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[–]specialistdeluxe 306 ポイント307 ポイント  (111子コメント)

As a professional in the marketing world i can tell you these are all special shoots with most likely hundreds of photos narrowed to selects. Hate to burst your bubble but this isn't the work of one, but a team. Good photography, well made costume design, beautiful woman, and a good job marketing a persona on reddit. Probably a model boosting their portfolio (if that's what they call it in the modeling world).

I'd like to know more about OP and their crew actually. Well played social campaign as i've seen her several times on the front page.

B+ for the social campaign, however, i'd think about revisiting the 'do it all by myself angle' ;)

[–]allthecats 125 ポイント126 ポイント  (16子コメント)

I'd say it is possible that she does it all herself with at least one assistant. The shots all do seem very staged, considered, as a tripod shot would have to be. I remember this type of "self portrait" being really big on DeviantArt years back, and the quality got to be up to this level at times (believe it or not).

I do have a hunch that this woman, if she does truly do it all herself, does not have to work. I'm a freelance artist myself, and I can't even imagine being able to spend this much time on personal projects because I have to pay rent by working for clients who pay me. Based on the lighting equipment, cameras, etc that must have been used; the props in the shots (including luxury cars); the materials in the gorgeous costumes she makes...this woman definitely has money.

[–]specialistdeluxe 69 ポイント70 ポイント  (5子コメント)

if she does truly do it all herself, does not have to work

Most definitely. Far too much effort involved to be doing this 'for fun'

[–]allthecats 33 ポイント34 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Forgot to mention it also looks like she does cardio 24/7 on top of all that! Freelance art life almost never equates with free time to exercise, as far as I have found!

[–]specialistdeluxe 13 ポイント14 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Haha freelance art life equates to rice and chicken. I'm going to disagree with cardio 24/7 because a freelance art diet keeps you pretty trimmed :P Been there done that. No thanks.

[–]FreakTalent 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

A healthy diet can make your body look exactly like hers. Not too difficult depending on where your body shape is right now.

[–]LiftThingsUpThenDown -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Forgot to mention it also looks like she does cardio 24/7 on top of all that!

lolwut

The result of doing cardio 24/7 would be indistinguishable from simply maintaining weight through diet. Cardio isn't going to significantly influence body composition, so the same results could be achieved simply by not eating. That's literally free and takes no time.

If you're going to posture as the voice of reason, try not to say stupid things.

inb4 "dieting is hard work!" Maybe, maybe not. Some people simply have lower appetite levels, so being skinny is going to be their default. Failing that, there's always stims and cigarettes.

Point being, you have no basis for your imsosmart moment.

[–]reckoner133 [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

Pretty sure last time she hit front page it was established that she's from Beverly Hills.

[–]throwawayfortrashday 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

this woman definitely has money.

Or connections.

[–]whopoopedthebed [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

She did a buzzfeed interview the last time her cake posts made the front page.

[–]RagingNerdaholic 34 ポイント35 ポイント  (0子コメント)

This seems about right.

This is TV fantasy level of perfection, the kind of thing you see on a show where a charismatic protagonist is flawless and impossibly talented at everything and it seems to be made purely for the purpose of making you feel woefully inadequate.

Don't get sucked in; just realize they're paid actors who are adept at portraying an imaginary character with these impossible traits. Behind them is a huge team of writers, directors, set and clothing designers, planners, artistic consultants, etc., who are all coming together to create a very small and neatly-packaged moment.

[–]a_tad_mental 21 ポイント22 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Her background has come up before, her family is incredibly rich, because of this she is able to follow her passion.

[–]specialistdeluxe 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (2子コメント)

again, props to the level of work, but the story is flawed. All i'm saying is there shouldn't be a claim of 'i did it myself' but rather 'me and my talented team'. Great, she can afford it, but credit should be given to those involved. It's great work and i get a little bummed when someone claims it as their own when clearly it's several peoples hard work.

[–]Easilycrazyhat 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's not like she has one every week, or even every month. She pops up a few times a year, plenty of time to do this stuff if that's all you're really doing. Not gonna say I know she's telling the truth, but it's not implausible. Some people are just crazy talented & dedicated.

