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NoLoveLosslessParticipant
Ah, Kathleen, there’s one I’ll have to add to my ‘must have’ photos at the next wedding….. https://www.facebook.com/kathleensack/photos/a.10151614542637750.1073741829.264654277749/10151615891727750/?type=3&theater
<hearing my mother’s voice say ‘your eyes are going to stick like that if you don’t quit rolling them so hard!’>
I’ve run across dozens but it is starting to feel rather futile when posting them. *sigh*
NoLoveLosslessParticipant“Someone doesn’t know how to use the word ‘photography’…”
FIFY (Fixed It For You 😉 )
NoLoveLosslessParticipantAh, and we have another winner! https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.814334061930707.1073741938.361839000513551&type=3
She has it all – selective color, ‘Barbie & Ken plastic-smooth people,’ bad lighting, Dutch angles, over saturation, railroad tracks, truck-stop style ‘boudoir’…you name it, it’s there!!
Does anyone know why they black out the fauxtog’s name on the main page when they put up the pics? They are really doing the population in general a huge disservice when they do that (not letting people know who took the things) and I can’t see why because they are publicly posted pics. Just curious.
NoLoveLosslessParticipantAh, and we have another winner! https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.814334061930707.1073741938.361839000513551&type=3
She has it all – selective color, ‘Barbie & Ken plastic-smooth people,’ bad lighting, Dutch angles, over saturation, railroad tracks, truck-stop style ‘boudoir’…you name it, it’s there!!
Does anyone know why they black out the fauxtog’s name on the main page when they put up the pics? They are really doing the population in general a huge disservice when they do that (not letting people know who took the things) and I can’t see why because they are publicly posted pics. Just curious.
NoLoveLosslessParticipantAh, read the ‘About’ section for LFL and came to this: “We work with several different free lance photographers who have a great talent for photography and a pure joy for it, as they show through their work!” So, there is a whole army of them shooting this crap together.
Another thing I have noticed – a LOT of these fauxtogs are very young women – very young – and they are fearless! There is no photograph they are afraid to take. That in and of itself is a good thing – there are some of them that may someday be very good photographers if they will go on to learn and perfect their craft. I just wish they’d leave the weddings to the professionals.
NoLoveLosslessParticipant*sigh* I know what you are saying, picstop, I know. *sigh* Kind of reminds me of the old saying ‘ignorance of the law is no excuse.’ And, what’s more, I know a lot of these folks ARE poor – ‘real’ wedding photographer feel completely out of reach to them – most of the wedding events are obviously done in family homes/yards/small churches and the people attending are plain, simple folks. These are not people who can whip out the check book and get David Ziser or Jerry Ghionis to pop in and document their day. But, dammit, it just breaks my heart for these folks. There ARE affordable photogs out there. And many, like me, willing to work with the couple to come up with something reasonable in their price range and still give them good quality.
Good Lord fstopper89 – She is atrocious! And, indeed, if ‘you aslo get the expirience I’ve gained from the planning and preparation I’ve done for several other weddings over the years!’ then how come she has no photos of her own to show for it???? And I LOVE this one: https://www.facebook.com/BudgetBridalPartyServices/photos/a.691538427538135.1073741825.499380863420560/799251556766821/?type=3&theater – I think the power lines add that extra special touch, don’t you?
*sigh* the world keeps on spinning, doesn’t it?
NoLoveLosslessParticipantIn RE Christina Stuart’s work that amateo posted. Looking through the ‘Bill and Jean’s Wedding Day album, so many just jump out at me, like this one:
As a wedding photographer, I look at that and all I see is a filthy mirror, all kinds of crap on the floor at the girls’ feet, improper reflection of the flash in the filthy mirror, that cheap plastic hanger on the curtains, and the bride’s shoulders so square to the camera that she looks like a freakin’ linebacker for cripe’s sake. And the over saturation of color makes it look more like a Halloween dress up picture than a wedding picture.
And looking at these, it is like trying to play ‘where’s Waldo’ when trying to figure out what the auto focus landed on because it sure as heck wasn’t anywhere near the wedding party:
And the raccoon eyes in that second one are atrocious.
