Film recipes suited to portraits and people photography
Skin tones are one of the hardest things to get right with a film recipe — push the colour too hard and faces look unnatural, go too flat and the result is lifeless. These recipes have been chosen for how they handle people as subjects, whether in formal portraits, street photography or documentary shooting.
Astia is a natural starting point for this category — it was designed for portraiture — but several of the Kodak-inspired and natural colour recipes also work very well. The common thread is a treatment of skin tones that looks flattering without looking processed.
These 40 portrait and people recipes are drawn from across the site and the Film Recipes App and ranked by user popularity and skin tone handling. The app holds a larger selection of portrait-friendly recipes — app-only entries are included here and flagged. Available on iOS and Android.
Portrait & People Film Simulation Recipes
These are the highest-rated recipes from the site and app combined. There are a further 85 recipes in this category exclusively in the Film Recipes App — browse them alongside the full library of 800+ recipes on iOS and Android.