Low contrast film recipes with a cinematic feel
One of the wonderful gifts that the engineers at Fujifilm have given us, is the Eterna Cinema film simulation. The soft smooth feel of this recipe is wonderful for capturing golden hour, misty weather and a moody flat tone look.
As a favourite look of mine, I’ve made well over 50 recipes that capture a generally cinematic vibe, mostly with Eterna simulation, but also using others, such as Pro Neg Standard and Classic Chrome.
In my vision of ‘cinematic’, I’m thinking of independent cinema films are shot using a low contrast, moody look. This soft artistic style also looks great in still images, especially in soft light, or if the subject has the look of a cinematic scene.
These recipes are drawn from both the site and the Film Recipes App, ordered first by how closely each recipe was designed to capture the cinematic character — from direct interpretations through to inspired-by looks — and then by popularity within each group. App-only recipes are included and marked 🔒.
Cinematic Film Simulation Recipes
These are 100 of the 204 cinematic recipes in the full library. To browse all of them in one place, get the Film Recipes App — available for iOS and Android.