In this one: https://www.facebook.com/158890087499655/photos/a.501652999890027.1073741831.158890087499655/501961966525797/?type=3&theater – if they had just rotated the bride an 1/8 to a 1/4 turn to get her against that Wall to camera right they could have had a beautifully composed picture with what appears to be some beautiful window light right there just screaming to be used. Instead it is a crappy, flat picture with that god-awful mirror in the way again and all those kiddie toys shoved to the side. Same in this one: https://www.facebook.com/158890087499655/photos/a.501652999890027.1073741831.158890087499655/501961969859130/?type=3&theater
In this one: https://www.facebook.com/158890087499655/photos/a.501652999890027.1073741831.158890087499655/501962603192400/?type=3&theater – the little flower girl appears to have had her face eaten off!! ACK!! I know you get shots like this at every wedding but why oh WHY would you include them in the album instead of trashing them?
This photo: https://www.facebook.com/158890087499655/photos/a.501652999890027.1073741831.158890087499655/501997899855537/?type=3&theater – by the fauxtogs own admission in the comments, was a very important photo to the bride – and she was given a completely soft/out of focus shot with horrid split lighting on her face.
In this one, it looks like her sister is about to choke her: https://www.facebook.com/158890087499655/photos/a.501652999890027.1073741831.158890087499655/501997926522201/?type=3&theater – hand placement, people!! Ugh!
It makes me seriously ill to my stomach when I see wedding ‘photography’ like this. It is (hopefully) the one and only wedding the bride will ever have and this shite is all she has to remember it. It is inexcusable that someone would call themselves a ‘wedding photographer’ and do work of this quality. Go back to sticking babies in buckets and making heart hands on pregnant bellies – those can all be shot all over again the next day and no harm done. BUT FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY LEAVE THE BRIDES AND THE GROOMS TO THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING!
Just had to get that off my chest. I don’t know why I go and look at this stuff because I know all I am going to do is upset myself. I know I said before that most of the ‘clients’ of these fauxtogs often look like refugees from the ‘people of Walmart’ shoots BUT I also can see where they have taken some pretty average people and instead of portraying them in flattering light and combination poses to be the best they can be, they have TURNED THEM INTO people of Walmart photo contestants.
NoLoveLosslessParticipantAnd why really would you need one page for wedding and one page for everything else? I get that with boudoir, but weddings??
So you can provide twice the awful to the world???
NoLoveLosslessParticipantFor posing, this is an excellent video tutorial by Jerry Ghionis via B&H: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmi9TPQ57Mo
I jut love Jerry Ghionis, and as a wedding photographer I seek out every thing he does and soak it up as best as I can. I personally think the man is a genius and a genuinely nice guy.
This is also a good one from him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2nNxaBA6ss
I’d give anything to attend his workshops – that is on my bucket list. 🙂
NoLoveLosslessParticipantOne thing I’ve noticed after going through all the fauxtogs linked in this thread – just about every one of them, AND the people they are taking these pictures for, can most likely be found fitting right in on the ‘people of Walmart’ pages as well. 😀 😀
NoLoveLosslessParticipantAw, here’s another one for you to enjoy…found this one on craigslist too!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stolen-Moments-Photography/220740117939629
For only $40 you too can be edited to look this awful…
Fun alien skin tones… https://www.facebook.com/220740117939629/photos/pb.220740117939629.-2207520000.1403979002./864710603542574/?type=3&theater
Look, mom, my eyebrows are gone! https://www.facebook.com/220740117939629/photos/pb.220740117939629.-2207520000.1403979002./864708073542827/?type=3&theater
Just the way every woman wants to remember her wedding day… https://www.facebook.com/220740117939629/photos/pb.220740117939629.-2207520000.1403979111./850931644920470/?type=3&theater
Good God how do these people keep getting business?
(yeah, I’m bored today 😀 )
NoLoveLosslessParticipanthttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.410088745711565.120236.211613192225789&type=3
I swear that there is not one single straight photo in the whole album – makes me woozy just looking through it.
NoLoveLosslessParticipantThat bridge is right outside of town an it gets used a LOT up around that area.
The ‘Forever 21’ thing was the first thing that came to me as well.
Crooked photos make me feel like I’m on a lurching ship. 🙂
NoLoveLosslessParticipantI’m feeling for Seth getting hit with so many from SEMO so I thought I’d let him know that he’s not alone.
https://www.facebook.com/always19photo
Nothing like a great shot of your kids completely out of focus…
oh, wait, there’s the sole of a shoe…..
NoLoveLosslessParticipantHowdy! Long time follower of this site, first time poster. 🙂 Y’all have really found some lulus, that is for sure! It’s been like a really bad accident – you want to, but you just can’t look away!
The Midwest is teeming fauxtogs isn’t it? Here’s one from good old Lincoln, Il – home of the not-rights. (‘Cause most of them just aren’t right)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brickey-Photography/340694023356
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