zest, don’t you agree? This recipe will probably not be for everyone and definitely not for every occasion (example, it’s pretty horrendous at skin tones) but if you love shooting objects with big, bright, bold, vibrant, vivid, colours - definitely give ‘Sherbet Lemon’ a try.

Nurture Nature

Velvia
Dynamic Range: 200
Highlight: -1.5
Shadow: +1.5
Color: +3
Noise Reduction: -4
Sharpening: +2
Clarity: -3
Grain Effect: Strong, Small
Color Chrome Effect: Weak
Color Chrome Effect Blue: Weak
White Balance: Auto (R3 B-4)