Taking photo shop a little too far....

Real estate agency slammed after photos of property leave out huge water tower

 

That's ridiculous. It's lying, really - even if another agency took the photo's, they used them. You couldn't NOT know they'd been 'touched up' prior to using them for your listing.

 

At least the water pressure would be good.

 

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

 

When there is a drought, a short walk and some buckets should do the trick.

 

I'm all for enhancing photos to better present a property, have a duty to achieve highest possible sale / rent for a vendor / landlord.

But this breaches several ACLs surely.

 

Enhancing as in exposure adjustment, local/global contrast, white balance/saturation, increasing dynamic range etc. All well and good and part any photographers workflow.

BUT....adding and removing elements (except for tenants possessions that they wish to keep private) is simply misrepresentation, especially now that images are not just something that is on a flyer or put up in an agency window. Buyers/Tenants use these images to make some fairly important decisions. Inspecting a property (especially interstate) that has been misrepresented in advertising can end up being a waste of time for the agent and the buyer/tenant.

Hiding rubbish, HT powerlines, removing plants and foliage, replacing the sky or cloning patchy or completely neglected grass is unethical in my opinion.

Still hard not to laugh in this instance.

 

I honestly don't see anything wrong with it. I've made a few minor alterations:

 

Just like smoothing over transmission lines, mobile phone towers & motorway exhaust stacks.

 

The right angle can make all the difference in a photo.

 

Interesting that the photo of the water tower looks like it has had some Photoshoping too.
Notice the power lines and balustrade don't line up properly.

 

I think it's the google maps street view pic where 2 pics get joined together.

 

typical selfish arrogant lying agent BS response

'oh the photos came from somewhere else'

lying scumbag, no way he wouldnt know, he knows the area, he would have put the ad up,

he wuld have approved photos, he would have got many other people saying it

******* liar

I just wish you could fine the agency $10k per every incident like this,

then the agents would stop this crap

 

Agents are pretty stupid. But that must make the general population stupid to fall for it

However if i turned up, i would be very very annoyed especially if idrove far or had eveb done pre work such as preapproval

 

I wonder how much more interest the property has had?

Did the water tank sell? Coat of paint and she's apples

 

I think lots of lay people think that if it's a legitimate photo without use of Photoshop then it's not deceptive, but I'm not sure that's the approach a court would take.

Factual is not equal to "not misleading".

 

Perhaps they were simply trying to suggest people paint the water tank sky-blue?

Seriously they should get a nasty fine for this. I've seen people buy sight unseen (stupid, but it happens). This is completely mis-representing the product.

To the agents credit though, one of the photos of the back yard on the actual listing does show the tank.
31a Penshurst Avenue, Penshurst Real Estate For Sale

 

What about the old bag of chips, huge bag only 1/3 full. Atleast they're getting a full house