Kodak Portra Pro, Portra 400 Film Recipe

Yet another Kodak Portra 400 film recipe, this time based on PRO Neg Standard

Kodak Portra Pro

There are a good number of Kodak Portra recipes to consider when choosing one to shoot your photos with. Each recipe site seems to have at least one, and I certainly have a few interpretations as well. So why this recipe when there are already several others?

The short answer was that I became inspired. I was looking at the excellent images of expiredbren who shoots with Portra 400, Kodak Gold and Tri-X. In his Portra images, I was taken with the tone of the images and felt that even though I had made one previous attempt to mimic them with my Aged Kodak Portra film recipe, there was something different about his latest work.

In a break from tradition, I started with the PRO Neg Standard film simulation, and tweaked the white balance and colour shifts until I was happy that the tone was a close match. As is common for Portra recipes, overexposure is part of the look too, so make sure to do this when you use it. Oh, and for some softness, there is negative sharpening and a small amount of negative clarity too. It’s not a deal breaker to skip this last feature, if you get bugged out by the delay in saving images.

Kodak Portra Pro Film Recipe Settings

Film Simulation	PRO Neg.
Grain Effect	Weak, Large
Colour Chrome Effect	Strong
Colour Chrome Blue	Off
White Balance	Daylight, +5 Red, ‑6 Blue
Dynamic Range	DR200
Highlights	‑1
Shadows	0
Colour	‑4
Sharpness	‑3
ISO Noise Reduction	‑4
Clarity	‑1
EV Compensation	+1