7 Fujifilm Recipes to Replace RAW Editing

Sailboat at Nyhavn – Copenhagen, Denmark – Fujifilm GFX100RF – Vivid Velvia By moving the creative process from the computer to the camera, Fujifilm Recipes can effectively replace RAW editing for many photographers. Instead of spending hours adjusting curves and sliders after the fact, you make the aesthetic decisions before even pressing the shutter. The colors, contrast, grain, white balance, and overall mood become part of the act of photography itself. Some people—gatekeepers—insist that RAW editing is the only serious path because it offers maximum flexibility, but maximum flexibility isn’t always the best path. Sometimes, limitations improve art. One of the great benefits of Recipes is freedom—freedom from the computer and Lightroom (or other RAW editing software), freedom from indecisive aesthetic choices, freedom from unfinished work (such as RAW files just sitting around waiting to be edited). Most photographs that are created using Recipes are finished the moment that…