Kodak Portra 400 35m 36exp Film Professional 5 Pack

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Using a two stop GND filter is a bad idea with a tree sticking so high into the sky as you’d end up seeing an obvious dark line, but you can always get away with a soft one stop filter and Portra can handle the difference. Below are a series of images all shot on Kodak Portra 400 film using a variety of cameras including the Canon AE-1, Pentax ME Super, and Canon AF35ML. What I did with these images was locked my shutter speed, ISO, focused, and adjusted a variable ND filter to get the exposure that I wanted. This means that it is known as a mid-speed film, and will be able to take photos in most common lighting situations. Here’s what the film looks like as the sun is starting to sort of set in Brooklyn, NY, and the clouds are rolling in.

Content contributor - become a part of the world’s biggest film and alternative photography community blog. This reduces some of the saturation in the sky, which often leans towards an unattractive cyan on Portra. The sample images were a mix of daylight and low light ambient lit images, the film did well in each with very fine grain observable at normal viewing distances. If you’re using the light meter in your camera, make sure the ISO on your camera is set to 200, and if you’re using a handheld light meter, make sure the ISO on that is set to 200. In that same tradition, the new Portra 400 Film is the ideal choice for portrait and fashion photography, as well as for nature, travel and outdoor photography, where the action is fast or the lighting can't be controlled.

Years and years ago, Kodak announced something that would endure for quite a while: Kodak Portra 400. Hopefully that will be one of the next emulsions back from the dead, that way I could actually be able to try it out!

For the image below, I wanted the building itself to render as a midtone so I focused on the center of it when taking my meter reading.Although the film is sharp, it doesn’t have a lot of fine detail and will show a touch more grain than Portra 400 despite being an ISO 100 film. It’s also true that using some of these less popular films may even help your photos to stand out from the crowd! With a wide range of exposures from bright light to low-light situations, you can create photos that are precisely how you want them. Despite leaning toward the cooler side of the spectrum, it still produces natural, pleasing skin tones, making Fujicolor 200 a great choice when you want to grab some candid shots of friends but don’t want to burn through all your expensive Portra 400. If you use an incident light meter and stand in the spot you want to “correctly” expose you will get fairly close.

Kodak Portra 400 is the film of Instagram, which is not always a sign of quality, but in this case, the hype is real. It’d be easy for people to see what film someone with more followers than you or I will ever have is shooting and be influenced to go with that too. With its sunny feel and colours and contrast that enhance a scene without making it unrealistic, Portra seems to deliver exactly what you envision. Kodak Portra 400 Overview: Kodak Portra 400 is an extremely versatile professional film available in 35mm and 120. Kodak Portra is fairly simple to use and, in my personal opinion, is the single most forgiving negative film on the market.

It’s highly valued for its muted tones–which tends to go against much of what digital photography seems to offer straight out of the camera. For this scene I average metered the ground and the sky separately, observing about a two stop difference between the two. As a film photographer who mostly shoots scenic views and my companions while traveling, I have used Kodak Portra 400 for years as it offers stunning color reproduction for outdoor scenes and skin tones. The image below is an older one that was scanned using the flatbed and using the editing techniques I outline on my blog. I don’t want anyone thinking that you need top end equipment to get solid results from a beautiful film like Portra, because that just isn’t true and my goal is to never make people feel as though gear make the image.

We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. If you spend thousands of dollars in film (or any camera equipment), and you make even 1 great photograph, it is worth it. Camera films with a high exposure tend to produce images with more grains as it captures crisp and sharp details in every lighting condition. Kodak Portra in larger formats tends to look a million times better than the 35mm format, though I should admit that the 35mm format can also hold its own very well.I think the imagers looks great I have Never used Portra but have used Ektachrome and Ektar in the pass and was very happy the results. This type of light is common during the golden hour where both the ground and sky have direct sunlight on them and the only variation in light is in the shadows in the subject. When I use Portra in medium format I almost always go with the 400 version as my goal is more of a general all-purpose landscape film and since I’m using a smaller camera it’s nice to have the option of hand holding it every now and then.