Processing Wise Which Works Best?

Kintarō Hattori

I've processed a few photos with a harsh look to them. I'm quite liking it but I'm not sure if other people would as it may just look rough to others. I'd like some opinion on whether you think it works or not- forget the photo for the moment, I'm after some feedback on the processing. I know on the harshly processed image there's some flatness around the mid left cheek that needs work, if you can look past that for the moment that'd be great. Many thanks for any advice/comments left.

Harsh:



Soft:

ThOnda

Soft

Harsh. And you could create a poll for this thread too

Kintarō Hattori

Soft

ThOnda wrote: »

Harsh. And you could create a poll for this thread too

A good idea but stupidly I forget how- it's been so long snce I added one.


EDIT: Found it.

AnCatDubh

Soft

I think the *rule* is sharpen men, soften women. In this case I think the rule fits the gender issue.

Harsh it is for me.

Ghost Train

Soft

Would say particular background doesn't work well with the processing of the soft version, so not really a fair comparison

Slidinginfinity

Soft

Harsh, Harsh and... ...errr....ummmm..... ...Harsh

Kintarō Hattori

Soft

Ghost Train wrote: »

Would say particular background doesn't work well with the processing of the soft version, so not really a fair comparison

Hmnn I hadn't thought of it like that. What background would have worked well with the soft version? It's a living room wall btw.

Ghost Train

Soft

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Hmnn I hadn't thought of it like that. What background would have worked well with the soft version? It's a living room wall btw.

you'd need something that after processing would look similar to the harsh version, so dark or black background I guess

would probably be hard to beat the detail you're getting with the harsh processing

kjt

Soft

I'd choose the harsh pp'ing by a mile!!
Looks good

GhostInTheRuins

Soft

Harsh - 15
Soft - 0

I think you may have your answer!

Kintarō Hattori

Soft

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

Harsh - 15
Soft - 0

I think you may have your answer!

HaHa I think you're right. I had thought the harsh processing was best myself but the other half was adamant that soft was better so it threw me off.

oshead

AnCatDubh wrote: »

I think the *rule* is sharpen men, soften women. In this case I think the rule fits the gender issue.

Harsh it is for me.

Shows what I know. I picked soft. Though it's probably too soft. I think the other is too harsh. Maybe somewhere in between would be correct for my eye.

MartMax

Soft

Defo harsh for me. Remind me a lot of this.

AnimalRights

I'd like a 3rd option inbetween towards harsh.

Heebie

Soft

Definitely harsh looks more impressive.
It would be even better if he didn't look like a stuck-up, egotistical, angry person.
I've never understood why seemingly MOST posed pictures are posed in this fashion. Why do you people want to look like obnoxious jerks when they're getting their pictures taken?

Teferi

AnCatDubh wrote: »

I think the *rule* is sharpen men, soften women.

Well, you learn something new every day. I wouldn't have known this.

Kintarō Hattori

Soft

AnimalRights wrote: »

I'd like a 3rd option inbetween towards harsh.

Ah would ya feic off, two was enough work!

Heebie wrote: »

Definitely harsh looks more impressive.
It would be even better if he didn't look like a stuck-up, egotistical, angry person.
I've never understood why seemingly MOST posed pictures are posed in this fashion. Why do you people want to look like obnoxious jerks when they're getting their pictures taken?

Really? I don't see that at all. Yeah it's posed but he didn't try too hard, he's just looking out over a balcony. It's amazing what we can see and judge from a picture and the reality can be so much different. The reality here is that he's a fantastically sound guy- not at all like an obnoxious jerk!

humberklog

Harsh, without a doubt. And if you can slightly darken...a tad, a touch. Not so much as to lose detail in the hair/forehead area on the right of topic's nog (as we look at it)

KH...to really land that photo I'd think to try and naturally measure the distance from the tip of white eyebrow on the subject's left (as we look) and crop to an extra 1 third of existing difference. If you have it on the shot.

i.e. shift your crop just a touch or two to the left of frame (if you've got the space on orig.).

Adriatic

Soft

Harsh looks very interesting and detailed, I'd like to try it now.