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Kodak Portra 400 look

The portrait film: soft contrast and warm skin, with greens and blues kept calm.

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A woman with freckles in hard sun — Portra 400
Portra 400 on Portra Endura, with fine grain. Freckled skin in hard sun stays warm and soft.Photo: Saul Joseph / Pexels.

The same four photographs

Every film page shows the same four photographs, so you can compare films from page to page. Press Before Photonica to see them as they were taken.

A woman with freckles in hard sun — Portra 400
Skin in daylight
Green hills under a deep blue sky with clouds — Portra 400
Greens and sky
A wet New York avenue at night in neon and streetlight — Portra 400
Night, mixed light
A woman in a yellow dress at golden hour — Portra 400
Against the light

On three papers

A negative is printed, and the paper sets the final colour and contrast: the same frame on Portra Endura, Ultra Endura and Kodak 2383.

A woman with freckles in hard sun — Portra 400, Portra Endura
Portra EnduraA neutral portrait paper.
A woman with freckles in hard sun — Portra 400, Ultra Endura
Ultra EnduraA vivid paper: richer colour and stronger contrast.
A woman with freckles in hard sun — Portra 400, Kodak 2383
Kodak 2383A cinema print film: muted colour and deeper shadows.

Where it shines

People in daylight and open shade. Portra keeps detail from bright skin to shadow and leans greens a little warm, so the person stays the subject.

What to watch

Low sun goes more orange than you saw, as the backlit portrait shows. For more contrast and colour, print it on Ultra Endura.

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The Portra 400 profile is derived from spektrafilm by Andrea Volpato, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Photonica is not affiliated with Kodak or Fujifilm. Licenses

Photographs: Saul Joseph, Пельмешик, kevin Galerken and DARKMODE CINEMA on Pexels.