I went from shooting everything in raw to shooting everything in jpeg using a custom recipe based on classic chrome. Then created a preset from scratch that I use as a starting point to edit them with in Lightroom. Results are amazing

Every time it's a joy to see Your work and how passionate You are. That's a wow effect for me.

Hi Omar. I really liked how you showed some different jpg results from your camera, great stuff. I particularly enjoyed when you were talking about the different values for colors, saturation and highlights you added to different profiles. Are there any common profile recipes that you lean towards? Have you done any videos were you talk about the different colors and settings you have made for the different profiles? Great stuff! Looking forward to part 2

I recently got a XT3 and I feel you man. Some images come out of the camera so pretty! Even if the photo isn’t all that, the colors are almost always nice to look at.

Definitely would love to see how you edit JPEGs. Love your passion for the Fuji JPEGs.

This is the start of my fifth year of shooting with Fuji cameras and I still often look at the jpegs and get excited about how awesome the colors are ... in the 10 years of shooting with a Canon that never happened, not knocking Canon...but I just love using Fuji cameras.

Great shots Omar, I especially was wowed by the one with the old classic cars at Universal.

How do you not have every single photographer following your channel? I don't even shoot Fuji, but I love the quality of your productions and the audio is always MASTERFUL. And, you provide a ton of advice and inspire the love of shooting PICTURES! You really inspire me to minimize my pixel-peeping, technical detailing nitpicking and just enjoy my gear. Which tempts me to join Fuji! Lol. We'll see. Great work, as always.

Thank you for such wonderfully passionate, funny and knowledgeable videos! I'm researching Fujis and trying to decide on what to purchase :) keep up the awesome work!!

I love everyone of these photos. Very nice work.

Great work Omar, as always. Thank you!

Really enjoyed your photographs, keep these great videos coming. It’s quite nice to see how the different lenses render jpegs without being a lens review.

Amazing! Thank you 🙏 Definitely need to hear more on this topic 😬

I took more notes from this episode than any other of anyone’s. I can’t wait to go outside to shoot this weekend. Thank you, Omar!

Love your videos Omar. You’re quite a character.Brilliant mate Cheers👍

The frog shots, the pigeon and the shoe were excellent! I always shot in raw until my X-E1 and it only got better from there.

Another awesome video, Omar! As an avid RAW-shooter / Lightroom editing control freak, this inspires me to have more fun shooting J'peg 🙃 and take advantage of those film simulations. The vintage car photo is my favorite! 🙌

A few months shooting with Fuji and absolutely love the jpegs. The film simulations are beautiful and makes shooting fun everyday life.

Great detail on which film simulations...looking forward to the next video on editing JPEGs. Thanks Omar

That shot you did with The Honda looks fantastic and also The old big American car. I like your videos very much.👍❤️

Omar I always find your videos very interesting and helpful. I have anXT3 and an XPro 3 and try to use just my iPad for organising and editing photos rather than my old MacBook,. I am trying various recipes for custom film simulated JPEGs as well as taking RAW. I set the cameras to save RAW on one SD card and JPEGs on the other and Import the JPEGs into Photos on the iPad and separately import the RAW (if the shots justify if ) into a Files folder on the iPad (backing up in iCloud), and import them into LR . This means I can do a few quick light edits on the decent JPEGs and put them into shared albums in Photos and can do more serious edits in LR and save them back into Files as DNG or TIFF for printing etc. These are saved in two places, Files in iCloud and in the Adobe cloud. This workflow is particularly useful because the family aren’t interested in my “artistic” photos but like to see the family shots quickly! I don’t know if you think this makes sense. Thanks Philip.

1st comment here, looked and liked a lot 😀, amazing and genuine videos that you are making, on top of being very informative. Inspiring 👏👏👏

Omar iv been subbed to you since you were at about 20k subs. I don't comment really at all just wanted to tell you that you deserve the success and traction thats starting to come your way. Amazingly entertaining and informative videos. I loved the picture of the purple flowers from Tel-Aviv. I actually recognized it as Israel before you said so, the Jerusalem stone and the architecture is unlike anywhere else. If you're ever back in Israel send me a message if you want some amazing places to shoot that most tourists would never find.

My favourite is Astia and it works wonders with the skin tone. I always use highlight -2 and shadow -1 with clarity +2. For portraits I find shadow +1, +2 etc, can make faces look a bit harsh/old :-)

You’re the man. Sick jpegs.

