Want the ultimate in fine art prints from the “preeminent” photographers of our time? Why, they’re just $99 at Commercial Fine Art!

The Commercial Fine Art LIARS and their $99 prints


 More LIES and BULLSHIT from the SCAM site Commercial Fine Art. Now you can buy your very own, highest quality “Fine Art Prints” (imagine an arrogant delivery of that line by liar Marc Adamus on a TV infomercial) for the low, low price of $99! Sound like a late-night TV special? Only because it probably should be!

Commercial Fine Art; it's all just fake.

 
 In only the latest hysterical “breakthrough” from the idiots/liars at Commercial Fine Art, they’ve now evidently decided to adopt Wal-Mart pricing for what has been described as the finest possible prints, from the “pre-eminent” landscape artists in the world. (Don’t you just love a bunch of turkeys who write gibberish they probably can’t even understand?)

 We sort of understand where these idiots are coming from. They made the typical mistake that all other “let’s get together and call ourselves the best photographers in the world!” morons did (Photo-cascadia, Mountain Trail Photo, and Timecatcher, to name just a few). They thought that after a couple weeks of explosive bullshit, and maybe some lie-filled, cue-the-choirs Youtube videos, everyone would be breaking down the (virtual) doors and begging to buy some workshops or “fine art” prints. Needless to say, this didn’t happen. So now they’ve decided to slash those prices and offer a “special” on their ultimate fine art prints. Cause you know, that’s what Rembrandt did when no one wanted his paintings, or Art Wolfe when it was a slow day at the gallery. He said, “Oh, I’ll just sell them for five shillings each and make it up on volume!”.

 Perhaps we’re being too harsh and judgmental? Maybe Commercial Fine Art is just selling a screenshot of a fine art print for $99? They are quite proud of their “virtual” showroom, after all. Pioneered by fraud Mark Metternich and now given extra credibility by Commercial Fine Art, the virtual showroom is touted as a plus instead of a minus. 

 Because who would ever want to see a real print, when you can just view virtual prints on a crummy computer monitor? Remember that Marc Adamus made a stink about “getting together with LCD manufacturers to display his images on LCD panels” (as if paper prints aren’t good enough for Marc). Of course, we never heard a peep about that since. Maybe this is the logical culmination of that long-desired dream. Marc Adamus LIES 1.0 saw Marc’s prints in person, and they weren’t impressed.

Marc Adamus and Commercial Fine Art: another hype and LIE filled site you should steer clear of.

Marc Adamus & Commercial Fine Art: just more LIES

Nothing but bullshit: Marc Adamus & Commercial Fine Art

Commercial Fine Art is the latest attempt by scam artist Marc Adamus to cement his dominance in the photography world. Like Lord Sauron in Lord of the Rings, Marc Adamus wills to dominate all photography. 

And he’s not satisifed with a comfortable career that helps him support a wife and kids. That was never Marc’s intention. Marc desperately desires to be famous and well-known. He’s wanted it for years. People who knew him in high school knows that he was always a fame-lusting shit. 

In many ways, Commercial Fine Art is a culmination of Marc’s efforts to dominate photography. It is a project designed to cast Marc Adamus in a respectable light. However, it fails in many ways:

1. It fails to inspire confidence in prospective clients
With the same “me-too” bullshit as so many other sites, the bogus “virtual galleries” that are instantly recognizable as the work of scam artists, and the trumpeting, egotistical delivery, it comes across as an entirely boastful, prideful, and deceitful website. To say nothing of the names that are featured on there.

2. The blog is an utter failure
The Commercial Fine Art blog is an utter failure. Random people will not be attracted to Marc Adamus’ pathetic rationizations for how Photoshop is part of today’s workflow, and no one will be impressed by the fact that the members are simply commenting on each other posts constantly. Blogs are supposed to feature quality material that is exciting to read, not a bunch of re-hashed, self-serving bullshit.

3. Too many members
Apart from the usual, hoary lies we’ve all heard before, like “some of the best photographers in the world”, and so forth, there are too many members on Commercial Fine Art. It’s impossible to keep the operation pointed in a single, focused direction when Marc and whoever else administers it picks up turkeys from all around the world. 

4. The proven Marc Adamus kiss of death
Marc Adamus is a proven killer for any website or blog. Period. Every site he has joined has eventually experienced losses in readership and a long-term trend toward failure. The inclusion of Marc Adamus indicates a preference for bullshit and lying over honesty and real material. Just ask Mountain Trail Photo. They actually ended up closing their blog down entirely after Marc’s egotistical, lie & bullshit filled post that attracted negative reactions from all over the Internet.

5. No actual functionality on the site.
In the end, Commercial Fine Art is no more than one more self-aggrandizing blog. There is no real functionality here. Want to actually buy a print? You’ll still have to go thru the old song & dance of contacting whichever scam artist you want to buy it from. Worse yet, Commercial Fine Art lied and said that they didn’t include any functionality because they “custom prepare” all orders. Yeah, right.

These are just a sample of the many problems with Commercial Fine Art. None should be a surprise. A LIE can only be so big and complicated before it starts to fall apart from its own weight. No amount of window dressing, fancy graphics, or bullshit will sustain lies and dubious statements forever. The public eventually sees right through it. Your best bet is to purchase fine art from a REAL photographer who can give you the service and selection you deserve, without the self-serving bullshit and distasteful, insulting LIES you’ll get from most of the Commercial Fine Art membership. Our verdict: this is a SCAM; pass on this.

Marc Adamus and Commercial Fine Art: only the latest scam in an attempt to expand his slimy tentacles all over photography

Marc Adamus and Commercial Fine Art



We have been aware of Commercial Fine Art for some time now. Our initial instinct was that it was one big fraud, and our opinion hasn’t changed. In fact, it has merely been confirmed over and over as this monstrosity spreads its venom around and recruits more THUGS, LOSERS, FRAUDS, and the like. 

 Needless to say, anything involving Marc Adamus comes out smelling like shit by default. But this particular fraud has a couple different tricks up its sleeves. Of particular note is the so-called “Virtual Gallery”. We like to translate this to “we really have no prints or photos of any prints, so we’ll post JPEGs in fake galleries and pretend it’s all real”. Nice. The usual Mark Metternich type bullshit. It seems to be spreading like a virus…all THUGS and MORONS are now noticing that you can just pretend to have prints hanging on walls, instead of going to all the trouble of actually making prints and photographing them. This is fraud and false advertising, of course, but don’t that stop anyone; just insist it’s a “virtual” gallery if asked, and wink and nod at everyone else. 

 Notice that they have no store or checkout system (but Commercial Fine Art is making up lies about having to custom-prepare each order, yeah right), pathetic Paypal for payments (who the heck uses Paypal for real, high volume standalone e-commerce?). Half of the links don’t even work. The “artist” profiles page doesn’t even display properly.We’re wondering if the LLC is really registered or they just went the Mark Metternich route and just made it all up. Of course, there’s yet another blog filled with vain pretense and bullshit (“drawn” to this scene, compelled to photograph this “secluded” area, and the like). 

 The very fact that LOSERS like Roman Johnston have been recruited screams that this is all a scam. Roman Johnston is an IT worker in Portland. He is NOT a fine art photographer. There are more examples of this on Commercial Fine Art. We'll be talking about Commercial Fine Art for a long time. Stay tuned for more about this fraud-filled venture (Well, anything connected to Marc is F-R-A-U-D.