[–]saibog38 [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

It doesn't strike me as too much for one person to do if they have money to spend on tools/props/supplies and free time from not having to work a day job. Some people are quite proficient at becoming good at lots of things quickly. Mastering them is another matter, but producing her content doesn't really require mastery of anything, just being good at a lot of things.

[–]hofstaders_law 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (0子コメント)

A team of four? I know two photographer/designer pairs that can pull off this level work.

[–]SmartToaster 51 ポイント52 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Had to scroll way to far to find this. You can tell simply by the lighting alone that this is not a one person show. Shit, even the makeup. I mean, this is professional grade clothing design, makeup, photography, and post production and we're supposed to believe that one person has the kind of time to be this good at all of that?

[–]catipillar [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

...She does it all herself, but this is her job, and she supposedly has money, so she has time to cultivate the skill set.

[–]BlueHeartBob 49 ポイント50 ポイント  (12子コメント)

She's also that girl that "does" all of this stuff. I call complete bullshit on the whole thing. So she's a painter, cake decorator, a seamstress, costume maker, photoshop master, photographer, set designer, and like a dozen other things? Yeah, looks like some pretty rich girl who's out to land some coverage.

[–]thaw12 16 ポイント17 ポイント  (1子コメント)

She's a professional photographer working in L.A. for "Cal Martini Color Group".

[–]tempestbloke [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

Keep talking. Perhaps cite a source or two?

[–]weary_dreamer -3 ポイント-2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

I scuba dive, have a pilot's License, worked as an attorney (graduated Ivy League), own a successful restaurant, have a dog training certification, a yoga teaching certification, skydive, and am, for all it's worth, attractive and only 30 years old.

I am very good at a lot of things. I fail to see why she cant be as well, especially since they're interrelated: shes great with makeup, and awesome baker (cakes and cookies etc), she has great taste (fashion, props, design), is a competent seamstress, and is good at photography. Basically, Tim Burton's dream 50's housewife with a great sense of humor and a camera.

[–]TokiTokiTokiToki [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

If you were a girl I'd marry you. You sound perfect.

[–]skyroket 11 ポイント12 ポイント  (1子コメント)

The lonelygrl15 crew got bored of retirement.

[–]Viatos 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Is that bad? Did people not enjoy lonelygirl15? I thought it was a really cool setup. Maybe lacking in polish, but very fun and very creative.

[–]PolPotatoe 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

She also has a magic levitating camera since only one of the photos is shot from a tripod ;)

[–]raohthekenoh 32 ポイント33 ポイント  (10子コメント)

Damn, bringing the reality check. Gotta kill all the dreams of these thirsty fellows. This having been said, it's impossible to take those pictures without a team.

[–]B_crunk 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (6子コメント)

Nothing's impossible if you believe in yourself!!

[–]PonyHijinks 11 ポイント12 ポイント  (5子コメント)

You joke, but in reality all of these negative fuckers raining down "can'ts" and "not possibles" have zero imagination, and even less drive. Fuck I'm tired of this pretentious "let's disprove op because I can't think of a way to do this" mentality. God damnit people, there actually ARE talented people out there. Just because you're not one of them doesn't change the possibility of their existence. And you know what? Fuck you! Who the hell even cares if a post is entirely semantically accurate?! "Oh, woe is me, some stranger posted some cool pictures on the internet but lied to me about their precise creation method." For fucks sake. Enjoy life before your own inadequacies drown your sorry ass.

EDIT: spelling for clarity

[–]hotbox4u 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I think you are living a bit in a dream world here. All the guys did were pointing out the obvious. There is this strange persona that wants to appear as the normal girl from next door, that does this shit because she's obviously super talented and does this all because, hey it's Halloween!

I don't care for the reasons as long as people see it what it is. Because if we don't analyze and point out that this is fake, some other people might get the idea that they don't do enough. It supports the wrong standards. And it's a lie.

Why did she not made a post with a text like, look what i made happen with a lot of work by a lot of people, a great team and great artists who made this sets, props and photographs! Why is that not an option? It wouldn't make the photos less cool.

But for whatever reasons they went for the lie. And that's why a lot of people protest all those rolemodels, demonstrate against the part of the industry that photoshops the models to make them look even more perfect and despite the media that tries to tell us what is beautiful and what not, because it sets unhealthy and unrealistic overgeneralized standards.

