Fauxtogs who should end up on the main page…

[dstone81]

Yeah I can’t believe someone would pay for theses. Orange baby anyone?

https://www.facebook.com/pixelperfectplease/timeline

[dstone81]

I meant to post I can’t believe anyone would pay for these.

Yeah I can’t believe someone would pay for theses. Orange baby anyone?

https://www.facebook.com/pixelperfectplease/timeline

[spanghew]

I clicked on this page’s link, because the name alone screamed “fauxtog”.  The whole thing is a mess.
https://www.facebook.com/VisionOfMemoriesphotography

[seth]

In a word: https://www.facebook.com/VisionOfMemoriesphotography/photos/a.432923146746150.93935.432923003412831/879492228755904/?type=1&theater

[cameraclicker]

Not convinced.  The text makes me wince and some of the photos could be much better, but this one reads:

http://visionofmemoriesphotography.tumblr.com/image/98455981246

Shooting the camera’s back is a way to record settings.  I think it’s interesting that a Nikon set to manual will still show Exposure Compensation.

The message is confused.  Jewel Bunch III has a black hand holding the book but at Model Mayhem is a Caucasian female model and photographer named Jewel Carlson.   I can’t tell if the web site (http://www.visionsofmemoriesphotography.com/) is coming, or was abandoned.

I think I see promise, yet she has been messing with this for 9 years and there are other photographer’s photos mixed in which adds to the confusion.

[seth]

EXIF is a way to record the camera’s settings.

 

[cameraclicker]

EXIF is a way to record the camera’s settings.

That’s true.  But, unless Facebook has changed their practice in the last month or two, they strip EXIF from photos.  I suppose you could type out the EXIF data, or even copy and past it, but that just seems like work when you can take a photo of the display screen.  Some of the general photos are labelled as “behind the scenes” or “shoot before the shoot”, so there is an obvious attempt to draw an audience into the whole process.  showing the camera back seems to follow the same line of thought.

I agree all the pages show a confused mess.  There does, however, seem to be an attempt to learn and progress, even if that learning process has taken nine years to get to this point.  I like many of the photos.

This video:  https://www.facebook.com/VisionOfMemoriesphotography/videos/vb.432923003412831/871772299527897/?type=2&theater , shows a black guy who says he is Jewel Bunch III.  Looking more closely at his “Bio” on Tumbler, the link that took me to Jewel Carlson on Model Mayhem may have been a bad link.  She may have nothing to do with Visions of Memories.    I couldn’t find a Jewel Bunch on Model Mayhem.

[spanghew]

In Jewel’s defence, he (I think it’s a guy at least) does post a lot of work for critique, which would support the theory that he’s really trying to learn.
And I do actually like a few of the pictures, buth the general quality of the work is below the level I’d expect from someone that’s been doing it for 10 years already.
This one looks like it could have come straight off the front page of this site
https://www.facebook.com/VisionOfMemoriesphotography/photos/a.432923146746150.93935.432923003412831/879492228755904/?type=1&theater

But yeah, quality of the photography aside:   having multiple names for the same “business”, writing posts with strange grammar and spelling mistakes, and asking the page’s non-existent audience to rate portraits is a bit unprofessional.

[britney.young]

https://www.facebook.com/suzanne.parkerphotography?pnref=story

I just posted hours of entertainment. I have been trying not to trash this FAUX but recently found out she bullies her friends and families and clients. I am usually above this type of public shaming, but reading a few of her status upon realizing she was so hateful and mean to her clients just hammered the last nail in her coffin. My sister-in-law got married 2.5 years ago and Suzanne is a “friend of the family”. I offered to do her wedding for next to nothing, but she said she would never be able to get away with it. Her friend didn’t even want the CD with the files because they were SO AWFUL. I felt horrible and offered to do a FREE After-knot, since she was my sister in law’s best friend and my heart is broken that she hates her photos. She tentatively set up a date and Suzanne found out. Basically told her she would be sorry if she had a session with me (among other horrible things). So bash away, friends, and you’re welcome.

