How I was introduced to Fujifilm
I got to say, I do not consider myself a professional photographer because anyone that achieves this title in any discipline has nothing left to learn past this point. I want to keep getting better and better so Amateur is a more convenient title for me. I do, however, make a living out of photography. As a current industrial engineering student, it’s what pays my bills and feeds my belly. I work as an ambassador for a tourism agency and travel across Canada.
When I started photography, I was immediately drawn to aspect of editing the colours and tonalities of my images. With time, I went through every photo manipulation trends that overpopulate our instagrams: HDR, orange and teal, desaturated, and then some. Constantly going from one to the other to try and find one that fits my personal taste. Adjusting sliders until I had no clear representation of what the thing or place I shot actually looked like with my own eyes.
When I heard Fujifilm had this thing called « Film Simulations » which basically emulates old films, I was doubtful at first as to how good the images would be rendered. I had a Canon 5D Mark IV at the time and shot Raw exclusively. Having a good picture shot out of the camera did not really matter to me because I could just fix it in post. Canon does have pictures profiles named after the type of scenery that is shot (Portrait, Landscape, Colour, etc.) but they made little difference to me because I would use one of the Adobe ones in Lightroom afterwards since I shot Raw.
After watching several videos demonstrating Fujifilm’s SOOC (straight out of camera) JPGs. I got hooked to the idea of not having to edit anymore and let the camera do the job. I sold my Canon 5D Mark IV and Canon lenses to buy an XT3. It was a turning point in my career. Simplifying my workflow is something I was looking forward to when switching to Fuji because I could deliver content at a much faster pace.
On this page, you will find all of the Film Simulation Recipes I have developed over the years that made me switch to shooting JPEG + Raw and basically throwing my Raw files in the trash every time I import my photos because the JPEGs are too damn good.