But not only that. What really bothers me about PR stunts like this is that there are indeed people (and it looks like you are one of them) who really think that a single person could pull that off. It's one of the greater myths in our society that people who made it always seem to made it that far because they did it all by themselves. We call people self-made millionaires. Which couldn't be further away from the truth.

Behind every great success, behind every person that made it to the top, is always a group of people that helped this person and made it possible that they came that far.

Name me one person who you think made it to the top alone , and i go ahead and show you their "support group".

No one makes it alone. Think about your own life and you will see that there were always people who helped you to get were you are right now. Sure, often you did all the hard work. But every time you made it big there were people who gave you a chance, taught you how to move further, inspired you to archive you goals or straight up worked together with you to make it happen.

The problem is that those people rarely get the credits for it. And sometimes the person who gets all the credits tries actively to make it look like they came up with it alone.

So i think it is very justified to call out persons who try to get all the credits, try to set unrealistic standard and try to make you believe a lie.

[–]Salacar [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

If you think these aren't staged, then you're kidding yourself. Coming from a family of metal smiths, the photo of her doing metal work is so obvious.

My grandfather, with 40 years of experience and skin like rugged leather, still wouldn't do metal work in a pristine white, sleveless t-shirt and only sunglasses as the only protection.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with making content like this, just don't lie to people for no good reason.

[–]clancy6969 -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (1子コメント)

She is probably on her way to your house right now to thank her white knight with a smooch!

[–]Easilycrazyhat -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Cause someone couldn't possibly be tired of all the negativity on Reddit. Jesus you're sad.

[–]PenusFlyTrapp -3 ポイント-2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Everyone's insecurity is showing. People really hate to see that someone is better than them in any way.

[–]ok_but 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

DaVinci did it.

[–]TheSecretMe -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Why? It's mostly a lot of work. If you're willing to put in the work, you hardly need a team.

[–]darien_gap [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

It can be done. It just takes a week instead of six hours. Maybe two days with a LiveView monitor.

[–]ChristineHMcConnell[S] 36 ポイント37 ポイント  (8子コメント)

Yes this stuff takes a lot of time but it's not impossible to do on your own. It just takes me a lot of planning and tons of prep work :)

[–]Sparcrypt 52 ポイント53 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Don't get me wrong, super impressive work and I have no doubt you could do it on your own/may well have.

But with your username being your actual name, the photos being extremely professional it's pretty clear you did this for the marketing value. The 'metalwork' one is the real giveaway - 100% staged for a good photo. The one of you at the sewing machine as well where you say you're using a tripod? Perfect lighting and positioning.

All of which is, obviously, completely fine. You're at minimum a great photographer and if you did do everything solo then you have a heap of other talents as well, as well as having the looks to be a model (assuming that's you in the photos, which from your site I gather it is).

My guess is after the huge traffic increase you saw from your reddit cake a while back (which was awesome) you decided to replicate things. Great idea if you ask me, and it's quality original content.. not going to hear many complaints if you decide to make it a regular thing. Certainly if I lived where you work and suddenly found myself in need of a photographer this would stick in my mind, so hopefully it does for others/gets you business.

[–]Heffalumpen 36 ポイント37 ポイント  (1子コメント)

The 'metalwork' one is the real giveaway - 100% staged for a good photo.

What? You don't do metal work in a thin white t-shirt using sunglasses as the only eye protection?

[–]turbosexophonicdlite [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

Those are regular glasses. And yes, I do. She isn't welding, she's grinding metal. The only protection necessary is glasses.

[–]hsadmin -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I think it's kind of a compliment to have so many people not believe you could possibly be as talented as you are... and your work is amazing by the way.

[–]CJ_Guns -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Don't listen to the haters. Some people here just try to diminish others' accomplishments because they're so unhappy with their own lives. It doesn't matter with what purpose you post things here, they're all beautifully imagined and executed. Keep it up!

