Film Emulation

It’s perfectly fine to emulate a film look in digital photography. Film is expensive.

Nothing beats the real thing, but we can get close.

Really Nice Images, or RNI, offers excellent emulation plugins and demos a free Portra 400 profile.

If film emulation causes us to emphasize the look of film over subject matter, it’s a win for photography.

A film photograph exaggerates color and contrast.

The green channel is where editing significantly bends reality because it lets us boost green shadows and pinken highlights.