Post sharpening on shallow DOF shot?

[jcs]

JCS - Can you use a base 5DMKIII still as an example and show the different methods of sharpening? Probably a lot of work, but I'm interested.

720p ALL-I from camera:


720p with the above 'manual' USM, followed by Sharpen, followed by custom GPU noise grain (runs real-time):


Sharpening was applied to the 720p video scaled up to 1080p and slowed down 40% (60-24fps). Looks better in motion- can't really tell it was 720p source when watched full screen (including on an HDTV).

 

[Samuel H]

nice! (too much grain for my taste, but nice!)

 

[Gene Sung]

Wow, the sharpening actually looks kind of crazy on the background. On your face it looks decent, maybe a bit too much sharpening, but the blur on the background makes it lose the nice soft feel because of all the noise. Now it feels rough and too noisy.

 

[jcs]

Everyone has their prefs; again, looks very good in motion at 1080p (720p original). As a still, I like the original better, however in motion the processed version is much better. Being able to make the soft 5D3 720p look detailed at 1080p (for slomo) is pretty cool.

Kholi asked for an example; you can try these methods yourself and sharpen+grain to taste.