Pale Ale, for Nostalgic Landscape Images

A natural colour soft tones film recipe using Pro Neg Standard for X-Trans IV

Pale Ale

Pro Neg Standard is a film simulation that provides good colour accuracy across the spectrum, and works well for shooting portraits. I’ve made a number of film recipes with it, and enjoy the easy going character it has.

For the Pale Ale film recipe, I explored a variety of colour balance shifts, in search of a warm, slightly nostalgic but natural look that worked well with landscape subjects. After considerable experimentation and adjustment, I have settled on this shift from the Fluorescent 2 white balance base.

The result is a soft tones look, which captures the retro vibe of Fujifilm simulation shooting. It presents natural scenes in a tastefully calm way, without too much saturation or contrast, and with a warm nostalgic tint for added atmosphere.

Pale Ale Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	PRO Neg. Std
Grain Effect	Off
Col. Chr. Effect	Weak
Col. Chr. Blue	Weak
White Balance	Fluorescent 2, +3 Red, ‑7 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR200
Highlights	‑1
Shadows	‑1
Colour	‑3
Sharpness	1
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	0
EV Comp.	0

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February 24, 2023

Xylochrome, Vintage Lens Simulation

Classic Chrome film simulation recipe that emulates a vintage lens style

Xylochrome

Druring my film recipe creation process, I occasionally hit on a settings combination that produces a look that is completely different than I had expected. This experiment was just like that.

I was playing with X RAW Studio to make a Classic Chrome recipe with a downward scale of settings with 5, 4, 3 ,2 ,1 starting with a colour temperature of 5430K, a shift of 2, 1, and so on through the settings, until I added at the end of the scale, the strongest negative clarity setting, -5.

I normally avoid settings quite this strong, but on this occasion it added a softness that immediately reminded me of vintage lens photos that I had seen. The softness was like an imperfection, with a character that was decidely analog, especially in the out of focus areas of my images.

This vintage blur isn’t so visible at phone screen sizes, so I’ve provided a crop in the image below.

Xylochrome Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Classic Chrome
Grain Effect	Off
Col. Chr. Effect	Strong
Col. Chr. Blue	Off
White Balance	5430K, +2 Red, +1 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR200
Highlights	0
Shadows	‑1
Colour	‑2
Sharpness	‑3
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	‑5
EV Comp.	0

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February 20, 2023

Outdoor Cinema, Dreamy Low Contrast

Soft tones film simulation recipe for Fujifilm X-Trans IV with Eterna setting

Outdoor Cinema

This film recipe uses the Eterna / Cinema film simulation with a warm white balance and softened highlights. It brings a mellow warmth to your photos and when shooting outdoors, it works well at controlling bright conditions, and adding a warmer mood to cloudy days.

This has some of the softest contrast of my Eterna recipes, and with the 5, -5 WB shift, it features a retro tone, bringing out the brown green tint of Eterna in the images. In fact, only Ultrasoft 77 is softer.

In a twist, this recipe uses clarity and sharpness for crisp edges, so you get soft tones, but sharp images. I like this look and enjoy how it works with the low contrast. However, you may prefer to stay softer and more natural, so this is shown as optional in the details below.

Outdoor Cinema Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Eterna/Cinema
Grain Effect	Weak, Small
Col. Chr. Effect	Off
Col. Chr. Blue	Weak
White Balance	Auto, +5 Red, ‑5 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR200
Highlights	‑1.5
Shadows	0.5
Colour	‑3
Sharpness	2
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	2
EV Comp.	+2/3

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February 17, 2023

Vintage Astia, a Nostalgic Negative Mood

Astia film simulation recipe with a warm grainy retro look for X-Trans IV

Vintage Astia

So here’s a recipe that doesn’t replicate any film in particular, but has many of the qualities of a film. This is down to the use of Astia film simulation as the base to the recipe. It has a solid film-like feel, especially in the tone of the highlights, and is also a nice break from Classic Chrome and Classic Negative, which are quite distinctive in their styling.

