Stock Image Fails Show What Happens When Photographers Don’t Know What They’re Doing
When done correctly, stock images can help to enhance, educate, inspire and illuminate. When done incorrectly however, they can lead to unexpected trips to the emergency room.
Take these pictures below for example. See anything strange about them? They look innocent enough…right? Wrong! Because as those of you who know even a little about soldering will probably have noticed, the models, so studiously engaged in their circuit boards, are holding the soldering irons in a rather unusual fashion. And by rather unusual I mean REALLY DANGEROUS, because the rod that they’re gripping just happens to be the part that gets hot. Really hot. Hot enough to melt solder in fact.
We can only assume that the soldering irons aren’t plugged in. Well, either that or these models have superhuman abilities to withstand agonizing heat. Whatever the truth, these pictures serve to remind us that even when we’re instructed how to do something, it never hurts to ask questions.
(h/t: PetaPixel)
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Not to mention that the models are trying to solder the WRONG SIDE OF THE CIRCUIT BOARD...!!
Ummm, welcome to the 21st Century! In the land of surface-mount soldering 'component side' really just means the front and 'solder side' really just means the back. It has nothing to do with where things are soldered.
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Don't worry. Their eyes are strongly safe behind glasses. You know, "jumpers" are very dangerous if jump! :D
If that's what dr. Slump says, I know my mind can be in peace. ☻
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It's funny that in the top photo she appears to be in a chemistry or biology lab... you know cause science.
She must be repairing one of the lab machine's mainboard LoL
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Seriously? The irons were plugged in for a simple photo shoot? Where's the smoke from burning flesh and plastic, as that would have made the photos a little more interesting.
The circuit board in the photos is a mainboard (motherboard) of a computer and I can't think of any reason you would be manually soldering anything to this type of board. The solder joints are on the bottom of the board.
Incorrect, there are solder joints on both sides of the board, welcome to modern surface-mount soldering. There are probably 5 times as many joints on the 'component side' as there are on the 'solder side' nowadays.
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Very keen workers who aced Solder Stupidly 101 "Cold Solder Joints" and "Innovative Digit Heat Sinks."
I'd venture to guess NONE of these people have EVER worked on a circuit board in their life. I worked at Cray Supercomputers for many years and repair work CAN be done on both sides. The smaller the components are the less human interaction there is, usually done by robotics. I'd also add that no one seems to be grounded and that isn't a CLEAN ROOM environment.
This is a photo shoot, not a practical demonstration. Why was the iron even power-up? Food photographers wouldn't injure their models in this fashion?
have you seen stock photos with instruments?! they're massive fails. especially the bow holding ones
The lab smelled like burnt flesh, ruined motherboards and geeks getting mad.
And then theres the woman who can do more with a MIG welder than any man I've ever seeb..... this one has turned it into some kind of flame spitting cutting torch! 20160325_184802.jpg 
They aren't even soldering the right side of the circuit board. STUPID
Wow, you must be really bored to take of your time to write this "article"
Too funny. And I learned even more - and laughed harder - from other people's comments, too!
It took 3 different models with 3rd degree burns to finally figure it out??!!?? That makes no sense.
No one went to the hospital. XD it's a joke. The models would have gone to the hospital IF they were on. They are holding it wrong. VERY VERY wrong. that part they are holding is crazy hot when turned on. the stock photo is useless for any use.
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they are NOT on but the joke is if you have a stock photo of someone working with a soldering irons they shouldn't be holding it like a pencil. They would have had serious burn issues after that.
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they're lucky, the solder temperature control is not turned on.. Somebody please plug that device..
If those iron would have been plugged in, those pictures would look a lot different....
I like how in the top photo she is in a chemistry or biology lab... you know, cause science.
It's not literal. The writer (of either the text and/or tweet) just means that these people would've been in the hospital if they were pics of actual humans soldering like that ;) Just meaning you should know a thing about the subject your photographing before taking the actual pics. Or, at least I hope that's what the writer of the article means. Otherwise he really misunderstood the tweet.
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Those are soldering irons. They get extremely hot to melt solder. They are holding onto the metal part of the gun instead of where you are supposed to hold it which is the plastic handle further up. Hence why they would have third degree burns.
