Classic Negative film simulation recipe for Fujifilm X-Trans 4 in Golden Hour
Some of the best light for taking photographs is found during the golden hour around sunrise and sunset. The softness of the light, coupled with the longer shadows and warmer hues, make taking beautiful photos a lot easier.
Photographer Kebs Cayabyab, has developed some recipes on his YouTube channel, including a wonderfully warm Provia recipe called Dela Rosa (2nd recipe in the clip) that he uses in his late afternoon street photography.
I’ve enjoyed his recipe, and in experimenting with it, developed a variant that uses Classic Negative with a couple of stops of overexposure. I call this version Rosa Negative, and like Keb’s original, it’s wonderful in golden hour.
Rosa Negative Film Recipe
- Simulation: Classic Negative
- Grain Effect: Strong, Small
- Colour Chrome Effect: Off
- Colour Chrome Blue: Strong
- White Balance: 6000k
- WB Shift: +4 Red, -5 Blue
- Dynamic Range: DR200
- Highlights: -2
- Shadows: -1
- Colour: -4
- Sharpness: 0
- ISO Noise Reduction: -4
- Clarity: -1
- EV compensation: +1/3 or +2/3
Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras 