Fauxtography and other appallingly edited images - From anywhere

[Legoshi]

There's a saying that everybody can be a photographer, but unfortunately it doesn't hold up true with certain people. There is a certain type of photographer known as a fauxtographer, amateurs or pretentious people who think they're great at photography when their image quality and skills show otherwise. Here are some examples.

https://youarenotaphotographer.com/

 

[SSF2T Old User]

ok that prego one actually made me "lol"

 

[Sperghetti]

I love the child beauty pageant ones that are so edited and airbrushed that it just sort of ends up looking like somebody cut and pasted the facial features on.

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

I used to browse that website pretty often back in the day. Some of those photos were hilariously bad. I knew some people IRL who were shitty amateur photographers who charged people money for their "services" of out-of-focus photography with oversaturation and HDR. Here's some gems from that same website:

What's funny is that I know people on Facebook who unironically think these kind of photos are unique and use them as profile pictures...mostly just trashy couples.