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hbutz New York

Posts: 3923

Ronkonkoma, New York, US

https://nypost.com/2018/01/15/familys-p … -719548733

Family’s ‘professional’ photo shoot goes hilariously wrong.  When Pam Zaring booked a professional photographer to take photos of her family, she was hoping for some simple, smiling pictures of her loved ones.  But when Pam received the finished product from the photographer, she found that all of her family’s faces had been bizarrely edited to look like cartoon characters...

Jan 16 18 04:47 am Link

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Shot By Adam

Posts: 8093

Las Vegas, Nevada, US

Would have been nice if they would have outted the fauxotrapher.

I'm curious though, at some point the client had to have looked at the fauxtographer's portfolio and seen what their editing skills were like, so was the fauxtographer using stolen photos in their portfolio, did they never edit any photos ever, or are they just complete idiots?

Jan 16 18 04:58 pm Link

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Leonard Gee Photography

Posts: 18096

Sacramento, California, US

you came a bit later to the game
https://www.modelmayhem.com/forums/post/971279

Jan 16 18 05:14 pm Link

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Randy Poe

Posts: 1638

Green Cove Springs, Florida, US

Leonard Gee Photography wrote:
you came a bit later to the game
https://www.modelmayhem.com/forums/post/971279

Meh, its posted every 30 seconds on every other forum why not here?

Jan 17 18 11:14 am Link

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Jason McKendricks

Posts: 6024

Chico, California, US

Shot By Adam wrote:
Would have been nice if they would have outted the fauxotrapher.

I'm curious though, at some point the client had to have looked at the fauxtographer's portfolio and seen what their editing skills were like, so was the fauxtographer using stolen photos in their portfolio, did they never edit any photos ever, or are they just complete idiots?

The photos were taken by Lesa Hall.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesa-hall-29b05169/

Jan 17 18 11:59 am Link

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Randy Poe

Posts: 1638

Green Cove Springs, Florida, US

Jason McKendricks wrote:

The photos were taken by Lesa Hall.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesa-hall-29b05169/

And yet any further search for any work from her leads right back to this bs article. The woman is enough to piss off Julian Assange.

Jan 17 18 02:45 pm Link