It was brought to my attention recently that one of my images was being used to market boudoir photography services by a ’so-called’ photographer in Edmonton (Kaitlyne Tyner - The Boudoir Ladies). She went to the trouble of removing my watermark on the image below to promote bridal boudoir services to unsuspecting women. This is absolutely not acceptable. It sickens me to think that a person would try to fool the general public like this especially when women are trusting them with photography of such an intimate nature. Very, very shady, indeed. So, when looking into hiring a photographer for your boudoir pictures, please research them before booking your appointment ladies. Look for consistency with the style of photography they are featuring in their galleries and ads. This girls images (which were all apparently stolen) had different ‘looks’ to them and I could tell they were not from the same photographer. So frustrating.
Thank you to the professional photographer who alerted me to this.
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What a hack!
I think it’s pretty sad that a “photographer” would actually resort to using someone else’s work to promote themselves.
That sort of action either tells me that she’s: 1) not confident in her own portfolio, 2) has a lack of organization since she couldn’t set up a photo shoot for her own promotional purposes, 3) she is a perv/con-artist/GwC (Guy/Girl with Camera) who isn’t really a photographer, but someone who is looking to rip off the public by either taking photos of women for indecent purposes or just plain out stealing money from unsuspecting victims.
It is great to hear that the network of legitimate photogs in the industry are looking out for others!
I thought the same thing. Fortunately, I think I have it under control now. She was very apologetic and basically said her ads weren’t working using her own images and she wanted to see if she could get more bites using someone else’s. Yikes! Very naive girl.
SHUT UP! I am shocked. I mean, I have heard of people using images before, but to promote boudoir photography services - and it’s not even your own image????? It’s false to the client in what they offer. I hope you took some legal approaches!
I know, huh? Really bad judgement on her end. REALLY bad…
What a bummer! That is why I started putting my logo in the center of the image, I know it still can be used, but at least they’d have to spend more time trying to remove the watermark from the shot. There will always be people like that, and the worst is that you never know who and how many of them might be using your work as theirs… I hope she learns a good lesson from it all and the least amount of clients that she and you photographed gets hurt by the whole situation…
That is so not on!