The vintage part is an added mood, bringing warmth, grain and a gentle reduction in saturation. The result is a warm look, with the retro feel of images as they once were, but without being too much like any Kodachrome or Fujicolor style. I’ve become quite partial to it, using it as a general use recipe in all sorts of conditions.

This recipe also has a passing resemblence to Nostalgic Negative from the newest cameras, so if you want a recipe to fake it, this may be the one.

Vintage Astia Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Astia/Soft
Grain Effect	Strong, Small
Col. Chr. Effect	Strong
Col. Chr. Blue	Weak
White Balance	Auto (White Priority), +5 Red, ‑5 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR100
Highlights	‑1
Shadows	‑1
Colour	‑2
Sharpness	‑2
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	0
EV Comp.	0

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February 15, 2023

Expired Geographic, Aged Eterna for Nature

Eterna based film simulation recipe to mimic the look on an expired film

Expired Geographic

I love the faded look of an expired film, and even more so when there’s a wash out colour cast that leaks across the images. You see this effect sometime when a long out of date 35mm film is developed and a hazy lomo style image is revealed.

In this film recipe, I wanted to create something similar to looks I’d seen and admired, with a green/brown cast and low contrast and saturation. Eterna was the natural choice for a base, because it already shares some of these qualities in it’s tone and contrast.

The more that I’ve used this recipe, the more I have come to love it. It often feels like it has jumped straight from the cinema screen, and has a mellow aged tone that makes me want to use it more and more.

Clarity and CC Blue are used in this recipe, so newer X-Trans IV and V cameras will be able to use it in full. For older sensors, skipping those two settings will give a similar look that should still have lots of character.

Expired Geographic Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Eterna/Cinema
Grain Effect	Off
Col. Chr. Effect	Off
Col. Chr. Blue	Weak
White Balance	Fluorescent 1, ‑4 Red, ‑6 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR100
Highlights	‑1
Shadows	‑2
Colour	‑4
Sharpness	‑1
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	3
EV Comp.	0

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January 27, 2023

Emergency Flare, for Maximum Light Leak

Film simulation recipe that uses settings to maximise lens flare in your photos

Emergency Flare

I love shooting into the light … I mean, I really love it. I love the blast of soft light that flares and leaks into a scene. It’s my personaly preferred style, allowing me to capture atmosphere and mood, and wash out my images in a soft tones style.

Our FujiFilm cameras are modern and amazing, and have all sorts of design effort that has gone into reducing flare, at least to the point where you need to seek it out when you want it. I built this recipe to make it a bit easier, using recipe settings to lift shadows and maximise the flare effect.

So if you really love shooting towards the light, and prefer a washed out faded look, then reach for the Emergency Flare, and fire it to get the maximum flare possible.

Emergency Flare Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Eterna/Cinema
Grain Effect	Weak, Small
Col. Chr. Effect	Strong
Col. Chr. Blue	Weak
White Balance	7500K, +2 Red, +5 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR200
Highlights	1
Shadows	‑2
Colour	2
Sharpness	0
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	‑4
EV Comp.	0

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January 27, 2023

Winter Eterna, a Matte Cinematic Style

Eterna Cinema film simulation recipe with a low contrast faded look for winter

Winter Eterna

I recently upgraded my Mac and am enjoying the super speed it now has as it processes photos. Even X RAW Studio, which uses the camera to process images, is much faster, and whizzes along.

It was X RAW Studio that I have been using to develop this low contrast matte style with my recent winter photos. I’m pretty sure it will work all year, but at the moment we have low angle sunlight or damp and gloomy weather.

Eterna Cinema is the base simulation, and there is definitely a cinematic feel to this recipe. It’s perfect for landscapes and scenes where you want to lift the shadows and present a flatter tone, almost like a fade effect. The colour is natural, although saturation is low and the overall effect is that of soft muted tones, perfect for the winter palette found in last season’s plants and leaves.

