LuttieThe Fujifilm Velvia 50 look
Fujifilm Velvia 50 is the landscape photographer's slide film, and its look is bold: intensely saturated greens and blues, deep skies and strong contrast. Luttie's Lush 50 is shaped after it, scanned straight, as a slide is.
Where it comes from
Velvia arrived in 1990 and changed landscape photography: its saturation made forests, autumn colour and skies look more vivid than the eye remembered them, which is exactly what landscape and nature photographers wanted. Fujifilm still makes it, and its name became shorthand for a saturated look, which is why Fujifilm's own cameras carry a Velvia film simulation.
How to grade it
In order. Every control below exists in the Luttie editor, free to use in your browser.
Film panel → Lush 50
Pick Lush 50 as the negative. Slides are scanned, not printed, so the print choice doesn't apply: the panel says so.
Exposure
-0.3 to 0 EV. A touch under deepens the colour, the way Velvia is usually shot.
Crosstalk
100 is the stock as modelled; lower towards 70 if greens get too loud.
Export
Export a .cube (Luttie Pro) for Resolve, Premiere or Final Cut, or a graded image straight from the editor.
When it works
Landscapes, forests and autumn colour
Drone footage of nature and coastlines
Skies that should go deep blue
Bold, colourful travel scenes
When to avoid it
Portraits: Velvia's saturation turns skin red and blotchy. Clean 100 (shaped after Ektachrome) is the slide for people, and Portrait 400 the negative.
Frequently asked
You can put the Velvia look on your own photos and footage free in Luttie's browser editor, and download the graded image. Exporting it as a .cube LUT is part of Luttie Pro.
Velvia is cooler and even more saturated, built for greens and blues; Kodachrome is warmer, with famous reds and yellows. In Luttie, Lush 50 and Slide 64 can be compared on the same photo by switching the negative.
No. Lush 50 follows the general character of Fujifilm's published Velvia 50 data, with its saturation chosen by eye. It hasn't been measured against real film, and Luttie isn't affiliated with Fujifilm.
Build it on your own footage
Drop in a photo or pull a frame from a video, grade it in the browser, and export a .cube LUT for DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or CapCut.
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Fujifilm and Velvia are trademarks of FUJIFILM Corporation. Luttie isn't affiliated with Fujifilm; its film stocks are inspired by published data about real films, not copies of them.