Film Recipe - Pure Grit (Acros+Ye)

The Pure Grit recipe is designed to give a gritty, analog film look, perfect for creating raw and intense black-and-white images. This recipe enhances textures and contrasts to deliver a powerful visual punch reminiscent of classic film photography.

Pure Grit: Monochrome Film Simulation Recipe

Pure Grit

The Pure Grit recipe is designed to emulate a gritty, analog film look, perfect for creating raw and intense black-and-white images.

This recipe enhances textures and contrasts to deliver a powerful visual punch reminiscent of classic film photography.

Fujifilm JPEG Settings:

• Film Simulation: Acros+Ye
  Grain Effect: Strong/Large
  Highlights: +4
  Shadows: +4
  Noise Reduction: -4
  Clarity: +3

Description:

The Pure Grit recipe is ideal for photographers looking to create intense, high-contrast black and white images with a gritty, analog feel. This recipe is perfect for various genres, including street, portrait, and landscape photography.

Settings Explanation:

• Acros+Ye (Yellow Filter): This film simulation enhances contrast and definition, particularly in skies and skin tones, providing a bold and dynamic monochrome look.

• Grain Effect: Strong/Large: A pronounced grain effect adds significant texture, giving your images a gritty, vintage feel that is characteristic of high-contrast analog film.

• Highlights: +4: Increasing the highlights brightens the light areas to an extreme degree, creating stark contrasts and making key elements in your photos stand out dramatically.

• Shadows: +4: Deepening the shadows significantly enhances contrast and depth, adding a moody and intense quality to your images.

• Noise Reduction: -4: Minimizing noise reduction maintains the natural grain and texture, avoiding any smoothing that could detract from the gritty, raw aesthetic.

• Clarity: +3: Boosting clarity sharpens midtone contrasts, enhancing textures and giving your photos a more defined, three-dimensional quality.

Artistic Reasoning:

This recipe is perfect for those inspired by the gritty, high-contrast aesthetic of classic analog film and looking to infuse their black and white photography with a bold, dramatic look. Whether capturing the gritty essence of city streets, the intense emotions of human subjects, or the rugged beauty of natural landscapes, Pure Grit will help you create striking, memorable images.

NOTE: Some settings may not be available on every Fujifilm Camera

Pure Grit: Monochrome Film Simulation Recipe Film Simulation Recipe (Sample Images)

If you prefer Shooting RAW:

Those of you who prefer to shoot RAW and edit with the more advanced latitude this gives you may be interested in my current set of Professionally designed profile-based Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw Presets.