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Also normally you would put the solder on the other side along with HAVING SOLDER to do it. And I normally do not touch the circuit board itself. The image is a bit silly.
I just LOVE how everyone thinks that! Pick up a board and look at it! If it was mass-produced in the last 20 years, it is a surface-mount board. You will be disappointed in what you find on the 'solder side' haha
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Not to mention that the models are trying to solder the WRONG SIDE OF THE CIRCUIT BOARD...!!
Ummm, welcome to the 21st Century! In the land of surface-mount soldering 'component side' really just means the front and 'solder side' really just means the back. It has nothing to do with where things are soldered.
Load More Replies... Don't worry. Their eyes are strongly safe behind glasses. You know, "jumpers" are very dangerous if jump! :D
If that's what dr. Slump says, I know my mind can be in peace. ☻
Load More Replies... It's funny that in the top photo she appears to be in a chemistry or biology lab... you know cause science.
She must be repairing one of the lab machine's mainboard LoL
Load More Replies... Seriously? The irons were plugged in for a simple photo shoot? Where's the smoke from burning flesh and plastic, as that would have made the photos a little more interesting.
The circuit board in the photos is a mainboard (motherboard) of a computer and I can't think of any reason you would be manually soldering anything to this type of board. The solder joints are on the bottom of the board.
Incorrect, there are solder joints on both sides of the board, welcome to modern surface-mount soldering. There are probably 5 times as many joints on the 'component side' as there are on the 'solder side' nowadays.
Load More Replies... Very keen workers who aced Solder Stupidly 101 "Cold Solder Joints" and "Innovative Digit Heat Sinks."
I'd venture to guess NONE of these people have EVER worked on a circuit board in their life. I worked at Cray Supercomputers for many years and repair work CAN be done on both sides. The smaller the components are the less human interaction there is, usually done by robotics. I'd also add that no one seems to be grounded and that isn't a CLEAN ROOM environment.
This is a photo shoot, not a practical demonstration. Why was the iron even power-up? Food photographers wouldn't injure their models in this fashion?
have you seen stock photos with instruments?! they're massive fails. especially the bow holding ones
The lab smelled like burnt flesh, ruined motherboards and geeks getting mad.
And then theres the woman who can do more with a MIG welder than any man I've ever seeb..... this one has turned it into some kind of flame spitting cutting torch! 20160325_184802.jpg
They aren't even soldering the right side of the circuit board. STUPID
Wow, you must be really bored to take of your time to write this "article"
Too funny. And I learned even more - and laughed harder - from other people's comments, too!
It took 3 different models with 3rd degree burns to finally figure it out??!!?? That makes no sense.
No one went to the hospital. XD it's a joke. The models would have gone to the hospital IF they were on. They are holding it wrong. VERY VERY wrong. that part they are holding is crazy hot when turned on. the stock photo is useless for any use.
Load More Replies... they are NOT on but the joke is if you have a stock photo of someone working with a soldering irons they shouldn't be holding it like a pencil. They would have had serious burn issues after that.
Load More Replies... they're lucky, the solder temperature control is not turned on.. Somebody please plug that device..
If those iron would have been plugged in, those pictures would look a lot different....
I like how in the top photo she is in a chemistry or biology lab... you know, cause science.
It's not literal. The writer (of either the text and/or tweet) just means that these people would've been in the hospital if they were pics of actual humans soldering like that ;) Just meaning you should know a thing about the subject your photographing before taking the actual pics. Or, at least I hope that's what the writer of the article means. Otherwise he really misunderstood the tweet.
Load More Replies... Those are soldering irons. They get extremely hot to melt solder. They are holding onto the metal part of the gun instead of where you are supposed to hold it which is the plastic handle further up. Hence why they would have third degree burns.
Load More Replies... Also normally you would put the solder on the other side along with HAVING SOLDER to do it. And I normally do not touch the circuit board itself. The image is a bit silly.
I just LOVE how everyone thinks that! Pick up a board and look at it! If it was mass-produced in the last 20 years, it is a surface-mount board. You will be disappointed in what you find on the 'solder side' haha
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