Bonsai Green

When I got my X-H2s, one of the first things I just had to try out was the new Nostalgic Negative Film Simulation. Initially however I was a little disappointed with how it handled skin tones, so I put Nostalgic Negative to one side and went back to mainly shooting with Classic Chrome, Classic Negative & Astia.

Fast forward a month or so and I was trying to create a new recipe that would capture greens well, that was more versatile than my previous green focused recipe Jurassic Jade (above). If I remember correctly, I had shot a few test images with Jurassic Jade and pulled the RAF files into Fujifilm X RAW Studio to have a play. By accident I changed the Film Simulation to Nostalgic Negative, and I loved what I saw.

After a good bit more playing around, I ended up with this recipe and named it Bonsai Green. It’s a lot calmer and more versatile than Jurassic Jade and gives quite a different tone to the greens and browns (reminding me of rural Japan hence ‘Bonsai’). Below you can see some example jpegs taken with this recipe on a wet and rainy day, in a forest, in Northern Ireland. Bonsai Green has become my new go-to green focused recipe, why not give it a try for yourself?

Bonsai Green

Nostalgic Negative
Dynamic Range: 200
Highlight: +1
Shadow: +4
Color: +3
Noise Reduction: -4
Sharpening: -4
Clarity: +4
Grain Effect: Strong, Small
Color Chrome Effect: Strong
Color Chrome Effect Blue: Off
White Balance: Auto (R1 B-5)