Winter Eterna Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Eterna/Cinema
Grain Effect	Off
Col. Chr. Effect	Weak
Col. Chr. Blue	Off
White Balance	Auto, +2 Red, ‑3 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR400
Highlights	‑2
Shadows	‑1
Colour	0
Sharpness	‑2
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	0
EV Comp.	+1/3

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January 22, 2023

Age of Aquarius, Let the Sunshine In

Classic Negative film simulation recipe for a mellow and uniquely Fujifilm look

Age of Aquarius

I’ve been exploring mellow moods with film recipes recently, and wanted another recipe to compliment Mellow Magic and Vintage Mood, which both use Eterna. I think this image character is both unique to Fujifilm and also a beautiful tone in its own right.

For this relaxed recipe, I used Classic Negative, which has a built in nostalgic look. But, I also find it can be a bit too bold ‘as-is’ and benefits from a small amount of reining in. In this case, I trimmed highlights and reduced the saturation, and paired it with a warm colour balance based on 5000K temperature.

I kept the moody shadow tone at standard levels, which retains an impactful look. This also means that the recipe loves to work with sunlight, and is particularly pleasant when shooting towards the light. So, like it says in the Age of Aquarius song … Let the sunshine in ☀️

Age of Aquarius Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Classic Negative
Grain Effect	Weak, Small
Col. Chr. Effect	Off
Col. Chr. Blue	Weak
White Balance	5000K, +5 Red, ‑5 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR200
Highlights	‑1
Shadows	0
Colour	‑3
Sharpness	‑1
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	0
EV Comp.	0

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January 1, 2023

Melatonin, Calm & Muted by Grant Teng

Classic Negative film recipe for pales tones for city, landscape and nature

Melatonin

Here’s another wonderful guest recipe, designed by our contributor Grant Teng. You can see a number of his recipes in our user recipes section. I really love his style, capturing the tones and mood of the city with muted tones and balanced contrast.

For this recipe, Grant has used Classic Negative as the base simulation, a reduced saturation and a characterful combination of sharpening and negative clarity.

Grant says, “It’s a Classic Neg recipe for a dreamy urban look. Love it for neutral tones, but can produce some interesting muted-color results too. This probably requires a diffusion filter of some sort, but -5 clarity might work too (or you could combine both). It also turns into a nice clean street look once you pull out the filter.”

Grant shoots in Manila, capturing scenes from this busy city. On this occasion, I’ve added some of my own shots in the bottom section of the page, so you can see how the recipe looks out of the city too.

Grant’s images were taken with an XT4, 23F2, and a 1/4 K&F diffusion filter.

Melatonin Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Classic Negative
Grain Effect	Off
Col. Chr. Effect	Weak
Col. Chr. Blue	Weak
White Balance	Auto (Ambience Priority), +3 Red, +2 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR400
Highlights	1
Shadows	1
Colour	‑3
Sharpness	3
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	‑5
EV Comp.	+1/3

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December 31, 2022

Old West, Inspired by Western Movies

X-Trans IV Eterna film recipe for a cinematic style look like the Old West

Old West

I used to travel to the Western USA for work, and thinking back, there were so many amazing landscapes and scenes I would have enjoyed photographing with my Fujifilm camera. So, although I’m not there in person nowadays, I’ve made this recipe with the Old West in mind.

The recipe is based on Eterna for a cinematic feel, and uses a nostalgic warm colour shift to evoke the dusty Western feel. Heavy grain is in use too for another layer of ageing, giving a soft toned grainy image, a bit like older images from the American West.

Old West Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	Eterna/Cinema
Grain Effect	Strong, Large
Col. Chr. Effect	Strong
Col. Chr. Blue	Weak
White Balance	Auto, +8 Red, ‑8 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR200
Highlights	2
Shadows	2
Colour	‑4
Sharpness	0
ISO N.R.	‑4
Clarity	0
EV Comp.	+1/3

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December 11, 2022