Embarrassed photographer admits she was never taught how to retouch images...

[StewartR]

I think this must be faked - I hope it's faked! - but even so it's very funny.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5266295/Family-shares-results-hilarious-photo-shoot.html

 

[Peter Drought]

Probably clickbait.

 

[Kodiak Qc]

I hope it's faked! - but even so it's very funny.

I've seen many "wannabes" produce even worst than that…
I'm not sure it's a joke… and don't see this a funny at all.

 

[GTG]

Strange, its worse than my pictures. An incredible feat of stupidity

 

[boyfalldown]

Sadly, I think its real. The stories being floating round various social media for a few days

 

[mark richards]

must be faked, why would someone make a photo much worse than it is, the exposure on the rest of the picture seems ok, no harsh blown whites ,
so why go to that extreme on the faces?

 

[Icee]

In the papers today. They had to be better before they were messed with.

 

[f/2.8]

Don't think it is fake I have seen the post by the client on her personal facebook it has been shared all over the place

 

[StewartR]

Here's the original Facebook post. You don't need to be a Facebook member to see this.

https://www.facebook.com/pam.richardcoones/posts/10103240387205162

 

[mark richards]

attention seeking me finks,,

 

[Retune]

Nothing that the Nik Color Efex Pro de-zombify filter can't fix.

 

[woof woof]

Quite a good one of the dogs.

 

[Oddshapedoctopus]

I'm putting my bets on it being fake. If not the family is daft to pay that much without checking the photographers portfolio.

 

[RichieTee]

Is it just me that thinks I would have a harder time creating those 'cartoon effect faces' than I would doing a normal PP job

 

[JayJay]

Saw it on petapixel the other day. I just cannot believe it's real.

At least with the Ecce Homo picture there was no going back to the original, obviously not the case here. You mess up the processing, you can always start again; the original shots can't be anywhere near as bad as these.

 

[MK1 Photography]

Daily Mail nuff said

 

[drounding]

Is it 1st April or 15th Jan?

 

[juggler]

There used to be a post on the photographer's facebook page which made it fairly clear it's a joke - but it's gone now.

 

[JayJay]

The faces get most of the attention, not surprisingly, but anyone else noticed the terrible cloning in the backgrounds as well?

 

[Peter Drought]

Still convinced that this is a fake, but people keep referring to the post processing. While that is a very obvious issue, what seems to keep being missed is that the subjects are also not correctly positioned in relation to the sun and the available shadow, which for an available light photograph on a day like that, is "kind of critical".

 

[LongLensPhotography]

There is no way it is not fake.

 

[woof woof]

There is no way it is not fake.

I hope it's real if only so that I know there's someone out there worse than me.

 

[LongLensPhotography]

I hope it's real if only so that I know there's someone out there worse than me.

Somehow I think the posing, sharpness and exposures should be of comparable standards of the editing for it be "genuine" fail.

 

[kgutteridge]

Click bait surely! however I worry that its real