Fake TV-screen image

[eob]

I realize that all of you certainly have seen this effect before.

I am posting this image only because it is sort of a high-value family gem for me (the image is - not the effect). It is a reproduction of the pencil-drawing my ex-wife did more than 30 years ago. The drawing of our daughter (at age 2) has been made based on my photographic portrait done just weeks before that. The effect is just an added treatment intended to make a straight reproduction look a bit more interesting...



If any of you would like to know the exact procedure I used to get this effect of a video screen with scan-lines, I could post a small tutorial in our Photography Workshop area...

[aprilS]

This child looks much wiser than her two years. :)

The presentation strikes me as disturbing, because I imagine a police artist's rendering and an Amber Alert being flashed on the TV screen.

[eob]

Disturbing it is, unless you think of it as a joke (bad joke - I admit). I have this strange sense of paradox/surreality/absurdity/ in many aspects of life. I thought this image would bring to mind a child as a public enemy in a 'Wanted' kind of a poster. I guess my concept was too hasty...

Basically, though, I just wanted to see whether a plain, boring, mechanical reproduction can be enlivened a bit with some special effect. That's probably the reason I did not think too much about possible intellectual meanings of the result.

BTW, the drawing is better than my original photo!

[habakuk]

I'm with April here. I get the feeling that this is a very sad scene. It feel some negative foreboding radiating from it. But that might come from the portrait being lit from below. That always adds something negative to faces.

cheers
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[André]

I agree with the writers above.
It looks like WWIII. The child is in the desert and it is windy. It looks very grim to me and very sad. The old fashioned TV-screen look brings this up even more.

The effect does definetely somthing with the mood of the image.

Cheers,
André