Film look

Photographing the sea

Photo by Nikita Pishchugin on Unsplash · shot on Canon EOS 6D Mark II

FilmWideperson-in-scene

Original Gear

CameraCanon EOS 6D Mark II

LensNot recorded

SourceNikita Pishchugin on Unsplash

Camera Settings

Original

Aperture

f/2

Shutter

1/125

ISO

—

Focal length

—mm

Edit Recipe

Original

Lifted shadows and a gentle contrast curve
Colour and warmth balanced to the light
Grain and vignette to taste

Full editing recipe and shooting steps included

Notes

Soft, diffuse twilight wraps the scene in cool blue-grey tones with a warm blush horizon low in the frame. Light is frontal-ambient with no hard shadows, coming from the fading sky ahead. The palette is muted mauve, dusty rose, and steel blue. Shallow depth of field isolates the phone screen sharply against a softly blurred ocean background, creating an intimate, contemplative mood with gentle low-contrast tones throughout.

Look character

Phone screen is the sharpest focal point, glowing with a warmer sunset rendering than the ambient sceneBackground ocean and sky rendered as smooth, desaturated bokeh washClothing and skin tones pulled toward cool lavender-mauve by the blue-hour ambient lightStrong foreground-to-background depth separation with creamy out-of-focus transition

Difficulty

Needs a short window of light.

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