Monochrome film recipe based on the work of Daido Moriyama
I’ve been exploring the work of some black and white photographers, looking for inspiration about film recipes. A well known artist from Japan is Daido Moriyama, who shoots a striking black and white style.
In a number of his images, I notice deep blacks, burned highlights and the mid tones crushed to a narrower dynamic range. He also tends to use heavy grain. This is the style I have looked to reproduce in this film recipe.
The main settings in this recipe are the -2 highlights, paired with +4 shadows and strong grain. This is combined with a strong positive clarity setting, which will slow down saving, but is a part of the overall effect. Leave this on if you can tolerate the delays in saving. There’s also a gentle toning, which is in keeping with many of his images.
Daido Moriyama Film Recipe
- Simulation: Monochrome (Std, R, Y or G)
- Grain Effect: Strong, Large
- Colour Chrome Effect: Off
- Colour Chrome Blue: Off
- White Balance: Underwater
- WB Shift: 0 Red, 0 Blue
- Dynamic Range: DR400
- Highlights: -2.0
- Shadows: +4.0
- Mono Shift: WC +1, MG +1
- Sharpness: -2
- ISO Noise Reduction: -4
- Clarity: +4
- EV compensation: +2/3
For lots more photo samples, take a look at the Daido Moriyama user gallery, for 100+ images from photographers all around the world.
One response to “Daido Moriyama Film Recipe”
What a lovely recipe! This one is right up there with some of my favorite B&W recipes; FXW’s Kodak Tri-X 400 and T-Max P3200. The collection of images in the link are from Chicago’s Maggie Daley Park, Millennium Park and the Shedd Aquarium. All were captured using my X-S10 with a mix of lenses including the Fuji 18mm f/2 R, Zeiss 32mm f/1.8 Touit and the Fuji 23mm f/2 RWR. On both Fuji lenses I used a Tiffen Glimmer Glass 1 (I’m a big fan of glimmer glass 1’s and use them 90% of the time), which adds a wonderful bit of halation to this recipe, softening the images and making them quite dreamy. Overall a wonderful recipe that I will be using lots in the future.
As an aside, do you prefer a folder of images you can pick from or do you prefer I curate 5-10 images in the future?
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