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Use or not use?
I love the picture of your son!!! I think with a lot of imagination and knowing how good lighting should "act" that this picture could be fabulous.
I often take old pictures and make them into "new" portraits by adding better lighting (higher contrasts) and I imagine the rest. Sometimes I just use bone structure from a model and change their hairstyle to perhaps the victorian era for instance. I like to paint the same model in a variety of different hairstyles and different clothing, etc. Using an example such as this is a good exercise in using your imagination. The reason I do this quite often is that I do not see the kind of "plumpness" in the faces that I like when doing "ladies of yesteryear". Most had lovely soft faces. So if I find a picture from yesteryear, then I use him/her in quite a few different portraits.
I think that if you did it right and made it "WOW" then it just might be a portfolio addition.
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