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.

Floodlit tennis court, with Fuji Five-O film recipe

More recipes for use on the coast

Here are some of the other recipes on this site that were designed for, or would work well on the coast.

Oceanic 815 – rich ocean blues for life on the island
Blanko Bleach – for dramatic seascapes with Bleach Bypass
Kodak Portra 66 – for creamy Portra beach tones
Eterna Lakeside – with a boost to blue tones
Diamond White – for a unique ocean tone aesthetic

Here are a handful from other sites too.

Pacific Blues – somewhat similar to this, from FujiXWeekly
Kodak Brilliance – bring out the blues, again from FXW
Kodak Ektar – rich and contrasty, from Piotr Skrzypek
Kodak Ultramax – so much like 35mm prints, from Piotr Skrzypek

Classic Negative Recipes

Blue Tones, Bright Conditions, Classic Negative, Cloudy Days, Holiday & Vacation, On The Homepage, Soft Tones, Winter

🌊 Let’s get creative in this new round of The Film Recipes Challenge 🏄 The recipe is the burned and faded look, Childhood Vacation, which loves to be over exposed. Try some images and share a selection in the Film Recipes Facebook Group or the comments on the recipe page. Open to everyone, until end of 8th June. Tag #childhoodvacation ☀️