Originally posted by graeme83 Yes but those are all photos that could exist in reality had the photographer or advertiser the time or luck with weather etc.. Cheating slightly to make deadlines or glossy adverts look good is one thing, this is on a different level.
But either way by the sounds of it she has broken the rules of a fair few of those competitions.
Yeah, I love Conceptual Photography, and it's always been around, but Lisa really has to accept responsibility here. She might pop up and say she hired a digital artist off the Net and he incorporated someone else's pictures, but that's an unprofessional attitude. Your name on the work, your reputation!
Here's a Phillippe Halsman from 1936 (that's Dali in it):
and here are some contemporary examples I like:
Credit:Jonni
Credit: Michelle Joyce
Credit: HiVerbalFan