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by larwent 1611 days ago
It's the typical GANS face layout, with a blurry background, eyes centered and cropped to the face. It's certainly possible those are could be real people, but in my experience law firms usually have upper-body shots of the lawyers with their arms folded, or standing together as a team or with a client.

I wouldn't catch these at first glance, but the older gentleman specifically stands out to me with the

1. tuft of hair above the right eyebrow

2. teeth far offset from center

3. soap-bubble colored noise around the hair features

These aren't unusual on their own (except #3 maybe) but all together they make the photo seem fake.

2 comments

A really easy clue (as is the case on that site) is if the location of the eyes are aligned almost perfectly as if to the pixel.
The crop is super unusual for professional photos. No photographer is going to cut into the subject's chin