FB: https://www.facebook.com/AmBPhotography1
I see this time and time again… a photographer using someone else’s images in a genre they are looking to expand into. Here we have a photographer who is looking to get into weddings and posted a few images from weddings she claims to have photographed in Florida. She didn’t.
It’s Fun to Flirt Web: http://itsfuntoflirt.com/
It’s Fun to Flirt Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ItsFunToFlirt (currently down)
It’s Fun to Flirt Pinterest Gallery: http://www.pinterest.com/itsfuntoflirt/pins/
Phoopla Web: http://phoopla.smugmug.com/
Phoopla Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/phooplaphoto (currently down)
What started as a boudoir photographer that was stealing images for ads and their gallery (which is oddly hosted on Pinterest) turned into a photographer duo that is an entire new chapter to Photo Stealers.
When caught, the response is not Fuck You. That just gets back to me which means that I need to dig more.
I also am highly amused by the Phoopla tagline, “Fighting the good fight against snobby, overcharging, under-delivering ‘professional’ photographers and designers” and define phoopla as “that feeling when you finally find a photographer that you can truly trust.” I can’t make this shit up.
Update @ 8:15PM EST: I’ve added a bit more to the post as the Phoopla owners are claiming not to be affiliated with It’s Fun to Flirt which is just silly since it was ON PHOOPLA’S FACEBOOK PAGE.
Web: http://myboundlesswedding.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/boundlessweddingvideography
Wedding Wire: https://www.weddingwire.com/biz/boundless-wedding-videography-markham/bcb65fefb7ae8664.html
They have not taken EVERYTHING, all the images in their website gallery appear to be theirs (I think this company has gone through a few name changes). It goes off the rails in the blog though with images and copy coming from various sources on the internet – they do credit, somewhat but with initials and sometimes wrong. NOT how you credit your source.
Update 03/20/2014
They are still using many stolen images, refusing to take down images.
Web: http://photographicinspirations.webs.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PhotographicInspirationsMobileStudios
Facebook2: https://www.facebook.com/inspirationsagency?filter=1
If you are caught with your hand in the cookie jar, it’s probably best to a) apologize and b) delete EVERYTHING you took. It’s not a good idea to claim the images are all yours save for that ONE boo-boo and insult the photographers.
PS: Your rants may look silly if you left the watermarks on the images from the photographers you stole from.
Web: http://www.ssphotographycompany.us/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ssphotographycompany/
I do not understand why so many photographers use someone else’s images for their own mini session advertisements. I just don’t get it. This photographer was warned a few times not to do this and kept replacing the images the photographers told her to take down with new images that still were not hers. Sigh.
