Over photographed places!

viewfromthenorth said:
Any 5 second exposure seascape at sunset, taken using a sigma 10-20 so there's rocks and stuff in the foreground. If you're not sure what I'm on about pick up any photography mag in a shop and there'll be an example of this, guaranteed.
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Don't forget the Big Stopper.....
 
as a newbie to the world of photography i can see myself doing all the same shots of popular places as everyone else. I have some ideas that i want to try myself, but i'm sure if i look hard enough i could probably already find the same shots somewhere.
But i will be trying to replicate some of the shots i've seen before. This is how i learn, i am not sure regarding all the settings yet and am just learning as i go along.
 
i have found it a massive help. I tend to take a pic on full auto of something i have seen similar images of, and then switch to manual and try to play with settings until i can get close to the afore mentioned image.
This means i end up with most of my shots looking like thousands that have already been taken. But i don't feel i could of learned as much without using this method, as i would have no idea how good that style of image should be(if that makes any sense lol).
 
I live near to Stratford up on Avon, I'm there regularly. All year round it's packed with Americans and Japanese tourists talking pictures.

The take pictures of the famous land marks around the town. It's on my doorstep so I ignore it. This is a mistake. If people can travel from all over the world to photograph this place it is criminal for me not to.

Off out to put this right.
 
Musicman said:
Less than a mile away, I wonder if the underpass on Jamaica Road has ever had a photograph taken of it by someone other than me. :)


Give us this day by cybertect, on Flickr
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Wonder no more... yes, and that's Shutterman in the shot. :D

underpasscurve2.jpg
 
There’s an old sign post at Whinstone Lee Tor looking back over Ladybower, anyone who cycles in the Peaks has a picture of their bike lent against the post with Ladybower as the backdrop, to be fair it is a great view though. I can only imaging the £££££ worth of bikes that have lent against it over the years. It’s referred to as “that post” there’s even a Flickr group devoted to it!

http://www.flickr.com/groups/thatpost/
 
After uploading one of my London night shots to 500px yesterday I went onto flow and there was a photo taken from nearly exactly the same spot as the photo I'd just uploaded.
The only difference was that his was taken during the day and mine was taken at night.

This therefore must be an overphotographed spot!

Mine:
http://500px.com/photo/7008313
Other guys:
http://500px.com/photo/7003547
 
There are some locations that are just so brilliant that they demand to be photographed again and again, by different people , in different conditions, etc, etc. A good Welsh example of this would be Snowdon from Llyn Mymbyr , Capel Curig. (In Scotland there's that big mountain with the long name and a stream in the foreground. Funnily enough it always seems to be icy there. But then it is Scotland) ) What do these locations have in common? They're right next to a main road..

What bugs me is that the photography mags publish these locations over and over again, when sometimes the photos don't really deserve it.
 
How about Eilean Donan Castle?
Made famous in Highlander, James Bond The World Is Not Enough and the "classic" Loch Ness starting Ted Danson. :)

It is stunning, but anytime they want a stock image of a Scottish Castle this is the one.
 
The one that springs to my mind is the Millennium Bridge in London, standing with your back to the Tate Modern so you have the two walkways coming either side and St Pauls Catheral showing over the curve of the Bridge.

Yes I have done it and waited in a queue while others took their image.:shrug:
 
I honestly can not say that I look at any photograph and think " Oh god, not that again."
 
Although there is obviously heavy use of certain locations, it's generally the approach to photographing that particular location that leaves me thinking that it's getting samey.

There may be a million different spots to photograph waves crashing over rocks but when they're shot at sunset with an UWA and a 10-stop ND filter from low down, they all start to look too similar and to me, the effect is diluted. It's just another milky-water sunset shot. But, as demonstrated by those shots that are entered into the POTY, people dig this kind of shot on a constant basis, marking them highly. It's obviously just me.....

It's the same with the mach loop; the same planes travel through the same landscape, something the photographer has no control over, but for me that would be the incentive to try to get a shot that's vastly different to the rest. Most people seem to go for the close crop to try and see what food particles the pilot has in his teeth, but then it ends up looking like a plane-spotter's photograph instead of just a photograph of a plane in an environment. There have been some on here that have took truly beautiful images of the planes, but they are few and far between and do get lost in the deluge of 'so-what' images.

I could go on but I fear I'll come across as an uber-curmudgeon :lol:
 
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viewfromthenorth said:
Any 5 second exposure seascape at sunset, taken using a sigma 10-20 so there's rocks and stuff in the foreground. If you're not sure what I'm on about pick up any photography mag in a shop and there'll be an example of this, guaranteed.
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:thumbs: :lol:
 
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