[–]breakshot 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Do you care to elaborate on your process at all or is that "pulling the curtain back," for lack of a batter phrase?

edit: a word

[–]Diomedes33 -5 ポイント-4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Really amazing work! I really admire everything you do! You are extremely talented and your doing something you love. I support you all the way! :) Btw, you are also very attractive! So, hey, you got the perfect combination of talents to do this kind of work! So Keep it going! :)

[–]Power_Pickle -5 ポイント-4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah, it looks hard, but hardly impossible to do solo with talent and dedication.

So, when do you get your TV show?

[–]ParlorSoldier 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

these are all special shoots with most likely hundreds of photos narrowed to selects.

Uh, Of course? Any amateur photographer takes dozens and dozens of shots to get a couple that are exactly right. There's nothing special about that.

Hate to burst your bubble but this isn't the work of one, but a team.

I see a pretty woman who can sew, use a hammer, set up a tripod, and is good at Photoshop. None of this is really all that far-fetched for one person to pull off. That Wonder Woman photo is nothing more than a dimly lit room, a costume, a fan, and Photoshop.

People act like she's trying to pass this stuff off as though it's not a fantasy. Of course it's a fantasy, that's exactly what's she's trying to create.

[–]CopeSe7en 16 ポイント17 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Looking through post history the styles of all her 'art' don't add up to one persons portfolio even if they were talented in so any fields. Definitely something going on here and judging by the Beverly Hill pie post it looks like a rich girl who's daddy invested in her modeling career.

[–]specialistdeluxe 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'd also like to note how easy this is to actually do in a social campaign. In 56 minutes i managed to get 151 points on reddit, several replies, probably people searching her, etc etc. Now, lets say hypothetically there were several of us working for OP, we've successfully managed to bump OP in little to no time flat. Generated content, boosted views astronomically, and initiated social conversation in the span of hours. The entertainment world pays buckoo bucks for exactly what's happening in this very thread :D

[–]dicklord666 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (8子コメント)

I was actually being sarcastic so no bubbles have been burst on my side. It's typical reddit promotion bullshit which is common here and is achievable by shoving a small sum of money up reddit mods' ass. Thanks for the explanation though, at least you're smarter than the average Joe's sitting here and eating the shit thrown at them by reddit mods

[–]thatool 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Why do you think the mods had anything to do with this? This is worth more upvotes than all the other bullshit on the front page.

[–]dicklord666 -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (2子コメント)

May be they do, may be they don't. The impact reddit has on the Internet as a whole is massive. It now has the power of ruining businesses, like that stupid couple that appeared in Chef Ramsey's show, and escalating the profits to two folds like in case of that piece of crap bar that has a ranch sauce with a price tag of $1000 as posted last year.

I am just saying I won't be surprised if mods get favors from these users whether it be in form of money or some extra pictures etc. I say this because I've seen mods block posts from certain users regarding the Edward Snowden documents in world news. Like any other site, reddit is a privately owned corporate site that's now even used by artists to promote their movies and stuff. The irony of it all is that on one hand reddit tries to convince people of the illusion of freedom government has imposed on evey American and then proceeds to post an AMA with the president responsible for running the danger corrupt government.

[–]nuclearbunker 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

if i remember correctly the Kitchen Nightmares crew went back to that restaurant recently and most of the customers they talked to had no idea about all the controversy. they were in the news recently for freaking out on someone, though

[–]thatool 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Mods getting 'favours' wouldnt even help anything here, she's getting the upvotes all on her own merit. Im sure she's using it to further her career or fame or whatever that's fine by me.

I say this because I've seen mods block posts from certain users regarding the Edward Snowden documents in world news.

That sounds completely fine really. /r/worldnews is a shithole of repetitive clickbait blogspam by creepy powerusers

[–]Leporad 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Let me insult the average person here and expect to get upvotes.

[–]Otahyoni 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Reddit is snarky as fuck lately.

[–]kapac 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I feel like the longer you're on reddit the more you start to notice it. The trends in comments didn't used to jump out at me until I'd already lurked/been on reddit a couple years. There's a lot of snark in any post, but posts featuring pretty women or black people get the most. I need to stop spending so much time in the comments sections though, it just bums me out.

