Photographic clichés

dalex_257 said:
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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I'll tell you what happens with artistic blurring :rules: People fill the thread with well meaning comments about it being out of focus including Mrs Cowasaki then I look like a prat when I say that I meant it to be like that :bonk: (even though I actually did mean it to be like that)..... Woops getting a bit specific here.
 
cowasaki said:
I'll tell you what happens with artistic blurring :rules: People fill the thread with well meaning comments about it being out of focus including Mrs Cowasaki then I look like a prat when I say that I meant it to be like that :bonk: (even though I actually did mean it to be like that)..... Woops getting a bit specific here.
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Does it actually matter to you if it was your vision? I know it certainly does not to me, but it is an established cliche which is why I added it here...
 
Just about every shot you can possibly take is cliched - in someone's view. Does it really matter if it is cliched, as long as you and some of the viewers like it?
 
Spot/selective colouring - this is truly the work of Satan. Anyone doing this should be sentenced to life in prision.

Photographs of models with wooden/gormless expressions and in awkward unrealistic poses. They are normally standing (trying to look sexy - but failing miserably) on a dirty white Colorama background next to a motorbike.

Portraits of same model (see above) that have been blitzed in Portrait Professional - i.e her skin looks like its made of wax.

Waterfalls taken with a long exposure.
 
Street portraits and models with skin so smooth they may just have well come out of the Beano. Oh and track cars with absolutely no action, just a car on it's own with a blurred background. :p Sorry guys ;)
 
Pregnant belly with the hands / fingers making a heart shape around the belly button! I see this so often and it drives me bonkers LOL
 
high rez portrait of an unshaved man smoking cigarette - haven`t yet tried myself but like the the effect it gives.
 
glass with an object dropped into it, shot with water frozen in the air - so often in portfolios (not a beginers choice though)
 
MySpace posed self portraits. In fact, when it comes to anything to do with photography, those actually make me want to burn cars.
 
Metal God said:
Spot/selective colouring - this is truly the work of Satan. Anyone doing this should be sentenced to life in prision.

Photographs of models with wooden/gormless expressions and in awkward unrealistic poses. They are normally standing (trying to look sexy - but failing miserably) on a dirty white Colorama background next to a motorbike.

Portraits of same model (see above) that have been blitzed in Portrait Professional - i.e her skin looks like its made of wax.

Waterfalls taken with a long exposure.
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were about to start doing bike shoots.
you may have inspired me. ahahaha
 
Trev Rich said:
Japenese people throwing 2 victory signs at the camera with cheesy grins..
Cracks me up every time....
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I was wandering around a fairly touristy Chinese village (by their standards) with a Chinese girl. We spotted a group of teenagers posing with their hands doing the victory V sign and she commented on it. I said they're Japanese, and they all do it. She wouldn't believe me, had never seen this before, and said they could be Chinese, Korean, Taiwan, whatever. Anyway, not wanting to let it go, she approached them and struck up a conversation. A minute later she came back and confirmed that I was right.

Cliched stuff in photo magazines. Flat milky coastal sea with rocks in the foreground. Then there's Bamburgh Castle in the background, beach in foreground, sunrise. I always used to want to go there and take that shot. Now I'll probably just drive straight past.
 
fireworks, london eye, bigben, your cat/dog, kids with chocalate faces, the list is endless
 
HDR... hate it hate it hate it......
 
salute-pose-seo-you-jin-01.jpg
 
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