[fstopper89]

Suzanne has an entire post on her business page about why you should hire a pro and blah blah blah… except she’s like the $100 photographers she’s suggesting against!

AND SHE CAN’T EVEN SPELL CANON CORRECTLY! For crying out loud! It’s not a big thing that goes boom and shoots lead balls out!

[picstop]

Suzanne is always open. I’ll call her tonight after the hockey game, see how she’s doing.

Bunch of “meh”. She definitely doesn’t look like someone who’s been in this game for 10 years. Sorry, but I don’t see the story about the bashing anywhere. Again, just going by the quick glance and I only see one wedding with just the bride and a grotesque shot of the bridesmaids and a bunch of other nothing specials.

[fstopper89]

Hmm… this person was advertising on a yard sale site today. Scrolling on this page, I saw where she was ridiculing “outrageous” prices for wedding photographers. Someone beat me to it but I didn’t want to comment.

Her photos are almost all blurry and awful, and many have sloppy selective coloring. https://www.facebook.com/mattymayphotography/photos/ms.c.eJxFzFEKADEIA9EbLWrcaO5~;sUKl7e9jGDeWdyUkwkqfHyBDlbwQu2i7oCke9DzywD8P8AFCTMOAQrtwcQFXXxuf.bps.a.1067187406629749.1073741850.841084669240025/1067192936629196/?type=1&theater

 

[picstop]

Mattymay is a find. I guess she never heard the saying “you get what you pay for”? The disregard for composition (why do these fauxs never see the junk in the background?), a few that I saw oof had the background crisp as can be (love how that draws your attention to the junk and away from the subject, sort of like bokeh in reverse I guess), and many where you couldn’t find something in focus if you had a microscope, and of course, as always, the total lack of knowledge on lighting your subject (unless you like racoon eyes).
People will never understand that a photographer, especially a wedding photographer, is a luxury. You just won’t get decent photographs from an inexpensive one as you will a “high priced” (with high priced being relative for many), with the exception of a talented photographer charging less while building a portfolio for a short period of time and then he/she will be at the “normal” price range.
If you are the type of customer who will be happy with this,
https://www.facebook.com/mattymayphotography/photos/a.927533823928442.1073741839.841084669240025/927533837261774/?type=3&theater
or this
https://www.facebook.com/mattymayphotography/photos/a.927533823928442.1073741839.841084669240025/927533833928441/?type=3&theater
or
https://www.facebook.com/mattymayphotography/photos/a.927533823928442.1073741839.841084669240025/927533920595099/?type=3&theater
then by all means, hire her today.

[fstopper89]

What did the family think when they received this gem?

https://www.facebook.com/mattymayphotography/photos/pb.841084669240025.-2207520000.1430109619./1037848796230277/?type=3&theater

It would not be fauxtography without a set of railroad tracks.

https://www.facebook.com/mattymayphotography/photos/pb.841084669240025.-2207520000.1430109936./841087789239713/?type=3&theater

[picstop]

fstopper89–I saw that “family photo gem” too and wondered why anyone would think people would look good with blotchy skin. As so many times before, these fauxs take what could have been at least a passable shot (minus the racoon eyes) and turned it into a psychedelic nightmare. I guess she was keen to show off her repertoire of photoshop skills. And yes, I too would like to know if they truly “liked” it or simply did because they were too nice to actually tell her how it truly resembles a pile of guano.

And yes, let’s never forget to add some train tracks in there. Which of course, really added nothing to the shot anyway.

I’ve seen my share of track shots in my neck of the woods. I’ve even been en route to parks for formals and headed for the reception and driven over tracks and seen other bridal parties posing on them. And these are LIVE tracks with quite a few trains daily. I can’t imagine with the shoes the ladies wear that this is something the photographer thought was a smart idea. Even if the couple requested it, did the bridal party want to risk their lives too? Did it occur to them? I’ve had one request, told them it’s illegal and I can’t do something illegal, my insurance won’t cover damage or injury and sanity prevailed. Unfortunately there are a lot of people out there on the tracks, right beside the signs that tell them in not quite as many words that only idiots go near live tracks. Sorry, didn’t mean to go on a “track rant” but there you go.

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