I so like that you come from a photographer‘s standpoint, not of a technician‘s. So this is again an awesome clip for it is treating just the way we can make use of the film simulations. As much as I sat down with LR in the past, I’ve completely changed to rely on the film styles, when I shifted gradually to Fujifilm. I love to shoot pro negative or Acros, but now you make me happily sink into tweaking all those other possibilities. That said I replaced my Canon gear with Sony for the serious and commission work and Leica with Fuji for my shooting lust. I ended up with xt20 XF16/1.4, XF 52/1.2, XF 35/1.4 (man, where do I get so fast lenses so compact and affordable?) and I like the XF 18-55 for its wonderful colors. This last lens is weak in resolution and a Bit mushy in the corners , but wow! it’s got the most beautiful colours of any lens I’ve ever owned. Last thing: Tel Aviv is the place for photography and the Dizengof square and the beach are the places for photography in Tel Aviv! You’re clips are inspiring and heart warming. Keep up the good work, Omar!

Your candid shots are SO good! Right now my only lens is the 16/1.4 which I loooove. For family/candid portrait-y stuff would you go for the 35/1.4 next or the 56/1.2? I want something with the same kind of vibe to the image, but tighter. I ruled out the 23/1.4 because I don't think it's enough of a difference in focal length...

Ahh can we talk about the Canon Jpeg at the start?! Colors of the Oranges and Fruit bowl... Wow!!! Love the video, looking forward to the follow-up.

Very informative, for a newbie like me in fuji system. Tks!

Can you maybe do a little like tutorial for someone moving from jpeg to Raw? Maybe what you need to do after opposed to jpeg, as in software or what you need to transfer files because I honestly found that to be a little intimidating. I wound up just converting them to jpeg because I had no idea what to do. I couldn't open the files on my Mac nor bring them to my phone. For those of us who are too embarrassed to ask anyone lol------Also, thank you for your hard work.

You bring up some very interesting points that I hadn't thought about before. I was forever a Canon shooter only because no matter what I could rely on the buttons/menus etc essentially being the same/similar, and of course once you buy into the lenses... However I am always editing my jpegs! Ugh I hate how the pics look (even from my mobile phone) because it's not how my eye sees it. Now I've bought into the Sony system (because of the color science and video), but I am still just learning the system. Like you, I like vibrant colors but I also love black and white and the graininess of traditional film b&w.

Please do part two. I’d love to learn more.

Great photos!

Been watching your channel for a while, but this is the first video that has really proved your photography skills! I love the pigeons and classic cars, especially. I've been shopping for a used X100, to see if I like the camera style for street photography, would you recommend going with an older one like the S or T? Trying to figure out which one has the best value to price ratio, though I'm pretty sure I'd even be happy with the original X100...

Man you’re making me wanna experiment with jpegs more! This video and the “noir camera” has made me set up my X-T100 to shoot only jpeg. Speaking of jpeg, I wish Fuji cameras let us shoot in losses formats like tiff or png. I guess that is only important if you edit jpegs, but I don’t like the idea of re-saving the jpegs and applying even more compression. I would like to have the best image quality possible for my non-raw files, I guess is what I’m saying.

Excellent video, nicely presented, great information,

It's a good thing you have several spots to save custom settings.. Check out the custom film settings there are a few sites dedicated to those classic film recipes. That is why I love Fujifilm.

I freaking love your videos I’m not even kidding.

You are funny Omar! Keep doing it.

Omar, Here’s a vote for the follow on video to this you said you might make. Am about to buy another fuji just to be able to play with the jpegs ala’ Fujifilm X Weekly and others preset tinkering advice. Thanks, Craig

that car photo!!!! so amazing.

Yes please on the JPEG info. ❤️ Your channel!

Hi Omar, great Fuji video again... Hehehe Just a few questions... So what is/are your favourite film Sims, do you choose the film sim to use depending on the scene you are at? I bought my Fuji XT2 exactly because of the JPEGs SOOC, altough I always shoot RAW + Provia, CC or Acros with no tweaks I tend to just slightly edit the JPEGs (most of the times in Snapseed) and rarely use the RAW files, except if its a landscape, a long exposure or some kind of more professional photo (these are este for me) that I have the need to extract more info from the file... And I think that is the beauty of mirrorless cams and Fuji cams in particular, I find the JPEGs so great right at bat, that even in my concert photo gigs I seldom rarely use RAW files. And to get the better of those Fuji hardcore fans, I got all the Fuji Sims recipes as presets in Fuji X RAW studio hehehehe.. (Just one small edit, that I forgot) All the best for you and your family, eager to see your next video, this one has my like already 👍👍👍

I learned a lot from your video, and its time to subscribe. thank you sir.

