The Portra range is definitely my favourite now and my most trusted, to achieve exactly what I want. It always produces subtle but dreamy like colours, with amazing tones. I always find that editing can start to take away the qualities of the image so I never have to do too much editing with this film stock, which I love!

These ones I will show of my nephew because they are so fantastically nostalgic feeling even if they were taken last September. Great colours and tones, really lovely! Definitely a favourite in my photo albums.

Decided to take half an hour out from what I'd originally gone down the beach to do when I saw all the frost around the dunes and the beach huts.

I could probably have got a mono picture or two out of it but thought I'd give it a go on Portra 160 - like what I'd just bought three rolls of when the Wondies had a sale.

These were shot on a Nikon FE2 and a couple of old wides, opening up a bit going into the sun which was giving it the big 'un behind the huts to try and get a bit more detail in the shadows.

You can see why people rate it for landscapes, clean, sharp images with a bit of latitude.

Bit blue..? Yeah, but it was a brass monkeys kind of morning. As in like why that was so frosty.

The scans weren't too shabby when they came back from the Wondies. They just needed a slight tickle to bump up the DR and one or two other bits to make them sing.

Best of all there was so little noise in the scans that they didn't lump up like Elephant Man's face when I tweaked them.

Very impressed.

This film never fails to disappoint. I went to Lisbon and really tested the limit of this film, shooting during the day, evening and at night. The results just keep giving. From shooting at varying times of day, I noticed that it's medium/high saturation during daylight (obviously not as saturated as slide film!), rather muted (almost pastel) during evening light and overall surprising at night. Truly a great overall film that gives reliable results. I wanted to stray away from this film due to its cost, but not sure if I can now.

I'd like to say I did it on purpose but actually forgot to change the manual setting on my P17 from 400 iso to 160 - but I carried on at 400 and asked AW what to do. Helpfully they were able to process the film +1.5 stops and as usual with Portra, the results don't disappoint.
I also shot 2 rolls of B&W with my ME Super (Black Market and Frankenstein) which I have also reviewed, and you might want to compare these?
Colours are stunning with Portra and have a natural but slightly retro style. I cannot believ how lucky us film photograpers are to have such a stunning product available to us.
Many thanks to AW for making my disater into a decent set of images.