A dark brown toned mono recipe using Acros and strong clarity
Like a shot of strong coffee, the deep dark tones in these shadows make quite a statement. If you want to produce a striking mono image, this film recipe might be a good choice for you.
To add character, the grain is strong and clarity is set high at +5. The overall look is very retro, perhaps similar to wet plate monochrome in colour, but also with an antique flatness to the image.
Double Expresso Film Recipe
- Simulation: Acros
- Grain Effect: Strong, Small
- Colour Chrome Effect: Off
- Colour Chrome Blue: Strong
- White Balance: Auto
- WB Shift: 0 Red, 0 Blue
- Mono Shift: WC +4, MG -2
- Dynamic Range: DR400
- Highlights: -2
- Shadows: +2
- Colour: N/A
- Sharpness: 0
- ISO Noise Reduction: -4
- Clarity: +5 for added drama
- EV compensation: +2/3
Street photography by Thocles
These next photos were kindly contributed by Thocles. See the full gallery linked in the comments below.
Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras 
4 responses to “Double Expresso, Retro Mono with Dark Shadows”
Thanks. However I do not like sepia and other monochrome variations (except black and white of course) I will give it a try. Clarity +5 seems interesting. Best regards.
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I do understand that mono with a tint is not for everyone. My thought really is that there are already excellent B&W recipes and not much new territory to cover. So mine are something different. It’s totally ok to use them with no tint of course. All my recipes are just ideas really
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And a few street snaps:
https://imageshack.com/a/bbjW7/1
Wonderful grain 🙂
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Thanks again for giving my recipes a test drive. I’ll bring a couple of shots up onto the page.
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