A variation on the popular Yakisugi film recipe suited to green scenes
Yakisugi Green
If you are a regular visitor to this site, or to the main film simulation and recipe Facebook groups, you’ll know about the Yakisuji Film Recipe, by Mehdi Berrada. That recipe is a class act, with stunning deep shadow and a characterful brown and cream tone. I’ve seen numerous wonderful images shared that were taken using it, but the one subject that doesn’t come up so often, is green scenery.
That changed when I saw a wonderful gallery shared by Giang Le, who took images of a cafe in Ninh Binh city, Vietnam. The greens were simply amazing, as you’ll see below.
The secret, as well as our magical Fujifilm cameras, was to adapt the recipe with an adjusted colour balance. Gone was the 7500K temperature, replaced instead with 7700K and an uncommon -4, 4 colour shift. The results were so good that I asked to share the adapted recipe with you, and here we have Yakisugi Green, originally by Mehdi Berrada, adpated by Giang Le.
The images in this section are by Giang Le, X-E3 with 50mm f2, with addition samples added from my RAW files.
Yakisugi Green Film Recipe Settings
| Film Simulation | Classic Chrome |
| Grain Effect | Strong, Large |
| Colour Chrome Effect | Off |
| Colour Chrome Blue | Off |
| White Balance | 7700K, ‑4 Red, +4 Blue |
| Dynamic Range | DR200 |
| Highlights | 0 |
| Shadows | +2 |
| Colour | ‑3 |
| Sharpness | ‑1 |
| ISO Noise Reduction | ‑4 |
| Clarity | 0 |
| EV Compensation | 0 |
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