[–]dicklord666 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hurry! Hide your up votes, you wouldn't someone stealing them from you -_-

[–]HumptyLumpy 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Correct, she is a professional makeup artist and photographer, and like you I seriously doubt she could possibly know enough about makeup or photography to do it herself. I mean just look at her, she's attractive. No way she could do anything with her life

[–]specialistdeluxe 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Sarcasm noted. Again, i commend the work, it's well done. But stating it's done by a single person is a stretch. Also noted in another reply that it's entirely possible, but highly unlikely.

Carry on sir/maam.

[–]weary_dreamer 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Guys, she's an ARTIST. what part about it is so crazy? Look up her comment history. She does amazing projects and posts them.

[–]rollin20s 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

WAKE UP SHEEPLE!

[–]EvenAssholesNeedHugs -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hug.

[–]son_nequitur 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Seems totally plausible that she does it all herself if she just takes a long-ass time to do it. A team like you describe could knock out a shot like these in a few days. A single person would take weeks or months. But there's no reason they couldn't.

A good team can do an order of magnitude more than an individual, but an individual can do what a team can with an order of magnitude more time.

[–]bubleve 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I have a few friends that do amazing work by themselves after their full time jobs. The can take half a day or longer setting up a single picture, it is completely possible. Whether or not OP did this herself, I feel none of us can speculate on based purely on the output.. surely.

[–]TheSecretMe 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

You can easily do this by yourself if you have enough time to sink into it.

Most of the time when I'm building something I'm just really not interested in wasting time on making sure the picture of me with a metal grinder is perfectly composed and photographed.

[–]darien_gap [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

I don't think so. Hundreds of photos, definitely, but easier than you'd think because she does composite shots, as do most commercial photographers these days who do this sort of shoot. (Some of her shots are explicitly composites because she appears in the same pic more than once, and she has explained the production details in an earlier post.) Any halfway decent Photoshop practitioner with a hundred shots to work from can make almost anything work. (I myself stopped paying to hire a food stylist because I knew what could be fixed in post and what couldn't, and I'd end up shooting fast and then spending more time cleaning up in post, even on problematic foods that get drippy or melt or wilt quickly under the lights.) These costume-oriented photo sessions are comparatively forgiving... nothing melts. They're elaborate, but not impossible for someone with ample time to pull off working alone, and they're obviously heavily post-processed.

I say this as someone who directed my first commercial large-format photo session back in '86. We previewed with polaroids back then and didn't know if we got the shot for a couple of nerve-racking days, and errors had to be fixed with an airbrush or Scitex machine. With today's DSLRs and LiveView monitors, this stuff isn't very hard to do solo frankly, from a technical standpoint, because everything in her frames are static (the smoke looks composited... that's the one thing I see in her photography that I couldn't shoot solo with a timer... I've shot smoke and it sucks). It just takes a lot of work and a broad skill set to get the costumes and props, and even those are easily touched up in pshop. We're talking about a woman with three cats... she clearly does this stuff 24/7.

It's impressive, but not magic. I personally find the speculation and implications about her obsessions/personality more interesting than the how-to. Because at every decent film school there are a handful of polymath types who could do all this stuff, but they tend to apply it to bigger things, like making movies. But movies are necessarily collaborative, and she seems to have almost an author's aversion to collaboration.

[–]CaptnYossarian 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (3子コメント)

I might be missing something obvious, but what is she advertising?

[–]specialistdeluxe 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (1子コメント)

views. Quite simply she's generating traffic and/or attention to herself, generating ad revenue, views on sites, etc etc. In the marketing world content means almost nothing, views and impressions (basically numbers) get you paid.

[–]CaptnYossarian 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

For...? There's no link except for her Instagram. Instagram doesn't pay on the basis of views or likes as far as I can tell.

[–]AKnightAlone 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

How to get karma. I think specialistdeluxe is actually being a twat. You can't really say what is and isn't done by one person if you weren't there.

[–]always_under_the_gun -3 ポイント-2 ポイント  (15子コメント)

Could be one person. Burst, timer, and general lighting knowledge.

[–]Alexplode 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (3子コメント)

I could be Brad Pitt.

[–]Jonah_and_the_Quail 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Are you Brad Pitt?

[–]theycallmejugzy 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Are you?

[–]Snow88 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

There are thousands of Brad Pitt's in America who didn't go into acting or modeling.

