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Emberline: A Fujifilm X100V Film Recipe (In-Camera JPEG + Lightroom/RAW Guide)

Writer: Edward Leung
Edward Leung
Sep 22
3 min read
Yellow heritage tram on cobblestone street under wires, with Emberline FujiFilm Recipe text in amber-teal duotone.
A classic yellow tram glides down cobblestone streets under a vibrant amber-and-teal duotone, capturing urban charm and vintage allure.
Before-and-after of a yellow Lisbon tram on a cobblestone street beside a worn red facade, titled Ochre Facade Emberline.
Before and after comparison of a classic yellow tram in Lisbon, showcasing the dramatic enhancement using the "Emberline" ochre facade filter with Fujifilm X100V film recipe.
Before/after photo of a yellow tram on a cobblestone Lisbon street, with WIRED ALLEY Emberline text and darker edited tones.
Vintage streetcar in an urban setting, before and after applying the Emberline filter to enhance its colors and contrast.
Split-screen before/after of a yellow Lisbon tram on cobblestone tracks by a stone cathedral, labeled Cathedral Line Emberline.
Side-by-side comparison of a classic yellow tram on the Cathedral Line, showcasing the "Emberline" film recipe effect, with a noticeable transformation in contrast and color from a lighter daytime scene to a moodier, dusk-like ambiance.

A graphic, high-contrast warm/cool duotone built for elevated transit and urban night scenes -- amber light pools held warm and saturated against a cooled, teal-leaning blue-black base. Rather than lean on one of the Fujifilm simulations with a built-in "flavor," Emberline starts from PROVIA/Standard, the cleanest and most faithful base in the lineup, and does the work through white balance, tone, and color chrome instead.


Fujifilm X100V In-Camera Recipe

  • Film Simulation: PROVIA/Standard -- clean, faithful base that lets the WB/tone grading do the work rather than a built-in color cast

  • Dynamic Range: DR400 -- needed to hold both the near-black sky and the hot platform/light sources in one frame

  • Highlight Tone: -2 -- pulls down the brightest light pools so they read as glowing rather than blown

  • Shadow Tone: +2 -- deepens shadows toward a graphic near-black rather than lifting them

  • Color: +2 -- a touch more saturation than neutral, to hold the amber/teal duotone with punch

  • Sharpness: 0 -- standard, the grain and contrast do most of the textural work

  • Noise Reduction: -2 -- leaves some texture in, consistent with a higher-ISO night exposure

  • Grain Effect: Strong, Small -- a more pronounced grain than this archive's daylight recipes

  • Color Chrome Effect: Strong -- deepens and controls the saturated amber light pools without clipping

  • Color Chrome FX Blue: Strong -- deepens the teal-cyan structural accents and the blue-black sky

  • White Balance: Auto, R: -2 / B: +4 -- cools the ambient base so warm light sources read as a deliberate accent

  • ISO: Auto (200-6400)

  • Exposure Comp.: -1 to -1 1/3 -- underexposes to protect the light pools and deepen the black sky


Lightroom / RAW Equivalent

This preset translates the same warm/cool duotone into adjustable RAW parameters -- a graphic, higher-contrast treatment than this archive's softer night recipes, built to hold a punchy amber-vs-teal split even on source photos that weren't shot after dark.

  • Profile: Adobe Color

  • Exposure: -0.35

  • Contrast: +28

  • Highlights: -55

  • Shadows: +10

  • Whites: -8

  • Blacks: -18

  • Temperature: -12

  • Tint: +4

  • Vibrance: +10

  • Saturation: +4

  • Clarity: +18

  • Dehaze: +6

  • Vignette: -20


Tone Curve

A deepened S-curve: blacks pulled down further than usual for a graphic crush, with the upper-mid/highlight region lifted to keep the light pools glowing rather than flat.

HSL / Color Mixer

  • Red Hue: 0, Red Saturation: -5

  • Orange Hue: +5, Orange Saturation: +15 (amber light pools pushed warmer and richer)

  • Yellow Hue: +8, Yellow Saturation: +10 (holds the sodium-vapor-style amber cast)

  • Green Hue: -10, Green Saturation: -20 (suppresses stray green from mixed urban lighting)

  • Aqua Hue: -10, Aqua Saturation: +20, Aqua Luminance: -5 (pushed toward teal, deepened)

  • Blue Hue: -15, Blue Saturation: +15, Blue Luminance: -15 (deepens the night sky, pushes it toward teal-blue)

  • Purple Hue: 0, Purple Saturation: -10

  • Magenta Hue: 0, Magenta Saturation: -10


Split Toning

  • Highlights Hue: 40, Highlights Saturation: 15 (amber/orange glow)

  • Shadows Hue: 195, Shadows Saturation: 12 (cyan-teal cast)

  • Balance: -15 (favors the shadow tone slightly, since the frame is shadow-dominant)


Detail

  • Sharpening: Amount 55, Radius 1.0, Detail 30, Masking 15

  • Noise Reduction: Luminance 18, Detail 50, Contrast 10, Color 30, Color Detail 60, Smoothness 50


Calibration

  • Red Primary Hue: -5, Red Primary Saturation: +5 (pushes red toward amber/orange)

  • Green Primary Hue: -10, Green Primary Saturation: -10 (tames a sodium-vapor green cast)

  • Blue Primary Hue: +10, Blue Primary Saturation: +10 (pushes blue toward teal/cyan)


These settings reproduce a graphic, high-contrast warm/cool duotone characteristic of elevated transit and urban night scenes -- a starting point for further creative adjustment. White balance is left as-shot on the Lightroom side; dial in coolness per scene, or match the camera recipe's WB shift (R-2/B+4).


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