Family’s hilariously bad professional photos have to be seen to be believed
When Missouri woman Pam Zaring booked a professional photographer to take pictures of her family, she was hoping for some family photos to cherish for a lifetime.
However, when Pam received the finished product from the photographer, she was left speechless. Her family’s faces, including her two sons and mother, had been strangely edited to look like cartoon characters – or that’s what she’s assumed because the photographer says the editing was “intentional”.
Pam wrote on Facebook: “OK. This is NOT a joke. We paid a photographer, who claimed to be a professional, for a family photo shoot. Please see these FOR REAL photos she delivered to us.”
The photographer was paid between $US200 and $US250 (between AU$250 and AU$315).
“She said the shadows were really bad on the beautiful, clear, sunny day and that her professor never taught her to retouch photos,” Pam continued.
“I literally have not laughed this hard in YEARS!!!!! You can’t make this stuff up.....again, this is NOT a joke.”
Pam shared the family photos on her Facebook, which have gone viral with thousands of shares and comments.
When some commenters raised a sceptical eyebrow as to whether a stuff up this bad could really happen, Pam was quick to reassure that the photos were legitimate.
“This is not real,” wrote one commenter with Pam replying: “This IS real!!!! I kid you not!”
“This is awful surely you got your money back??? Wow!” another person wrote.
“Nope!! She stands by her work,” Pam replied.
In another comment, Pam wrote: “This is not a joke. This is legitimately the final product I received in the mail yesterday. I passed my furious mark months ago when she wouldn’t send us anything. I was fully prepared to be scammed, money gone, and no final product! So the humour was much easier to find. Trust me, at one point my blood boiled anytime I was asked about the status of our photos!!”
Thankfully, Pam and her family are able to see the humour in the situation.
“This is the most expensive comedy I’ve ever paid for!!!!” she said.
At least the family have photos they will remember forever – just not in the way they hoped for.