Apparently (as taken from another site) the photographer is one of the instructors at the class being conducted there. Still this is a whole case of dumb ass in a box! What's more, why didn't any of the students step back and go "uh, dumb ass, WTF!!"

Don't care who they are, that's not a line I would be on. Most likely would have up and left the class at that point and insisted on getting my money back.