Cafe film portrait recipe

**Step 1: Open FXN R** Start on FXN R for soft warm film. Skip CCD flash — cafe portraits want ambient window light. **Step 2: Sit by the window** Side light from a cafe window is the whole recipe. Backlight can work if faces stay readable. **Step 3: Shoot portraits and table details** Alternate face frames with cups, trays, and hands. Threads cafe dumps mix both. **Step 4: Hold the ‘expensive tone’ lightly** Do not stack heavy preset contrast. Soft midtones beat plastic beauty filters that erase film texture. **Step 5: Build a small set** 5–8 frames, gallery auto-save, post as a quiet dump rather than one cropped selfie.

Overlaps soft Korean film and 90s Japan recipes on FXN R — this page owns cafe / portrait / ‘máy đắt’ tone language from Threads. Optional H Glow vignette only.