Film simulation recipe using Pro Neg Standard for forest and woodland vibes
I love walking in forests and woodlands and take a lot of my photos in amongst the trees. I wanted to make a recipe that brought out the greens of the forest in a mellow and nostalgic look. I also wanted to recognise that it’s not always sunny, and when it’s a bit wet or gloomy, the forest is a great place to walk.
The base for this recipe is Pro Neg Standard, a simulation that Fujifilm suggest we use for portrait photography. That may well be a good use, but I have been drawn to the limestone grey green tone of neutrals and wanted to build on this for a forest look.
The resulting tone is soft and muted with a retro nostalgic feel, and there is a green character that runs throughout. It loves the woods in all seasons and all weathers, working well with pale creams, browns and oranges as well as its main feature, green tones.
I have a page of suggestions for film recipes for forests and woodlands, but this is the first that I have made specifically with this in mind.
Forest Ranger Film Recipe
- Simulation: PRO Neg. Std
- Grain Effect: Off
- Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
- Colour Chrome Blue: Strong
- White Balance: Daylight
- WB Shift: +2 Red, -7 Blue
- Dynamic Range: DR100
- Highlights: -1.0
- Shadows: -1.0
- Color: -4
- Sharpness: +1
- ISO Noise Reduction: -4
- Clarity: 0
- EV compensation: 0
More Pro Neg Film Recipes
The two Pro Neg film simulations are less well represented in the world of film recipes, but there are some interesting looks to be found. Here’s a handful for further investigation…
- Easy Going – a versatile landscape recipe with Pro Neg Hi
- Kodak Portra Pro – mimic for the popular Kodak film look
- Aged Color – an old photo look, from Fuji X Weekly
- Porto 200 – possibly my fav X-Trans 3 recipe, Fuji X Weekly
- Retro Standard – a nostalgic look with bags of character
- Kodak Gold 200 – Piotr Skrzypek’s KG film recipe
Film Recipes for Fujifilm Cameras 
4 responses to “Forest Ranger, Woodland Green Recipe”
Beautiful!!! We have a lot of tree saplings that have gone mad. Mainly Ash I think. How do you deal with them all shooting up so close to each other? Just rotational culling???
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I’m no gardener, but I think Ash trees are going to be quite rare in a few years, with all the die back disease. I’d try to keep them all going to share them around with places that have lost theirs.
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i absolutely love the images you have produced with this recipe. Definitely going to use this on my X-Pro3 with spring around the corner.
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Thanks very much. It should be great with Spring greens
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