Eterna simulation recipe for urbex, industrial and city photography
Urban exploration photography is a growing trend, where you take a photowalk through a city or other built up area and look out for interesting photo subjects. These can be buildings, highways, rail tracks, fences, trucks or industrial buildings. Images often include a lot of grey or materials like metal and concrete.
I’ve used Eterna film simulation as the base for this recipe, with soft tones, but also a built in green tint to neutrals that adds a lot of cinematic character, and works well with greys and neturals for a muted urbex look.
Urbex Cinematic Film Recipe
- Simulation: Eterna/Cinema
- Grain Effect: Strong, Large
- Colour Chrome Effect: Off
- Colour Chrome Blue: Strong
- White Balance: Daylight
- WB Shift: +2 Red, -6 Blue
- Dynamic Range: DR200
- Highlights: +2.0
- Shadows: +3.0
- Color: -4
- Sharpness: 0
- ISO Noise Reduction: -4
- Clarity: +2
- EV compensation: +2/3
NB: These details have been corrected with the -6 Blue setting.
Inspiration for Urbex Photography
Try these links to give you some inspiration for urban photography styles.
- On the Streets: Newcastle – by Jamie Chance
- Film & Vision – urban photography with a range of simulations
- A Pandemic Journey – late night street photography 2020-22
Facebook groups to try.
- New Topographics Photographers and the Aesthetic of the Liminal Space – An active Facebook group for New Topographics
- New Topographic & Non-Place Group – Images of buildings and the places in between
- The New Topographic Movement – buildings and other structures, plus round ups of their Instagram group images too
Urban Film Recipes
- Recipes by Marcel Fraij – some great choices for city shooting
- Kebs Cayabyab – YouTube channel with lots of street content
- Øyvind Nordhagen – Film recipes from the master of Astia
- TheBigNegative – Excellent Film & digital YouTube channel
- Roman Fox – Street photography YouTube channel
Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras 