Note: This is not a Fujifilm X100VI review.

One of the big deal things in the world of digital photography is film recipes. I sense this came as a response to impracticality in the economics of analog photography and lack of modern analog cameras meeting the needs of many. If I were to tell you I was never interested in emulating the “film look” in my digital work I’d be lying. But until now I had not found a workable solution for it and the solution was not the physical tool but the powerful image editing capabilities that it offered.

My journey begun with the objective to emulate the film look, not just the general idea of how the photographic results should look but also attempt in creating photographs to look as if they were recorded on very specific films such as Kodak Portra or Fujifilm Velvia, or Fujifilm Acros. But I found film recipes more like the templates to start developing my own “film look” presets that need not adhere to making my images look like they were taken on film.

The rest is history… I am in love with this new craft.