# Kodak Portra 400

Light and look / Film stock and texture / Film. Checked 2026-10-13.

Warm, soft skin tones and a nostalgic photo feel.

- Use when: Lifestyle portraits, fashion, weddings, travel.
- Phrase: shot on Kodak Portra 400 film, warm natural skin, soft pastel colours, fine grain
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/texture/kodak-portra-400
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/texture/kodak-portra-400.json

## Watch out

- Grain, sensor noise and vignetting date an image: a shop scene with them read as a photo from 2008. Grain belongs to a film or snapshot register, not to realism as such. (measured; Director Chair field notes on image prompting (Aug 2026))

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
Emulate the aesthetic of Kodak Portra 400 analog film, characterized by fine grain, warm natural skin tones, and excellent highlight latitude. [your subject] in [your setting].
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
Emulate the aesthetic of Kodak Portra 400 analog film, characterized by fine grain, warm natural skin tones, and excellent highlight latitude. [your subject] in [your setting].
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
Details: shot on Kodak Portra 400 film, warm natural skin, soft pastel colours, fine grain
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
Shot on Kodak Portra 400 film, warm natural skin, soft pastel colours, fine grain. [your subject] in [your setting].
```

## Look further

- https://shotdeck.com/ : real film frames tagged by colour, lighting, time of day and composition (paid, link only)
- https://flim.ai/ : film, ad and music-video stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)

## Goes well with

- 35mm film: https://directorchair.ai/texture/film-35mm
- Polaroid instant: https://directorchair.ai/texture/polaroid

## Source

The first Director Chair spec, own words

Text CC BY 4.0, Director Chair (directorchair.ai). Reference clips and their card texts belong to their makers.