Arpit Phillips photographer & producer

Spaces, Lifestyle, and the colour science behind them

Architecture, Lifestyle Photographer & Fujifilm Recipe Creator

I photograph architecture, interiors, hospitality, lifestyle and portfolios. I also build the imaging tools I use, and write about why they work.

57Fujifilm recipes
33knowledge articles
X-T5, X100VI, X-H2and every X-Trans V body

Two things happen here

Commissioned photography

Hotels and resorts, restaurants and bars, architecture, interiors, lifestyle and portfolios, photographed so they read the way they feel to stand in.

Available for independent commissions in India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

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Fujifilm recipes

Fujifilm film simulation recipes derived from the manufacturer's own datasheets, then checked against real film scans. Built on the X-T5, and they transfer unchanged to the X100VI, X-H2 and X-T50. Published under the NaroLabs name.

The research is free to read in full. The settings are in the packs.

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NaroLabs

A red double-decker bus and a black-and-yellow taxi on a near-empty Mumbai street at first light, a domed heritage building behind them AP's Portra A floodlit neoclassical pediment at night, its carved crest above lettering reading Fort Heritage, in high-contrast black and white Kodak Tri-X 400 The curved blue-and-white corner tower of an Art Deco hotel against a pale, clouded sky AP's Portra Low sun flaring down a narrow alley between two buildings, reflected in the puddles on the wet ground, in black and white Kodak Tri-X 400 A black-and-yellow taxi parked on a rain-soaked street below a stone colonial facade screened by trees AP's Portra A dust-covered car left between two others on a leaf-strewn street, in black and white Kodak Tri-X 400

How the recipes get made

Most film simulation recipes are settings someone liked, passed along with a name attached. Every original recipe here traces back to something checkable: a manufacturer's characteristic curve, an RMS granularity figure, and for the top tier, real film scans analysed frame by frame against the camera's output.

Built and validated on the X-T5. Because the X100VI, X-H2 and X-T50 use the identical X-Trans CMOS 5 HR sensor, every recipe transfers to them unchanged. X-Trans IV bodies — the X-T4, X-S10, X-S20, X-E4, X-Pro3, X-T30 II and X100V — need the one documented conversion.

The bank, film by film

Colour, cinema, black and white and designed looks, each with the reasoning behind every setting.

The knowledge layer

Why film cannot be faked in post, what each control does, and how the validation works.

The writing

Essays on colour science and film chemistry: the reasoning underneath the recipes.

NaroLabs on YouTube

Recipes, how they get made, and postcard-style films.

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