T.A. Vieira Photography

Las Vegas Portrait, Beauty and Cultural Photography

Fuji X-T1 & X100T – My Camera Settings

By

After my last video talking about the quality of the JPEG files out of these Fuji X series cameras, several photographers asked if I could share the way that I set my X-T1 and X100T up so that I could get the type of JPEG image that I liked.

Wow, first of all the video ran a little longer than I had planned. I kind of rehashed the JPEG and RAW conversation again, so my apologies for that, but I guess I just had a little bit more to say and I think it’s some worthwhile stuff. 🙂

I do throw in some exposure settings I commonly use for street shooting at night, but this is just one style of photography I do, and exposure settings can and do change for every style of photography I shoot. 

Anyway, in a nutshell, here is the way I’m setting things up in-camera to get the look I like!

Highlights: +2
Shadows: +2
Sharpness: +1
White Balance: Auto

Color Film Simulation: Classic Chrome (man!!) 😉

Black and White Film Simulation: Monochrome + Green Filter

Here’s a shot of the Q menu on my X-T1

camera-settings-2048

 

I mentioned Fuji X-Photographer, Kevin Mullins in the video. Here’s a link to his sites:

Wedding Photographry: http://www.kevinmullinsphotography.co.uk/
Street Photography: http://f16.click/

Even if you don’t think you like wedding photography, still check out Kevin’s work. I’m not crazy about wedding photography, but I love Kevin’s work. 

 

  • SaywellHQ

    Really good Ted, I too am not a big fan of colour, I struggle to get the right balance and often I find it looks too much. I love the CC in the Fuji, I also add +1 or +2 to the colour for CC which can add a nice punch.

    • Thanks so much, man! Very cool, I’ll have to try bumping up the color in CC and see what happens. 🙂 Thanks again!

  • Rep

    And then in your screenshot, sharpness is set to +1

    • Hey, thanks very much, just noticed the typo in the post. Thanks again!

  • Lars Tjusberg

    I’m sorry if this is a stupid question but how does the +2 on both highlights and shadows affect the photo. Does it preserve highlights or blow them out, and for the shadows does it mean that you make it darker or lighter. Trying to get the grip of this in relation to the DR setting as well.

    • Hey Lars, not a stupid question at all, man. Yeah, with the highlights, there is always a chance that if you’re exposure is set a bit high that you could blow out the highlights. I haven’t really seen problems with this, but even if some highlights do get blown out, depending on what it is, but usually I’m not bothered by that too much – unless it really takes away from the image.

      For the shadows, +2 does darken/deepen the shadow tones in the image – which I love! I used to like to pull a little more detail up in the shadows, but I’ve changed a bit and kind of prefer deeper shadows – a little more emotional/dramatic impact in the photo.

      For DR I just leave that at 100. I like that level for contrast. Thanks very much, Lars!

  • sosic

    My photos after this article (straight from my x-t10): http://imgur.com/a/qaRoI
    Man! :)))
    Thanks Ted!

    • Wow, sweet! Very nice, sosic – what lens? 10-24? Cool shots, man – punchy!

      • No, It’s the 8mm f2.8 Rokinon aka Samyang. I love ultra wide and I love primes so I’m really missing a fujinon 10 or 12. 🙂 I just switched from Nikon to Fuji and I’ve got only the fujinon 18, 35 and 27. On My list there is the 14 and 56mm so I hope to get them sometime this year 🙂

        Thank You for your comment and tutorials, I’ll be doing some more street photography, maybe some night shots soon 😉

  • GREGG HARRIS

    What is largest quality picture you made shooting with xt1
    Thanks
    Gregg harris

  • Nelson Rato

    Hi Ted,
    Do you still using the same settings for classic chrome and acros in the XPro 2 ??
    Thanks

Stay Connected