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Did the copy get this right? It says the face with more contrast is perceived as female, but to me the more contrasty face is the one on the right, which I see
by bonaldi 17y ago
Did the copy get this right? It says the face with more contrast is perceived as female, but to me the more contrasty face is the one on the right, which I see as male. Adding to this, in my days as a retouch man, we'd add shadows and contrast to men's portraits, but remove it and soften for women's.
- timr 17y agoThe pic on the right is definitely less contrasty than the one on the left. Look at the lips relative to the skin. That said, it looks like it was a non-linear change to the contrast curve. The eyebrows have roughly the same tone in both images, as do the eyes. If I had to guess, the contrast was adjusted in the mid-gray region, with the extremes left unaffected. I'm also guessing that this illusion has to do with the contrast of skin tone between facial features -- not facial shadows (which can definitely affect the perception of beauty).
- colanderman 17y agoWhile the eyes look the same to me, the eyebrows look much lighter (and therefore thinner) to me in the higher-contrast image. (Perhaps we have different monitor curves?) I wish they had kept them the same, and only adjusted the contrast of the cheeks.
- spyrosk 17y agoI think what they mean is that by increasing the contrast on the left picture many features stand out more, like the lips, and a lot of shadows "blend in" the face, which in turn makes it look smoother and rounder. Both of these characteristics are interpreted as more feminine. In the second picture you are able to distinguish a lot more shadows and that seems like a "stronger" bone structure. (When I say stronger in the last sentence I mean with more extrusions etc but I cant think of the correct word right now, sorry)