Kodak Portra 400

can't wait to see more of your work

Cool. thanks. I just read a few other posts and wrote another question on the other post but I think I'm understand your concepts better, that you have to adjust the temps according to the lighting situation. but how do we know we're getting the right colors for what the film sim is supposed to emulate? yo uahd mentioned that using the auto white balance won't get us to the actually film sim that's based on the actual film so best not to use it but how do we know where the correct film look is with the manual settings? It seems like we'll never get it exact. unless we know what the film sims' native color temp is based on. for instance, Porta 400 is a daylight film. do we start with 4000k and its correpsonding olor filter during the day to know what it should actually look like and then when we shoot in the evening we can adjust accordingly? i guess what i'm asking is which color temp/filter combo do we start with in which lighting situation? I hope this makes sense.

Yep, exactly like that. You got it!

Most film simulations are Daylight Balanced. So to get acurate results you either take a couple shots daytime to get aquinted with the look it supposed to have, and then adjust it nightime.

`Or you can check my blog or the internet for sample images of how the Film Simulation should look like. The Blog is work in progress, only a couple Film sims are presented there, but in time I will add more articles for each Film Recipe.

One more thing, there are 2 types of film recipes on the website, the one's replicating real film like Kodachrome 64, Kodak Portra400 and so on, and Original Film Recipes which are not made to replicate any real film, they were created by my own taste to give you more interesting looks than your regular Sony Picture Profiles.

Each has multiple color settings, and each color settings will give a sligtly different color variation or mood.