Martin Torre Photography No pictures from Photographer, No Response and Very Poor Service Woodbridge Virginia

Martin has covered up his irresponsible business practices with false claims. The copy of email he posted on this site on 1/30/08 was NOT an email reply from the multiple inquiries on the photos. The photographer sent this one email on the very same day of the photo shoot in September just to show me one measly sample on an email attachment. This was NOT the written agreement we had in place. The photographer is now attempting to cover up the facts with lies. The written agreement was TFCD (Time for CD) and documented in his own words.

MARTIN TORRE'S FALSE CLAIM - He posted an email this on site on 1/30/08 claiming that he replied to me by email requests and that he provided me the images from the photo shoot.
THE FACT - He emailed me a few hours after the photo shoot that same day and attached only one measly sample image. I never received the full photo images, as stated on a written email agreement made earlier in which Martin Torre stated that he would provide me a CD of the photo images.

MARTIN TORRE'S FALSE CLAIM This was a project just for the purposes of teaching a junior photographer on lighting.
THE FACT A written email agreement from Martin Torre states that I will receive the photo images on a CD. It was only a few weeks before the photo shoot that he decided to get a junior photographer involved to show lighting techniques. The bottom line is there was still an original agreement that I would receive the CD photo images. There is no document that states that both parties agreed to reverse on the original agreement.

MARTIN TORRE'S FALSE CLAIM - He claims that he replied to my multiple emails.
THE FACT - He emailed me once on the very same day of the photo shoot in September. He initiated that email to show me one measly photo on an email attachment. That email was NOT A REPLY on the multiple requests I made to him over the COURSE OF SEVERAL MONTHS. I emailed him seven (7) times in October, November and December to ask him when he will send me the photos on the following dates:

Oct. 9, 2007 - No response from photographer Martin Torre on status of photos in CD
Oct. 18, 2007 - No response from photographer Martin Torre
Oct. 22, 2007 - No response from photographer Martin Torre
Nov. 20, 2007 - No response from photographer Martin Torre
Nov. 25, 2007 Left voicemail on Martins cell phone No Response from Martin Torre
Nov. 25, 2007 - No response from photographer Martin Torre
Dec. 10, 2007 - No response from photographer Martin Torre
Dec. 23, 2007 - No response from photographer Martin Torre

Here is the copy of the email threads below proving that I emailed Martin Torre and that he ignored my numerous requests in October, November and December. Also note that I called him and left him a voicemail on November 25th with no repsonse, and my email states that I did so. Again, no response from this irresponsible photographer.


From
to martin@torrephotography.com
date martin@torrephotography.com
subject Re: Slightly

Hi Martin,

How's the wedding photography world coming along? Just checking in to see how the edits to the photos are coming along. I hoped your friend Janet got some good tips out of the photoshoot.
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From Martin Torre
to
date Oct 10, 2007 10:43 PM
subject RE: Slightly

The world of wedding photography sucks right now.

I'm in Lake Tahoe until next week.

Martin Torre
Owner-Photographer
Torre Photography LLC
703-618-8897
Sent from my Palm Treo
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From
To Martin Torre martin@torrephotography.com
Date Re: Slightly

Hi Martin,

I hope all is well. I wanted to know when I will get the edited images?
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From
To Martin Torre martin@torrephotography.com
Date Oct 22, 2007 6:44 PM
Subject Re: Slightly

Hi Martin: Just wanted to touch base on my two previous emails. Could you let me know where we stand on the final images from the Sept. 8th photoshoot?
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From
to Martin Torre martin@torrephotography.com
date Nov 20, 2007 11:43 PM
subject Re: Slightly

Hello! How are you feeling these days? I just got over a nasty cold.
I received my flu vaccine two weeks ago. Whoever said that you don't
catch a cold from the flu vaccine must be wrong! This is the 2nd time
I got sick in the past 5 years right after I got my Vaccine. I don't
think it's a coincidence. Well let me know when I can get the CD of my
photoshoot. I'm curious how they turned out.

