Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras

Nostalgic, soft tone and vintage film recipes using Fujifilm film simulations

Fuji Five-O, for Life on the Water

As you’ll be able to tell by the number of beach and boats photos on this site, I live near the English coast, where are there is always something happening on the water. Whether this is sailing, swimming, a passing cruise ship, or the latest craze, SUP (or stand-up paddleboarding), it’s a good source of photographic subject matter.

With all that blue water around me, it’s natural that at least some of my recipes will be designed to work well for life on the water.This one, which I’ve called Fuji Five-O, brings out the blues in a scene, with creamy neutrals and, because it’s based on Classic Negative, those print style greens.

It uses a fixed colour temperature, negative clarity and soft tone curve, which adds to the aesthetic throughout the day, giving a pale softness to golden hour, and keeping blues prominent, which I personally really like.

Big, small and different colours. Taken with Fuji Five-O film recipe.

Fuji Five-O Film Recipe

Simulation: Classic Negative
Grain Effect: Weak, Small
Colour Chrome Effect: Off
Colour Chrome Blue: Strong
White Balance: 5000K
WB Shift: -1 Red, -4 Blue
Dynamic Range: DR200
Highlights: -1
Shadows: -2
Colour: -2
Sharpness: 0
ISO Noise Reduction: -4
Clarity: -2
EV compensation: 0

Pale tones at sunset, with the Fuji Five-O film recipe

Industrial something or other, with Fuji Five-O film recipe

Ocean tones, captured with the Fuji Five-O film recipe

Waterside apartments, taken with the Fuji Five-O film recipe

In a neighbours garden, captured with Fuji Five-O film recipe

Sunlit petunias, taken with the Fuji Five-O film recipe

A rural scene, captured with Fuji Five-O film recipe

In the wheatfield, with Fuji Five-O film recipe

Classic Fujifilm greens, with Fuji Five-O film recipe

Sunny woodland walk, taken with Fuji Five-O film recipe

A stile on the footpath, with Fuji Five-O film recipe

Fuji Five-O film recipe, used to capture a rural scene

Abandoned fishing boat. Do you see the roadway behind…?

Looking back from the roadway, with Fuji Five-O film recipe

Framed by nature, with tones from the Fuji Five-O film recipe

Fuji Five-O at Night

I recently took a couple of shots of our tennis club at night. I took these as RAW files, so I could test how various film recipes looked in dark/street conditions.