Kodak Portra - Photography Help Forum

Portait films aren't nessicarilly tuned to cerntain skin tones. The characteristics of good portrait film is that it have neutral color rendition, and relativly low contrast. Color rendition of course wants to be neutral since you don't ussually want people to have color casts (that aren't part of their skin tone). Low contrast is good because people generally look better with lower contrast, and lower contrast films don't saturate color as quickly (particularly reds, the color of most skin imprefections), so skin imprefections are more subtle. Lower contrast also helps with getting good detail in a brides white dress, and her grooms black tux. If kodak Max works for you, and gives you the result you want, that's the more desirable film. Personally I find Max to be pretty grainy in comparison to pro films (such as portra from Kodak, or NPS and NPH from fuji), and I don't like the color, I think it's a bit too saturated for people which is what I ussually use color neg films for. Hope that helps make things a little more clear.

Peter

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