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Daido Moriyama Film Recipe

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.

Deep shadow and compressed mid-tones. Daido Moriyama film recipe

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.

Sunset at the marina, reimagined with Daido Moriyama film recipe
Walking the streets of Valledemossa, with Daido Moriyama film recipe
Flowers at sunset, captured with Daido Moriyama film recipe
Without colour, you see flowers differently. Daido Moriyama film recipe
Visiting a stately home, with the Daido Moriyama film recipe
Inside the stairwell, using the Daido Moriyama film recipe
Frosty day captures, using Daido Moriyama film recipe
In the restaurant, with Daido Moriyama film recipe
A delicious lunch, using Daido Moriyama film recipe
Curious swans, captureed with Daido Moriyama film recipe
Wings are up in a defensive pose, Daido Moriyama film recipe
Sunny day leaves, with the Daido Moriyama film recipe
Frost edged teasels on a winter morning, Daido Moriyama film recipe
Don’t wait until next winter to try the Daido Moriyama film recipe
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One response to “Daido Moriyama Film Recipe”

  1. 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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