I hope you get some rest this Turkey week and that there are no
weddings for you this holiday weekend!
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From
To Martin Torre martin@torrephotography.com
date Nov 25, 2007 11:18 PM
subject Re: Slightly

I left you a Voicemail tonight on November 25th. A response to my
emails and Voicemail is appreciated. Thank you.
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From
To Martin Torre martin@torrephotography.com
Date Dec 10, 2007 7:46 PM
Subject Re: Text Message

Martin:

I received your text message yesterday. That's good news. Will I receive the retouched photos by the end of this year?

As evidenced below, this individual has deliberately and maliciously distorted and twisted the facts. The one photo that she refers to is one of a mere few that didn't obviously result from an instructional/practice shoot where extremes in lighting, contrast and posing were called into play for demonstration purposes for my student photographer.

I'm not going to waste any more of my time searching for the emails that I allegedly didn't answer. This individual distorted the majority of the facts. She knows she's wrong and I hope that fact prays upon her concience every day for the rest of her life.
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Email 1

Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 02:00:58 -0400
From: "Khxxx" View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert
To: martin@torrephotography.com
Subject: Re: Slightly
Oh, I look really Japanese in the photo. Nice! I like the before and after results.

I read the Washington Post article. It looks like Monte passed away two days before my father. My dad was really into outdoor photography as a hobby.

Did you make it to the wedding on time?
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Email 2

Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:48:49 -0400
From: "Khxxx"
To: martin@torrephotography.com
Subject: Re: Slightly
I read your text. Thanks for the update.


On 9/9/07, Martin Torre wrote:
Nationalities set aside, I'm glad that you like the photo.

There was an accident on the eastbound side of the Bay Bridge which caused a 5 mile backup. My guess is that I arrived to the bridge approach somewhere around the middle of that event b/c I experienced about a 2 mile backup. It took me about 45 minutes to get over the bridge. I made it there about 15 minutes before I was supposed to start. I would have preferred to have been there 30 minutes before because I'm compulsively early for everything.

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Email 3

Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 20:27:42 -0400
From: "Khxxx"
To: martin@torrephotography.com
Subject: Re: Slightly
Hi Martin,

How's the wedding photography world coming along? Just checking in to see how the edits to the photos are coming along. I hoped your friend Janet got some good tips out of the photoshoot.

Khxxx

On 9/10/07, Khxxx wrote:
I read your text. Thanks for the update.
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Email 4

Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:47:20 -0400
From: "Khxxx"
To: "Martin Torre"
Subject: Re: Slightly
Hi Martin,

I hope all is well. I wanted to know when I will get the edited images?

Khang

On 10/10/07, Martin Torre wrote:

I'm in Lake Tahoe until next week.

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The individual who filed the complaint left out pertainent information in an effort to make this appear to be something other than what it really was.

All services, modeling and photography were to be done pro bono. In other words, there was to be no payment or other compensation for either the "consumer" or the photographer. In point of fact, the party who filed the complaint failed to mention that there was another photographer present during the shoot who was there in a student or learning capacity. The whole purpose of the shooting session was to provide the learning photographer with some direct experience with lighting and posing. The party who filed the complaint knew that ahead of time and agreed to pose as a subject.

Furthermore, the party who filed the complaint also deliberately failed to mention that the shooting session had to be rescheduled numerous times, mostly because of the illness and eventual death of her father and following that, the need for her to spend time with her mother in Baltimore on weekends.

In addition, the party who filed the complaint also deliberately failed to metion that she had likewise volunteered for a similar modeling session approximately one year prior to the one prior. Her only compensation for that session was a copy of the USEABLE images that were captured from that session.

The party who filed the complaint also deliberately failed to mention the fact that the photographer who took the photos was experiencing significant medical problems during and greatly exacerbating following the shooting session. The condition resulted in surgery a couple of months following the shooting session.