I usually shoot film, I have since I started taking photos decades ago now. I've been taking a break from film and opted to go Fuji mostly for the film simulations and multiple manual focus aids outside of peaking. I've found that just by bringing over a lot of the discipline of shooting film you can get generally get the image you want right out of the camera. I picked up a used X-T30 to experiment, but I'm keeping an eye out for a good deal on a secondhand x-pro3 after holding and shooting with one for a day. I'm no stranger to pushing and pulling film while developing negatives. Also if I'm in the darkroom I use most of the tricks available when exposing prints. In the same way, I enjoy the freedom that RAW gives when it comes to post-processing. That said, I'm from the school of thought where I want to capture the shot I want with the camera, not a basic neutral exposure preserving information to then manipulate later on. That's what's great about shooting both, you get that flexibility later on if you really want it. Otherwise, just tweak the jpeg like pushing/pulling film changing a bit of contrast/saturation and you're good to go.

I just go to the excellent Fuji X Weekly blog and shoot jpeg using those custom settings. Ritchie Roesch does all the hard work for me!

Another Great Video, Thank Omar for sharing with us! If possible you think you can make a Video about Camera and Lens Maintenance? Thanks in Advance :)

I am stuck to PRO Neg. and Classic Chrome most of the time. But I also fell in love with Recipes trying to copy the look of old film like Kodachrome. I now tend to choose one simulation in the morning and then stick with it, like I was using actual film.

Man as soon as I saw that pigeon, I knew that was home... 🇵🇷 I've been shooting 95% jpg on my X100F, no regrets!

It would so great to know what colour settings you had for the frog, considering you said it looked just like that.

I am still using my fuji XT20 after 4 years it is still pristine! I recently unboxed new lens for it on my channel Love Omar! You inspired me since I got my XT20

I do the same thing with bumping the exposure down a smidge to protect the highlights. Most of my photos these days are quick grabs on the fly (that was my travel photography life as well - no time to stop, family is on the move, take the shots you see and go). No time to get it right on the spot. Unexpected takeaway question: Does foliage have 2 or 3 syllables?

This is a very good tutorial (with nice photos), thank you for taking the time. I don’t know where your sister lives, but the best falafel is in Afula. (I don’t know what that has to do with jpegs LOL). Stay safe Omar.

1:53 Fuji puts every setting into the photo metadata! Drop it into an online metadata reader and you can find every setting down to the white balance shifts!

Great images Omar. A lot of ‘wow’ images for sure. Do you always shoot raw + jpeg? Is it just a conscious decision to shoot just jpeg or are all of these from raw + jpeg sets?

Pretty nice. As well, kindly say a word or two about how to avoid further compression while editing jpegs and saving them again. Lol.

I loved this video! I am looking for light, traveling, and professional family photography. Which model I should get?? I am looking into Fujifilm, and Sony. I used to be Canon shooter but I sold it a year and a half ago.

Can you put a video together showing what film simulations you use based on subject matter. Thanks

Last week I was rediscovering my X-T20 by just using the JPEGs and not touching the RAW files. (I saw somewhere that the in-camera JPEG processing is different from when you change the film simulation with Lightroom). The workflow is much simpler and faster (I could just import directly to Apple Photos). I'm curious for your next video, to know your opinion on when it is better to just re-edit the JPEG or re-edit using the RAW file.

Last photograph is stellar. I want to hang it on my wall!

wow that pigeon shot is amazing

everyone is commenting on the universal studio shot but the shots of family are stand outs and inspired me to document friends/family more, I tend to shoot landscapes, action, still life...

Without exception, every time I watch one of your videos, I go get my xt20 and get motivated to shoot.

I don't edit my jpegs because I am lazy, but ironically it takes so much more forethought to get to the same place. There is no set recipe for all kinds of light. Some light is naturally more contrasty and flatter colour, some light is dirty green and hazy, etc. The hardest light I have had to deal with is when I was living in Kyoto for a summer. The silvery haze that got trapped by the mountains was like a greasy soft box everyday. Different places on the planet have vastly different light. The sun does not shine the same on all of us. So I end up setting a general idea of a daylight recipe when I arrive to a place, and then tweak on the fly for the changes in light as they happen. ✌️

The provia with lighting is very nice

shooting RAW only and using Fujifilm X Raw Studio to create jpegs rn until I can figure out colors that I like

Fuji Xt30 firmware update now available, so have a Webcam option 😁

In term of colors, Fuji x100 before they moved to xTran sensor is the best. The auto focus is unreliable though even with all the firmware upgrade.

