Salted Slate

‘Salted Slate’ is my newest B&W Fujifilm recipe and I am absolutely loving it...

Before creating this recipe I had only ever made two other B&W recipes, both of which have the Film Simulation ACROS+R as their base. Salted Slate started as an experiment to branch out and test some of the other filtered versions of ACROS. After doing lots of tests, I took some shots combining ACROS+G & DR100 & STRONG, LARGE grain and love the results - and ‘Salted Slate’ was born.

I named this recipe ‘Salted Slate’ as my favourite results with this recipe come when you underexpose the image and let the DR100 provide the contrast. When underexposed this recipe shows a lovely dark grey tone which reminded me of slate and the LARGE, STRONG grain in the recipe made me think of grains of salt. Check out a few example images below or check out the full YouTube video I put out all about this recipe.

I recommend underexposing this recipe by 1/3 or 2/3 to darken the look and to protect your Highlights from blowing-out. If you’re finding the Highlights are consistently blowing out, maybe try change the Dynamic Range to DR200.

Canned Heat

ACROS +G
Dynamic Range: 100
Highlight: +1.5
Shadow: +4
Monochromatic Color: WC:0 MG:0
Noise Reduction: -4
Sharpening: 0
Clarity: 0
Grain Effect: Strong, Large
Color Chrome Effect: Off
Color Chrome Effect Blue: Strong
White Balance: AWB (R+3 B+3)