Rainy day time with X Raw Studio
Photography![Screenshot of a photo in X Raw Studio](https://cdn.scribbles.page/rails/active_storage/representations/proxy/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBaEZRIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--1465055a1675e55ee05945e3752b14d6e6b00d25/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdDRG9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJY0c1bkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJQUNHa0NBQVk2Q25OaGRtVnlld1k2REhGMVlXeHBkSGxwWkE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoidmFyaWF0aW9uIn19--9b3ff7424923b92e765ab2843c07c62ea3d7905e/image.png)
I don't think I'd like it as my primary workflow tool, but I do love X Raw Studio for modeling in-camera effects on a Fujifilm camera.
You hook up your camera (it becomes a very expensive image co-processor), load up a raw file in the software, and have access to all the in-camera settings you'd find on the camera itself: You can cycle between film simulations, tone settings, etc. then name and save the preset to your camera.
Whenever a new simulation lands, I'm always squinting and trying to make sense of how it fits in with all the others. With X Raw Studio, it's simple to cycle through all of them and compare.
I also find it helpful for figuring out monochrome settings, because there are all those color filter variants on Acros, and they interact differently with different tones. It's helpful to take a set of images and work through the four Acros variants and fiddle with the shadow/highlight tone controls. I came across a Gordon Parks video gallery today that had me thinking about all the different monochrome styles I like, from his, to Daido Moriyama's to Mary Ellen Mark's. I like using X Raw Studio to help me think about what I'm seeing and appreciating in each, and how to translate it.
I'm not ready to completely discard my raw orientation, but I continue to think about what I'm trying to do with my photography. This afternoon I just thought about a few of my photographic moods and committed them to presets. I never really set that up on my X-T5, but now they're there, and the camera's set up to send raws to one slot and jpegs to the other.