...boy, I need to use Provia more.

Very interesting video. I wonder if you have had an opportunity to use Fuji X Raw Studio and your thoughts. It could be very useful when making small adjustments. Thanks

If you master your camera, they all shoot amazing jpgs 😉 I shoot raw, because sometimes I do make mistakes 😅

Which fujifilm camera would you recommend? Small compact. I currently have R5 and need a travel camera.

Those peppers are called "Pimientos del Padrón"

I’m guessing that you’re using manual white balance, for most of your outdoors images set to sunlight-standard? You can’t shoot a scene with as much green as some of the ones you show, without using a manual white balance setting - thoughts?

Quite a few people pronounce it as “foilage”, but PSA for everyone, it is foliage!

I have a full camera kit with lenses and all... but I kinda want a Fuji 100v so that I don’t have any lens to change and shoot jpegs for a while. I think I got to point that too much gear isn’t letting me go out to shoot 😩😩 what a dumb problem to have 🤦🏽‍♂️ I hope you compare xe4 vs 100v ...trying to decide which to get

Can you please link the video where you adjust the jpegs? Tkx man

Nice Video. Question, Why do you still need to drop the brightness of Fujifilm? as far as i know, Fuji is slightly darker than other cameras. I don't shoot Fuji, but seen so many videos, the image is slightly darker.

Hi Omar! At 10:10 You mean the GFX100 right? Not the X100 or X100S? Also in the bottom right corner it says GFX100? I was just confused by the number of pixels as well? Best regards

Correction: The photo at 10:03 is from the GFX 100. I said x100s. Also, try to catch this on a 4k TV...

Omar :) @ 10:30 seems a gfx, not a x100 :P. Based on the info up left.

When on Fuji I just take raws since CaptureOne converts them as they would be taken in camera as jpeg. At least when I did shoot both (RAW + jpeg) and converted raw to jpeg they looked the same. And I can not decide on spot what simulation to use! Hm, maybe time to upgrade to X-S10 and roll that left dial :D

A good way to explore the film simulations is to shoot in raw, then use in- camera jpeg conversion. This gives you genuine Fuji jpegs, not Adobe’s interpretation.

Fun. 👍🏾

Do you use lightroom for editing Fuji photos ?

Omar, have you gotten around to trying any of the "film simulation recipes" people have put together to emulate other classic film styles?

Bạn có thể chia sẻ thông số những tấm ảnh jpeg trong video này được không? hightlight tone ? shadow tone? color? và whitebalance? xin cảm ơn.

I would LIKE to view part 2. OK?

Hello Omar, great video! I notice that you struggled a lit bit trying to remember the Film Simulation and the settings used when you captured the images. There is a great tool that can help you get all those details, ExifTool by Phil Harvey - exiftool.org. This little tool can give all the information that your Fujifilm camera stores on the RAF and JPEG including the Film Simulation. If you open the Fujifilm jpeg in Lightroom or Capture One, do an edit and export, some of the data will be lost! I hope you find this information useful and keep up the good work. PS: All this information was sent to you on twitter. :D

Fuji stated that their film simulations get tweaked for every new processor that comes out so that’s why the film simulations don’t look exactly the same per generation.

next time your'e in tel aviv hit me up man! well do a street shoot and go to humous!

Just picked up a X-T1. And noticed while shooting in the film simulations it still shoots raw. Now that’s what I want... BUT is that universal with the more modern bodies? Are you able to shoot raw while using film simulations with say.... the X-pro 2 or 3? That being said... your images are lovely!

Doesn’t going +1 on the shadows make them darker rather than lighter? On my X-T3 that is certainly the case as I have a weird preset with +4 on both shadows and highlights for a mega contrasty look. Great video as always though :)

9:29 35mm 1.2 I want that! haha

I want that motorcycle

My go-to explanation on JPEG/RAW is to say a jpg can go from color to black & white, but RAW can go B&W to color.

I shoot jpg and post-process as raw images. My tests show you benefit greatly. Raise the bit depth to 16 bit before editing.

Is it that bad if I shoot jpeg only?

Do you use a polarizer to get that blue sky?

Help! Hola Omar!.......I am about to buy my first lens apart from the kit (18-55). I am between 23mm and 35mm. Which one would you recommend?......I'm somewhat tangled between these two