With this photographer there was a concentrated effort to crop out and sticker over existing watermarks. No. Just NO.
If you don’t have photos of your own setup, don’t go trolling for them on Pinterest/Google/Facebook. Take your camera, take your props you intend to use, set it all up and take a photo. It’s not really that difficult.
Be better. Do. better. Stop Stealing.
(I think I may make this my new tagline)
It has been a while since we’ve had someone brazen enough to toss their watermark on everything.
Many of these sessions double over onto the Pixieset gallery. It’s late, I have a raging headache so I’m not sourcing all of them but rather posting the gallery screencap below the sourced collage.
There are quite a lot of suspicious images on her various pages that I couldn’t find sources for, make sure to check and make sure none are yours.
Edit 8/15/19 @ 9AM
I had to call it a night around 2AM last night due to my raging headache.
She took down her Facebook Page in the wee hours of the morning but the pixieset and instagram remain.
Allegedly her excuse is that hackers did it. Because of course they did.
I am adding additional images from her pages that I didn’t get a chance to source last night. I’m also adding her services page from her Facebook Page that had a bunch of stolen images as well.
There are still a lot of images I’m waiting for sources on.
I’ve been told that this photographer has been schooled many times about why you can’t and shouldn’t use photos to promote your work that isn’t your own yet here we are. Sigh. She claims for some of these images she’s just showing the gowns that can be used but in the model calls that’s not very transparent so here we are.
There are a lot of images that I can’t source due to there not being a source and/or the watermark being so pixelated it’s impossible to read.
In site related news, I’ve started a Patreon to support the running of this site.
Update 8/21/18: She posted a few times in the comments of the Facebook Post stating she had permission but the admin of the page the bulk of the images came from said she did not. Furthermore she’d been told in July to stop using the images but continued to do so.
What has been the most eye opening part of all of this is the way that the owner of Images by Eire Photography has reacted to the outing.
Also, watermarked or not, it’s still illegal to steal someone else’s intellectual property. As a photographer, the moment the shutter is clicked, you own the copyright of the image.
Here’s her admitting that while she did use the image, it’s not stealing, that’s totally a different thing.
So after her comments (there are more but I’m stopping before she starts dropping the f bombs, you can read the whole crazy thread here). Some members decided to peruse her gallery and shock! There are more stolen images on her page.
Most of the photographers have NOT been contacted by Rachel as of 6/9/13.
Can’t find the original source but appears to be a before/after from acne medicine NOT Photoshop.
These images are by my friend Jenna Cole whom runs the That Wife blog and are of her son. What’s creepy is that Jenna did not do the editing on the after… eep.
I’ve got a new look, a new logo and now need a header… but it’s looking a bit better here I think! Let me know what you think! Don’t forget to be a Fan on Facebook to keep up with what’s going on here at Photo Stealers.
Lidia is another photographer that uses others work. When confronted, she swore the work is hers and she has copies of it on her memory cards. Mmmm hmmm….
Her main webpage.
Contact page.
About page.
Pricing page.
Portfolio page from her wix page.
If you’ve noticed, all of the images of the senior on Lidia Leann’s page are actually from Kacy Kizer.
Lidia’s Facebook page where we see Kacy’s images again.
Lidia’s Senior gallery, where the same images are repeated that are Kacy’s.
Well, I guess there is some truth here since she edited this image to have a double exposure.
I love this so, so much. Because you totally can’t put images ON a memory card right? The ONLY way is to take the pictures! Oh and watermarking can ONLY be done once… ever. It also totally can’t be taken off or put on with photoshop magic 😉
This one may have made me laugh the most… yes. She totally took all of these, including the one from TWILIGHT! She’s THAT popular that she was on set while the moving was being filmed! It’s totally on her memory card!
All of these images are stolen from various sources (l to r, top to bottom)
In the past I haven’t been listing the images that I can’t find sources for but I’m sick of these thieves claiming they took all the stolen work down, when they only took the ones I outed down and keep the rest of the Pinterest/Tumblr’d sourced images up since I didn’t post those.
UPDATE:
The websites are down and the Facebook page has been cleared of all stolen works outed here.
This wall of shame is dedicated to photographers that feel that it's okay to steal others' work and post it as their own. Oh I'm sorry, it's okay to let their "web designer" do it.
