I’ve been on the road almost all of August. I’ve traveled from the west coast to the east coast, and stopped at a few places in-between. It’s been an epic three weeks of travel, and I’m not home yet.
Because I’ve been so busy, I haven’t been able to publish anything on Fuji X Weekly (until today …briefly, anyway), answer your comments, or respond to your emails. I will get to them as soon as I have the opportunity—I apologize for the delay, and appreciate your patience.
I have so much content to share! I have many various articles and photographs to post, and I hate that I can’t just type it all out right now. Once I’m back home, I will busily get it all ready for publication. Expect most of it to be published throughout September.
Today, while I have a quick opportunity, I wanted to briefly shoutout both the Nashville and Philadelphia photowalks. These were the last two on the tour. It was so great to meet you all in your hometowns, and it was an honor to photograph with you. Those two photowalks, which were just two days apart, were such a great way to conclude the series.
41 people showed up for the Nashville photowalk. It was in the middle of the week, which I think made it a little more difficult for people attend. I’m so thankful to everyone who did make it out. There was a bit of a mixup in the meetup location, which delayed the start. Once we began… Broadway is such a busy road! I had never been to Nashville, and I had no clue that the there would be gobs and gobs of people on the sidewalks. Because of this, there were a ton of photo opportunities everywhere (literally every spot you looked), but also it was impossible to stay together as a group, and difficult to have conversations. Still, it seemed like everyone had a great time. A special thanks to Gabe Wasylko for co-leading the photowalk, to Fujifilm for all the behind-the-scenes work to make it happen, and The Pixel Connection for all your help and support!
Here are a few photos that I captured on the Nashville photowalk:
The Philadelphia photowalk was great… but we also got soaked. I counted 49 people, who came out despite the forecasted rain (apparently it’s not always sunny in Philadelphia…). I gave a short presentation on film simulations and Film Simulation Recipes, then we headed out with our cameras to tour the historic Old City district. As we were making our way back the sky broke open and it just poured. It didn’t last long, but those without weather-sealed gear (myself included) got to test out if the rain would really ruin our cameras. The X-T50 I had made it through unscathed. Anyway, thank you to all those who braved the weather to come along—it was so great to meet you! Also, a special thanks to Allan Ali for co-leading the photwalk, to Fujifilm for all the behind-the-scenes work, and Unique Photo for hosting!
Here are a few photos that I captured at the Philadelphia photowalk:
Hi! Just wondering if it’s possible to use FujiX Weekly film sims when I film some footage? Or are they only for photography?
Some effects are available only for photography. But there are simulations that don’t use those effects so are not affected when the firmware disables them in movie mode.
All the others will look different than intended – the effects disabled by movie are essential for those simulations and will not look the same without.
I think it will be of great help if in the future, “safe for movie” will be included as a note for the recipes…
I’m not sure what would make a Recipe “safe for video”—X-Trans III Recipes don’t have Color Chrome Effects or Clarity, but they do have Grain, so perhaps those are the “safest” maybe? Really, there should be video Recipes, but… I’m not a prolific movie maker (two YouTube videos this year so far, three last year….), so that’s definitely challenging for me, personally. Whenever we do make a video, we use a Recipe for the footage, and just ignore the parameters that are not available. I find that lower-contrast Recipes tend to do better than higher contrast, but it depends on the subject, mood, and lighting.
They can be used for video; however, some options are not available, such as Grain, Color Chrome Effects, and Clarity. So it’s not 100% the same, but definitely give it a try anyway.
I suppose grain is a random pattern, and, applied to the movie it would look like a “great agitation of ants”…
Yes, all recipes that do not use Color Chrome Effects (or those on low value, so differences are minimal) and those with Clarity on minus, where you can use a mist filter instead… If a “vintage” recipe is used, probably there are methods to degrade the image even further (like a vignette through a physical filter). There is also that trick with a fishing line, for anamorphic effects like here (personally, I would combine a fishing line with a mist filter):
https://youtu.be/BNmtagrtQjk?si=ruJobLG-gXogcPMZ
It would definitely be interesting to explore all of that. Thanks for the input and sharing the link!