This recipe is amazing for moody foresty settings. Look for pop of highlights in the image for balance, as this will use the dark greens like a natural vignette. The reds are not over saturated, yet they will pop more in contrast to the darkened background.
This recipe is made for the Fujifilm X-Trans IV sensor -> all featured photos here are shot with the Fujifilm X-E4. The recipe also works for X100V, X-T4, X-S10 & X-T30II.
This recipe utilizes the dark blue greens of the classic negative film sim and underexposes the entire image by -2/3 EV. This way the greens are rich, moody and more “cinematic”. To make the skin tones less saturated and red, I adjusted the WB shift so that melanin-rich skin tones look balanced. To fight the strong contrast of classic neg, the shadows are a bit pulled and highlights pushed for a better highlight roll off. As always, similar to Reggie’s Portra, I always set the white balance to AUTO and Clarity to 0 for speedy shooting.
I love that as soon as I enter a nature setting or a forest, or a park or something will lots of trees, I know exactly which film recipe to choose. My goal is always to create the best images in cam, instead of having to spend another RAW editing session at home. That’s why, Jpegs only, straight out-of-cam, is the way to go for me.
RECIPE
Push/pull processing | -⅔ EV |
Dynamic Range | DR100 |
D Range Priority | OFF |
Film Sim | Classic Neg |
Grain Effect | Strong |
Size | Small |
Color Chrome Effect | Strong |
Color Chrome FX Blue | Weak |
White Balance | AUTO |
WB Shift | R:-1, B:+1 |
Highlight Tone | -2 |
Shadow Tone | -1.5 |
Color | +1 |
Sharpness | -1 |
High ISO NR | -4 |
Clarity | 0 |