Slipstream: A Fujifilm X100V Film Recipe (In-Camera JPEG + Lightroom/RAW Guide)
This one started with a style study of a curved, long-exposure light trail weaving between glass skyscrapers at dusk — golden motion-blur glowing against cool blue-grey glass towers and a hazy, fading sunset sky, with the lower architecture pulled into deep, controlled shadow. Slipstream is the recipe built to chase that mood: a cool-based, cinematic cityscape look with a warm, glowing accent left for motion and light.
Three frames from the 2026 Europe trip carry it here — a delivery cyclist blurring through a Paris street corner, a Rome rooftop skyline under a heavy sky, and the Seine's lock-covered bridges.
Fujifilm X100V Film Recipe
Eterna Bleach Bypass is the starting point — a naturally higher-contrast, partially desaturated cinematic simulation — pushed to keep just enough color in the amber light-trail accents and the cool glass reflections, while the surrounding architecture reads dark and controlled.
Film Simulation: Eterna Bleach Bypass — cinematic, higher-contrast, partially desaturated base, a first for this archive.
Dynamic Range: DR400 — needed for the spread between glowing highlights and dark building undersides.
Highlight Tone: -2 — softens bloom so highlights glow without hard-clipping.
Shadow Tone: +2 — keeps a sliver of detail in deep architectural shadow rather than a full block crush.
Color: +2 — nudges saturation back up against Eterna Bleach Bypass's aggressive default desaturation.
Sharpness: 0 — neutral, cinematic rather than soft or digitally crisp.
Noise Reduction: -3 — leaves a little texture rather than smoothing it away.
Grain Effect: Weak, Small — fine, cinema-stock-like grain.
Color Chrome Effect: Strong — deepens the warm accent color in brighter, saturated stretches.
Color Chrome FX Blue: Strong — richens the cool blue-grey glass and dusk sky.
White Balance: Auto, R: -2, B: +4 — cools the ambient base so warm accents read as deliberate.
ISO: Auto (160–6400)
Exposure Comp.: -1/3 to -1 — underexposed to protect highlights and deepen the mood.
Lightroom Preset (JPEG / RAW)
The RAW/Lightroom translation leans on a cooler base temperature and a firmer highlight pull than most of this archive, with clarity and dehaze pushed up to keep architecture crisp against the softer glow of any motion blur in the frame.
Profile: Adobe Color
Exposure: -0.25
Contrast: +28
Highlights: -55
Shadows: -10
Whites: -8
Blacks: -8
Temperature: -8
Tint: +2
Vibrance: -22
Saturation: -10
Clarity: +18
Dehaze: +12
Vignette: -20
Tone Curve
A moderately contrasty curve — a small lift right at the shadow toe to avoid a hard black clip, a slight pull-down through the darks and lights for a cinematic feel, and a firmer pull-down in the highlights to protect the brightest accents from clipping to pure white.
HSL / Color Mixer
Red Hue +5, Saturation -10
Orange Hue -5, Saturation +15 (protects/boosts the amber accent color)
Yellow Hue -10, Saturation +5
Green Hue -15, Saturation -30
Aqua Hue +10, Saturation +15
Blue Hue +15, Saturation +10, Luminance -10
Purple Hue 0, Saturation -10
Magenta Hue 0, Saturation -10
Split Toning
Highlights: Hue 40, Saturation 18 (warm gold). Shadows: Hue 205, Saturation 15 (cool blue). Balance: -10, weighted slightly toward the warm highlight glow against a cool overall base.
Detail
Sharpening — Amount 45, Radius 1.0, Detail 30, Masking 15. Noise Reduction — Luminance 12, Detail 50, Contrast 0, Color 25, Color Detail 50, Smoothness 50. Grain — Amount 18, Size 22, Roughness 35 (fine, cinema-stock-like).
Calibration
Red Primary Hue -5, Saturation +5. Green Primary Hue -10, Saturation -5. Blue Primary Hue +10, Saturation +10.
White balance is left as-shot in the Lightroom preset — dial in a cool base per scene, or match the in-camera recipe's WB shift (R-2 / B+4).
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