JPEG Photoshop v. Lightroom

[VinnyC01]

Last night, in my ever going experiment to shoot night football, I trying to decide which would be a better workflow for me and which would be more effective:

This is only one example. Same picture, almost identical crop.

Please C & C is welcome and more so which photo is better - the Lightroom with small adjustments that can be saved as presets and takes much less tome due the fact that I do not have open/close photos OR the Photoshop which is a longer process, but easier using presets or autos.

Please disregard the poor red eye correction. (I brought the wrong monopod, missing the bracketing clamp, so I had the flash only 4 inches below the camera.

PHOTO (TOP) Photoshop - crop, auto level, auto contrast.



PHOTO (2nd) Lightroom - white color adjust, slight saturation, clarity and a few other small adjustments such as blacks, fill light.

[Croasdail]

Honestly, the second shot is a mess to me. Bringing up the chain link fence in the background does not help this shot one bit. Nope, if I had a choice, the 'shoped version would win this one hands down.

Why not build an action in photoshop and be done with it. Makes it just a easy as lightroom if this is the trade off you have to make. Though I am sure Lightroom didn't have to bring the background up as much as it did.

Just my 2 cents worth, next opinion...

[Balliolman]

The processing in LR looks too hot to me.

[TTk]

Number 2 IMO has the better colour of the two, the skin tone on the face looks better, so I'm going for the Lightroom No2.