Photographic clichés

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What photographic clichés can you think of? For starters and an example:

- Solitary tree in a barren landscape
 
Blackrock Cottage.

Flowers with water droplets added

Cobwebs ---------"--------------

Sunsets

B&G c/w confetti shower (in fact, most "standard" wedding shots)

Milky waterfalls/coast

Durdle Door
 
Abstracts of architecture, macro flowers and insects, street candids, ordinary everyday stuff made to look interesting, food items in a light tent, isolated bursts of colour from the street...

Oh b****r everything I shoot is a cliché :D

There are no clichés are there really - just our own interpretations of what might have been done before :)
 
Selective Colouring.


I however still use it- I don't care...Cliche or not surely its the results you are happy with which count...
 
Fashion shoots and band shoots on railway tracks. Not only awfully cliched, but stupidly dangerous and irresponsible to boot.
 
I do not feel that a photograph often has a separate existence to the image it captures.

You would not say two bearded men were clichés. But you might say that their images were.

A cliché is more to to with the experience of the observer than the subject of the photograph is.

If the subject matter, however hackneyed, has not been seen by the observer before, they will not describe it as a cliché
 
when you say glamour people think you shoot porn.

rock in front of a river or lake.

white house at Buachaille Etive Mor

river in front of Buachaille Etive Mor



welly said:
What photographic clichés can you think of? For starters and an example:

- Solitary tree in a barren landscape
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Flash In The Pan said:
that irritating ring-heart-book-shadow wedding photo
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:lol: im guilty

studio shots-white background-subject lying down-hands under chin-feet raised but crossed :bang:

groom looking at his watch outside church or looking through the ring/s

ahhh we are all guilty:lol:
 
Girl in the grass, girl on railway line ( I'm guilty of both!!) Bands in front of grafitti, bands in urban decay etc etc.
Mart.
 
Blapto said:
There are such things as disused railways lines.
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Yes there are. But the people seeing the pictures don't necessarily know whether they're disused. And the people who think such images look cool and want to emulate them are very unlikely to appreciate how dangerous operational railways are.

(Bit of a personal hobby horse here. When you've helped clean up the front of a locomotive after an "incident on the line", it's hard to avoid it.)
 
Having the gents in a wedding party hold out their arms for the bride to lie across them all. Have done this at pretty much most of the weddings I go to :lol::lol:

Strangely, no one wanted to lift me at mine :thinking: :lol::lol::lol::lol:
 
I'm shocked nobody's mentioned the bike leaning against a wall.
 
- Dandelion seed head
- Boat on a shingle beach
- Boardwalk leading out into the sea
- Sun shining through lone tree
- Squint shots of modified cars
- Oil in water
etc...

I've done all of these, and will again (except I don't like squinty pictures)... the tree one is one of my favourites actually :D
 
In addition to all already said:
- the photos (particularly macros) has to have whole subject perfectly sharp (what happened to artistic blurring?-)
 
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