[–]RagingNerdaholic 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

... and costume design, cosmetology, set design, artistic direction, seamstress, metalwork, scene scouting, digital photo manipulation, marketing and modeling.

Any one of those things is a full time job, but you go right ahead and hang onto this "one person doing everything perfectly" narrative if you prefer.

[–]specialistdeluxe 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (7子コメント)

It's entirely possibly, although highly unlikely. If so, they're a professional in the entertainment industry with 'friends' that help considerably.

Again, I'd be interested to hear more about OP (background, etc) because if this is the work of one she's clearly a pro in the entertainment world. And if not, should probably be. Clearly a marketing angle here, with bumps to this persona and/or brand she's playing up.

Also, don't get me wrong, very well done. It's just that there is something we're not seeing or being told.

EDIT: Highly unlikely with reference to the fact that i do this kind of stuff for a living and know the effort it takes to produce content like this

[–]FountainsOfFluids -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (4子コメント)

I'm open to contrary evidence, like some photos of her as a model that she hasn't made herself, but until that appears I'm not just going to take your opinion over all the overwhelming evidence she has created over the past few years.

[–]specialistdeluxe 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (3子コメント)

I've been on shoots like these, participated in these social campaigns, fooled millions of people like yourself. All part of the play my friend. In fact, my bets are, if you have the time and feel like putting in the effort, a lot of the replies to her posts are consistently the same people and upvotes.

Fortunately, the fun part is the fact that we're discussing it. Generating buzz for OP, bumping her brand/image, getting them/her numbers and having fun with it all. Taking away the fact that it's not really a single person shouldn't deter you, just go with it and if you enjoy her content, then forget about people like me. ;)

[–]FountainsOfFluids 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (2子コメント)

But seriously, lay out the end game for me. She gets a few thousand upvotes, then converts that to cash somehow? Enough cash for it to be worth the time for a whole team of people to trick us for months and months? She's not even pointing us to her blog. It's all imgur hosted.

Sorry, but it makes much more sense that it's a single person with a variety of artistic skills, one of which is photography that allows her to show off her other skills.

[–]specialistdeluxe 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

The end game is brand recognition. In this case the brand is her, and she's selling herself and her story. Now, the people involved are equally part of the play, using this front page post, the numbers involved with the views on imgur, google searches, and anything else you can think of that can benefit from large traffic as case study material for the next gig. Not sure what the gig is here, other than perhaps ad bucks, Followers = money. OR from another persons reply, she may be incredibly rich and needs something to talk about with her other rich friends. Also, nearly every platform on the web tracks nearly everything and you can essentially convert that to cash flow. Imgur is no different.

[–]FountainsOfFluids 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Well, check out her instagram/flickr pages. She's been doing it for years now. I'll go ahead and hold my breath waiting for her to convert it to Phase 3 (profit).

[–]pm-me-a-stray-cat -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Bless your heart. We need more people like you.

[–]CopeSe7en 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Pro photog here... Nope.

[–]Havoc_7 -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (0子コメント)

As a photographer with free time, and a lot of different skills I've obtained over the years, I disagree. Not only is it super insulting to say

Hate to burst your bubble but this isn't the work of one, but a team. Good photography, well made costume design, beautiful woman, and a good job marketing a persona on reddit. Probably a model boosting their portfolio (if that's what they call it in the modeling world).

but it's pretty sexist and backwards as well. GASP She's a multi-talented woman! Impossible! She must have a team, she must be a model, she must have people helping her, because women can't do these things!

Doing a reverse image search on these yields... almost nothing. Nothing that would lead to monetary gain, anyways. She's also been on Flickr since 2008, and has uploaded primarily photos of other people.

For the most part, it looks like she's using nice glass, some beauty dishes, and some strobes. I wish I was better looking, or else I'd use myself as a model predominantly for my shoots, too. As a photographer, I can tell you none of what she is doing is out of reach or reason.

As a baker, likewise. As an artist, I hate her, because she can paint better than I. She's got a great amount of talent for creative things, and has obviously put in a ton of work in her projects. It doesn't make you look like you're in on some 'secret' because you're in advertising. You look like a sexist jerk who works in advertising; huge surprise there.