Film Recipe - Lighthouse (Acros+R)

The Lighthouse recipe is inspired by the cinematic aesthetics of film noir, mainly influenced by the visually striking film "The Lighthouse". This black-and-white recipe is designed to create high-contrast, dramatic images with a gritty, timeless feel.

Lighthouse: Monochrome Film Simulation Recipe

Lighthouse

The Lighthouse recipe is ideal for photographers looking to create dramatic, high-contrast black and white images with a vintage, film noir feel. This recipe is perfect for a variety of genres, including street, portrait, and landscape photography.

Fujifilm JPEG Settings:

• Film Simulation: Acros+R

• Grain Effect: Strong/Large

• Monochromatic Colour: WC:-1 MG:0

• Highlights: +4

• Shadows: +4

• Sharpness: +1

• Noise Reduction: -4

• Clarity: +3

Description:

The Lighthouse recipe is ideal for photographers looking to create dramatic, high-contrast black-and-white images with a vintage, film noir feel. This recipe is perfect for various genres, including street, portrait, and landscape photography.

Settings Explanation:

• Acros+R (Red Filter): This film simulation boosts contrast and darkens skies, adding depth and drama, particularly in outdoor and landscape scenes.

• Grain Effect: Strong/Large: A pronounced grain effect adds a significant texture reminiscent of classic film noir, enhancing the overall gritty, vintage feel.

• Monochromatic Colour: WC:-1 MG:0: This slight shift towards a cooler tone adds a subtle, eerie atmosphere to your monochrome images, reminiscent of the stark, desolate mood in "The Lighthouse".

• Highlights: +4: Increasing highlights significantly brightens the light areas, creating strong contrasts and making key elements in your photos stand out starkly.

• Shadows: +4: Deepening the shadows adds to the high-contrast look, essential for capturing the dramatic, moody essence of film noir.

• Sharpness: +1: A slight boost in sharpness ensures that details are crisp, maintaining the clarity and definition necessary for impactful black-and-white photography.

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

• Clarity: +3: Enhancing clarity sharpens mid tone contrasts, adding definition and three-dimensional quality to your images.

Artistic Reasoning:

This recipe is perfect for those inspired by the cinematic beauty of film noir and looking to infuse their black-and-white photography with a bold, dramatic aesthetic.

Whether capturing the stark beauty of coastal landscapes, the intense emotions of human subjects, or the raw atmosphere of urban environments, Lighthouse will help you create striking, memorable images.

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

Lighthouse: 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.