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 recipes are drawn from both the site and the Film Recipes App, ordered first by how closely each recipe was designed to capture the people & portraits character — from direct interpretations through to inspired-by looks — and then by popularity within each group. App-only recipes are included and marked 🔒.
Portrait & People Film Simulation Recipes
These 100 recipes are a selection from a much larger people & portraits collection. The full set — all 167 — is available in the Film Recipes App for iOS and Android.