#Portra 800 35mm skin#
It’s difficult for a film with more vibrant, saturated colors to maintain skin tones, but Portra 800 walks that line perfectly! It’s also a wonderful stock for skin tones. It’s more similar to the vibrant colors of Kodak Ektar 100. Kodak Portra 800 will give you more saturated colors than either Portra 400 or Portra 160. After some fine tuning and learning to rate it between 200 and 400 ISO, I now love the results! Bright, punchy, beautiful colors! What To Expect From Portra 800 It’s a film that has a bit of a learning curve. I tried Kodak Portra 800 pretty early on, and, to be honest, I hated the results. There are just so many different options! In my first few months of shooting film, I shot and shot and shot, experimenting with various film stocks looking for my favorites.
#Portra 800 35mm how to#
I also love to rate Ilford HP5 several different ways depending on lighting conditions and you can check out the versatility of this film by clicking the link.Kodak Portra 800 Film Review by Jessica Loveįor me, choosing a film stock is like when you first get a digital camera and the POSSIBILITIES of HOW TO EDIT your photos hits you like crazy. What differences do you see? Which is your favorite? The Kodak Portra 800 rated 640 photo was taken in an adjacent field with less green. I can see a difference in skin tone but that may be attributed to the difference in the color of the field. I’m still quite surprised to see there is not much difference in exposure, colors, or contrast. A straight scan means that the photo lab doesn’t do any adjusting. Portra 800 film delivers best-in-its class underexposure latitude, with the ability to push to 1600 when you need extra speed. I asked them to re-scan one image from each roll and do a straight scan since I was testing exposure. I found out RPL tried to match up scans from the Kodak Portra 800 film rolls into one cohesive set since all rolls were submitted in one order. 🙂 Please see my straight-scan comparison I added at the end of the post.Īnd here are the same comparisons of Portra 800 in the shade with the last comparison on Kodak Portra 160 film p800 rated at 200, shot at f2.8 250! So develop a relationship with and love your lab. There is a 4-stop difference between the p800 rated at 800, shot at f2.8 1000 vs. I am also amazed at how well a good photo lab can make your film scans look consistent, even when rated differently. I really thought I would see more differences since rating the film at 200 is already two stops over box speed. Look at how forgiving Kodak Portra 800 is! I was blown away when I saw the results.
#Portra 800 35mm full#
This first comparison also shows how color and skin tones rendered in full sun with p800 and the last roll – Portra 160: (All rolls were developed and scanned by Richard Photo Lab.) I was impressed that for the most part that all four metering methods were giving me the same reading. How did I meter, you ask? For each roll, I compared four ways to meter: bulb-in 45 degrees, bulb-in in the darkest shadow of my subject, in-camera meter (+2) on subject’s forehead (I use the Pentax 645n), and the Sunny-16 rule. I shot part of the roll in full-sun and the second part in open shade to see which rating would give me the best results and best ideal shutter speeds for shooting locally. I shot five rolls of Kodak Portra 800 film rated at 800, 640, 400, 200 and Kodak Portra 160 rated at 160. I recruited my amazing, beautiful friend to be my model one sunny day at noon. Some film photographers said box speed, some said 640, some swore by 400, and a few even said 200! Feeling a bit overwhelmed, I decided to do my own test. I had been asking around how I should rate this in a full-sun situation. I’ve narrowed down my favorite outdoor film for shooting in Seattle (which tends to have blue/green light almost all the time) as gorgeous Kodak Portra 800 medium-format film. Different films render colors, highlights, and shadows in different ways. I am so completely hooked on everything about film photography – from the tonal range, the luminosity, the depth of field, the highlight retention, to the creamy skin tones!Ī huge part of getting a consistent ‘look’ with film, besides picking one lab to work with, is choosing your go-to film. A major business goal of mine this year is to be able to photograph family sessions with film 100% of the time this Fall.
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