General / Off-Topic Family Portrait Photos Gone Wrong

[Zetta]

Came across this on boingboing:

Ok. This is NOT a joke. We paid a photographer, who claimed to be a professional, $250 for a family photo shoot. Please see these FOR REAL photos she delivered to us....She said the shadows were really bad on the beautiful, clear, sunny day and that her professor never taught her to retouch photos. Feel free to share I literally have not laughed this hard in YEARS!!!!! You can't make this stuff up.....again, this is NOT a joke - final product

The Missouri based photographer is standing by her photos and won't return the $250 back to the family (!).

Spoiler

WTH!!

 

[Ian Skippy]

This is ultra-creepy, but also super cool. Not even sure I would prefer the normal professional stuff over this weirdness.

 

[Zetta]

This is ultra-creepy, but also super cool. Not even sure I would prefer the normal professional stuff over this weirdness.

Isn't it just, so so brilliantly creepy. Someone in the boingboing comment thread described it best, like something from a Dr Who episode

 

[MottiKhan]

Wow! Those are outstanding! The "enhancements" are so subtle.

+1 rep

 

[Patrick_68000]

It's soon time to go to bed. I hope that I would not have nightmares

 

[Jezzah]

Maybe the whole family has been victims of battery acid attacks so i think you guys are being harsh here.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

Maybe the whole family has been victims of battery acid attacks so i think you guys are being harsh here.

But that would be body shaming by omission.

 

[Stigbob]

No way it's real, has to be a joke.

 

[CMDR Percivus Keenblade]

Wow, porcelain good skin and dashing, pointy smiles must be genetically running in the family.

Hmmm.. Dogs faces are really breaking the immersion on the first pic. I don't get why it was left out especially when you consider the work done on details like the right side of the bench phasing in and out of existance, the kids shoe slightly bending space-time a little more than necessary and the trees on the top right perfectly duplicating each other and so on. Couldnt figure out what that thargoid device is in the back in 3rd pic though.

Well, anyway this surely is an elegant attempt to bring modern art into photography. No returns. Case closed.

 

[Morbad]

I'm pretty sure this is just clever marketing.

 

[JessicaSonnet]

WUTTTTTTTTTtttt is this?! XD

 

[Han Zulu]

What? No re-touch on the dogs? I'm disappointed! Money back immediately.

 

[Knightshark]

What happend with the faces and teeth?

 

[Han Zulu]

What happend with the faces and teeth?

What are you talking about? They're perfect! The question is what happened to the dogs!?!! They look all wrinkly and stuff.

 

[jasonbarron]

Here's one of me and my family. I'm actually kind of pleased with how it came out.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

The doggos are great.

Fun fact. I haven't had a single photo taken outside security cameras and such, for years.

 

[Clariko]

I don't see anything wrong with the family, nor the park bench and the trees in the background. Everything is fine!

 

[Jaiotu]

Worth every penny. Every penny.

 

[Zeeman]

...Her professor?

Z...

 

[metatheurgist]

I dunno, they should the photog's background. Are we sure the previous families that have received this treatment are still around.