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Fujifilm Film Simulation Recipes

The document discusses seven different film simulation settings for a camera, each designed to emulate the style of a different photographer. For each setting, it provides the photographer it is based on, a brief description of their work and the intended subject matter for using that setting. The settings include Classic Chrome based on William Eggleston, Provia based on Joel Sternfeld, various Acros settings based on different black and white photographers, Pro Negative based on LaRoque and Velvia inspired by John Bulmer.

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Fujifilm Film Simulation Recipes

The document discusses seven different film simulation settings for a camera, each designed to emulate the style of a different photographer. For each setting, it provides the photographer it is based on, a brief description of their work and the intended subject matter for using that setting. The settings include Classic Chrome based on William Eggleston, Provia based on Joel Sternfeld, various Acros settings based on different black and white photographers, Pro Negative based on LaRoque and Velvia inspired by John Bulmer.

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Now first off let me get this straight.

These settings aren't the bottled magical substance of the photographers

listed, rather they're guides to how I should be approaching the shot. All simulations are set to DR: AUTO, Noise

-3, Grain: Off and Sharpness -1 unless stated otherwise.

1. Chrome Eggleston

Origin: Based on William Eggleston's sombre but beautiful rich colour work using the old Kodachrome.

Intent: Whenever I want a rich, warm and nostalgic feel, this is the one to go for. Also surprisingly good

for dystopian brutalist architecture. A good all-rounder.

 Film Simuation: Classic Chrome

 Grain Effect: Off

 Highlight Tone: +2

 Shadow Tone: +2

 Colour: -2

2. Provia Sternfeld

Origin: Designed to have the colours matching reality, with low contrast. Matches the sort of look used in

the New Topographics movement that Sternfeld helped pioneer.

Intent: Capturing that oddly beautiful banality of empty urban spaces.

 Film Simulation: Provia

 Highlight Tone: -2

 Shadow Tone: -1

 Colour: -3

3. Acros Ellen Mark

Origin: That beautiful B&W documentary 35mm work that Mary Ellen Mark was famous for.

Intent: The go-to Acros simulation. Perfect for documentary, portrait and fashion.

 Film Simulation: Acros Yellow Filter

 Highlight Tone: +2

 Shadow Tone: 0
4. Acros Moriyama

Origin: Based on the look that now legendary Japanese street photograph Daido Moriyama was famous

for.

Intent: Anything grungy, raw and primal from gig photography to night-time urban. Also a wildcard for

any situation to jolt me out of complacency.

 Film Simulation: Acros Red

 Dynamic Range: DR100

 Highlight Tone: +4

 Shadow Tone: +4

5. Acros Winogrand

Origin: Great American street-photographer who documented the increasing conformity of 70's

suburban America.

Intent: Going back in time using a machine to document the increasing conformity of 70's su... no, wait.

Er, not sure. But I've always loved Winogrand. Urban street work in good light.

 Film Simulation: Acros

 Highlight Tone: -2

 Shadow Tone: -2

6. Pro Neg LaRoque

Origin: Known mainly for working the Classic Chrome and Acros, Fujifilm X-Photographer LaRoque is

something of a modern inspiration for me and my blog. He once knocked my socks off with what he did

with a series of very soft, slightly ethereal Pro-Negative portraits, which I'd never considered before.

Intent: Portraits. Also a flat profile to work off if I ever want flexibility with a base of great skin tones and

colour accuracy.

 Film Simulation: Pro Negative

 Grain Effect: Weak

 Highlight Tone: -2

 Shadow Tone: -2

 Colour: -1

 Sharpness: -4
7. Velvia Bulmer

Origin: I don't think John Bulmer, the great British photographer, ever actually shot Velvia. But his

inventive documentary colour work possessed a remarkable vibrancy.

Intent: Bulmer's Northern industrial scenes remind me that Velvia isn't just for the Steve McCurry jaunts

through India, but for really bringing out spashes of colour in otherwise dour scenes - hence mainly

urban shooting with a bit of nature when all the colour isn't too overpowering.

 Film Simulation: Velvia

 Grain Effect: Weak

 Highlight Tone: -2

 Shadow Tone: +2

 Colour: -2

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