Family Can’t Believe Their Eyes After Their Professional Photographer Shows Them Their Photos
A picture is worth a thousand words but a hilariously terrible family photoshoot earned them over 377K shares and 363K likes on Facebook. Everything started when the Zarings were contacted by a middle-aged woman, marketing herself as an experienced professional photographer. She took them to the popular Forest Park in St. Louis where they paid her $250 to snap beautiful pictures. After 8 months of post-production, the Zarings received a package containing a disc. After they opened the images, the family almost died of laughter.
The creepy cartoon faces staring back at Pam were lacking any human features, with eyes and teeth that looked like they were done in Paint. “She said the shadows were really bad on the beautiful, clear, sunny day and that her professor never taught her to retouch photos,” Pam Dave Zaring wrote. Pam said she has asked for the original pictures, but she doesn’t want a refund. On the contrary, she’s found humor in the whole ordeal. According to her, the photoshoot “has been worth every dime” for all the giggles it produced.
Scroll down to check out a photoshoot the family will never forget and let us know in the comments if you’d pay $250 for it!
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The Zarings went to Forest Park in St. Louis where they paid a ‘professional’ photographer $250 to snap beautiful pictures
Image credits: Pam Dave Zaring
After 8 months of post-production, however, she mailed them something that took the family completely by surprise
Image credits: Lesa Hall
Image credits: Lesa Hall
Image credits: Lesa Hall
Image credits: Lesa Hall
Image credits: Lesa Hall
Image credits: Lesa Hall
But the family don’t want a refund. On the contrary, they’ve found humor in the whole ordeal
Delivering images like these to a client is ridiculous. However, as a REAL professional photographer, I wanted to address the gentleman 's comment about there being no shadows on a bright sunny day. Bright sunny days = shadows. Ideal weather for outdoor photography is always overcast = even, uniform lighting and no shadows. A professional outdoor photographer would have known that.
I totally agree: sunny=shadows.. If you have to do it that day you could use a flash it you know how to.. or otherwise do what everyone tells you not to do: photograph against the sun...
Precisely! You can even see in the unretouched parts of the pics that there are shadows all over the place. Nonetheless, it's brilliant. I would totally have every single one of these framed and hung prominently in my house. $250 is a lot of money, but hey, for high art like this, it's a bargain.
First you have to take the camera off of automatic ! You have to use a fill flash and you need to know how to white balance. The digital age has made everyone a "professional" ! Besides the "retouch" attempt , this lady must have played hooky the day they study posing.
You don't always need overcast if you know what you're doing. It depends on the look you're after. Midday sun is usually what you don't want.
The article actually says: "She said the shadows were really bad on the beautiful, clear, sunny day and that her professor never taught her to retouch photos,” What part of that implies there were no shadows?
I believe on a sunny day a flash can be used to bring out the facial features.
"Ideal weather for outdoor photography is always overcast".....unless you are qualified to call yourself a professional. In that case you'd know how to use off camera lighting, or at least scrims and reflectors etc. Shoot however you prefer and I agree that you overcast can make for an easier time, but to say that it's "always ideal" to have overcast weather is absolutely ridiculous. Maybe you didn't mean it that literally at all and you really know your stuff, it just drives me nuts when people claim that this or that condition is the ONLY way to shoot something when it's just that they don't know how what the fuck they're doing and need to invest in some more skill. I've seen so many cringe worthy outdoor shoots happen where I know damn well the panic the photographer is going to face when they get home and realize what they've done after getting their first DSLR, shooting a couple shots and thinking "I'm ready for anything".
Hello
I took what he wrote to mean he was saying there were no shadows on them as they were posed for the pictures. He's too literate to be unable to understand the relationship between light and shadow.
Super funny if it were free with an apology, but at $250.00 and a day of posing I wouldn't have been laughing.
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I resigned my office-job and now I am getting paid £64 hourly. How? I work over internet! My old work was making me miserable, so I was forced to try something different, two years after...I can say my life is changed-completely for the better! This is what i do... http://cutt.us/0VlX0
https://www.facebook.com/imagerybylesahal/ I think that family knew exactly, what they ordered. This "photo agency" is running projects like that. Not to mention I feel like it is all set up. The profile has updates running from 13th of January. So it's either really new, or created solely for this purpose. Idk I just smell fake here.
The Facebook page is definitely a fake. It was set up after the story broke, presumably as a joke.
Also any pro would have included their e-mail address and a link to their web page. But I think the big clue is the name "Less Ball" instead of "Lesa Hall". :-D
Delivering images like these to a client is ridiculous. However, as a REAL professional photographer, I wanted to address the gentleman 's comment about there being no shadows on a bright sunny day. Bright sunny days = shadows. Ideal weather for outdoor photography is always overcast = even, uniform lighting and no shadows. A professional outdoor photographer would have known that.
I totally agree: sunny=shadows.. If you have to do it that day you could use a flash it you know how to.. or otherwise do what everyone tells you not to do: photograph against the sun...
Precisely! You can even see in the unretouched parts of the pics that there are shadows all over the place. Nonetheless, it's brilliant. I would totally have every single one of these framed and hung prominently in my house. $250 is a lot of money, but hey, for high art like this, it's a bargain.
First you have to take the camera off of automatic ! You have to use a fill flash and you need to know how to white balance. The digital age has made everyone a "professional" ! Besides the "retouch" attempt , this lady must have played hooky the day they study posing.
You don't always need overcast if you know what you're doing. It depends on the look you're after. Midday sun is usually what you don't want.
The article actually says: "She said the shadows were really bad on the beautiful, clear, sunny day and that her professor never taught her to retouch photos,” What part of that implies there were no shadows?
I believe on a sunny day a flash can be used to bring out the facial features.
"Ideal weather for outdoor photography is always overcast".....unless you are qualified to call yourself a professional. In that case you'd know how to use off camera lighting, or at least scrims and reflectors etc. Shoot however you prefer and I agree that you overcast can make for an easier time, but to say that it's "always ideal" to have overcast weather is absolutely ridiculous. Maybe you didn't mean it that literally at all and you really know your stuff, it just drives me nuts when people claim that this or that condition is the ONLY way to shoot something when it's just that they don't know how what the fuck they're doing and need to invest in some more skill. I've seen so many cringe worthy outdoor shoots happen where I know damn well the panic the photographer is going to face when they get home and realize what they've done after getting their first DSLR, shooting a couple shots and thinking "I'm ready for anything".
Hello
I took what he wrote to mean he was saying there were no shadows on them as they were posed for the pictures. He's too literate to be unable to understand the relationship between light and shadow.
Super funny if it were free with an apology, but at $250.00 and a day of posing I wouldn't have been laughing.
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I resigned my office-job and now I am getting paid £64 hourly. How? I work over internet! My old work was making me miserable, so I was forced to try something different, two years after...I can say my life is changed-completely for the better! This is what i do... http://cutt.us/0VlX0
https://www.facebook.com/imagerybylesahal/ I think that family knew exactly, what they ordered. This "photo agency" is running projects like that. Not to mention I feel like it is all set up. The profile has updates running from 13th of January. So it's either really new, or created solely for this purpose. Idk I just smell fake here.
The Facebook page is definitely a fake. It was set up after the story broke, presumably as a joke.
Also any pro would have included their e-mail address and a link to their web page. But I think the big clue is the name "Less Ball" instead of "Lesa Hall". :-D