Making demons.

The media seems to be continuing to use the grainy photocopied image of Haneef, The Age has it on the front page as I type. The real image, as seen at DeadRoo, (courtesy of TVoTAY) shows Haneef is, well. A complete dork.
Dork's cannot look evil. You can't take them serious enough to consider them a threat. Maurice Moss from the IT Crowd is a great example. But can he be made evil with selective images? Let's try!
First step, grey scale, and cropping. Obvious in the Haneef photo.
Next step, to simulate the nice quality deterioration of repeated photocopies, duplicate the main layer, add some edge enhancement, and adjust the opacity of the layer to around 14%.
Next up, add another layer, fill it with noise, soften it, switch the blend mode to hard light, and adjust opacity to around 48%.
Now adjust the contrast to lose some of the finer details that make him look human. The almost-smirk has gone, the near-dimples have faded, and he looks less rediculous and possibly more sinister. It's hard to tell.
His afro and double-chin add too much to his character, so we can crop those out, and voila! A plausible suspect.
(As a site note, I can understand why the photo would lose quality when photocopied, but that doesn't explain why it's cropped, removing his dorky features.)



2 Comments:
Great post... and great example!
Have you seen Haneef's wife when she has been interviewed? In some cases she hasn't been wearing a scarf, while in others when she has been, it doesn't cover up her hair. Now call me skeptical, but I find it hard to imagine the wife of some fundamentalist Muslim "terrorist" appearing in public like this.
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