Your top 5 "unfashionable" techniques...

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I want some inspiration so have decided to work my way through the techniques which seem to offend budding pro-photographers so much.

Currently thinking of:

Selective Colouring (which I really like)
HDR

and that's as far as I've got tbh, so any pointers towards techniques which make you say "oh for gods sake, not again!" would be much appreciated.

If I can combine all 5 in one photo them that's even more of a result!
 
hmmm, as a newbie I am disheartened that 'fashion' is involved in photography. I do what appeals to me. A good picture is a good picture whether not it is 'classed' as old hat or twee. Who decides this stuff anyway? If the majority decide, then I'm happy to be in the minority. :)
 
Milky water and light trails.

Heart Ring shadow in a bible.
 
sturisoma said:
hmmm, as a newbie I am disheartened that 'fashion' is involved in photography. I do what appeals to me. A good picture is a good picture whether not it is 'classed' as old hat or twee. Who decides this stuff anyway? If the majority decide, then I'm happy to be in the minority. :)
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Tis the other way round, you'll see that the 'fashionable' photographs are usually cliche'd gimmicks or processing tricks. A good 'Photograph' will always be a good photograph and will never be naff or cheesy or out of date.
 
Objects removed or added in photoshop, it just bugs me.
 
Phil V said:
How do you know when they're removed?:thinking:
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I was referring to scenic shots rather than people

When you know an area, you see a photo of the area and they have removed bits to make the image more balanced or it broke the flow etc.
 
Selective colour, cartoon-HDR, soft-focus of levitating, angst-ridden, teenage girl. With an applied grunge texture. And she's holding an apple in one hand with a cat on her lap. Probably in an abandoned theatre.
 
You've forgotten the naked girl with rose petals or sweets covering her bits :-) Also girl hugging a grave stone. Or someone wearing black and calling it gothic...
 
Self portraits taken looking up at an angle into the camera. Don't forget to suck in your cheeks as though you're trying to get every last drop out of your McShake before you hit the shutter.
 
White vignettes
Pink borders
Overcooked HDR's
Halo's from overprocessing
Noise
Underexposed shots being called 'Low-key'.
Overexposed shots being called 'High-key'.
Photoshop blur being used as a vignette
Pop up flash
Flash being used in portrait leaving a gastly shadow behind
Distorted portraits using a wide angle lens
Selective colour
Blown skies
Fake photoshop reflections
Sepia
Canon and Nikon users argueing with eachother

That list isn't exhaustive!
 
I thought the OP asked about techniques and it's turned into a 'what I hate' thread! :eek:

How about time lapse?
 
Dale_d3100 said:
I was referring to scenic shots rather than people

When you know an area, you see a photo of the area and they have removed bits to make the image more balanced or it broke the flow etc.
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That's my issue with what you see as wrong. If you didn't know the location you'd take the picture at face value, so it's only wrong in your eyes if you already have knowledge of the location.

So you will judge those images differently based on a presumably narrow criteria (I'm assuming you can't possibly be familiar with a majority of the worlds locations). Id just ask you if you believe that to be a fair viewpoint?

I'll add that I'm no big fan of overprocessing but using the tools we have at our disposal to create the vision our minds eye saw is photography. Unless our minds eye is off its t1ts on coke of course. In that case and there's more photoshop than camera work it's digital imaging not photography.
 
Selective colouring
HDR (well, HDR where the tonemapping is obvious)
Textures
Hipshots (most of the time, since they go hand in hand with poorly composed street shots)
Bad black and white conversions where the resulting photo looks like a rectangle of grey or a bad photocopy of a print.
 
Quite an oppresive bunch on these forums. :nono:

So much for being open-minded.

This is not aimed at the OP, who asked for opinions about techniques, not what people hate about photography and fellow photographers.

Still, everyone's a critic. (Maybe i'll be the same in a few years).
 
1. HDR - this takes the crown


2. selective colour. simply terrible
3. direct on-camera flash. aweful
4. wideangle headshots. why?!
5. noise and severe underexposure. Just as popular as hdr these days.
 
danjama said:
Quite an oppresive bunch on these forums. :nono:

So much for being open-minded.

This is not aimed at the OP, who asked for opinions about techniques, not what people hate about photography and fellow photographers.

Still, everyone's a critic. (Maybe i'll be the same in a few years).
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Not liking something doesn't translate to being close minded.
 
Well it looks like I'll soon be off out to get a badly composed, hdr street shot followed by some time in front of photoshop converting it to sepia tones with the post-box picked out in red. I'll knock up a nice soft vignette style frame before posting.

I can almost certainly say it'll be oof as well. (sadly)

I want the title of worst photo on tp 2011!

Cheers guys, interesting to know what people consider cliched etc.
 
PDub said:
I'd love to see a thread of the worst photos you can come up with, that would be awesome.
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I created it and it's going well! It's called the selective colour thread.
 
heavy black borders
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actually ALL borders.....:D
 
My list of dislikes is pretty lengthy, I'd say the big four are:

- Street photography, particuarly when done by people who don't know why they're doing it but just feel they ought to be doing it. Tbh I can't stand most aggressive, invasive photography.

- Odd aspect ratios and weird crops (usually just indicative of bad composition at the picture taking stage)

- Pixel peeping, not technically a photographic technique but some photographers take it to the level of an art form.

- People who use film just to be different because they think its quirky and arty and alternative. Erg.

Weirdly I'm not bothered by selective colouring, HDR, excessive proccessing and all those other things, I just think they're something we all do at one point or another but eventually grow out of.
 
10 stop shots of a bit of wood sticking out of the sea.

Portraits where the eyes have been made to look un-naturally sharp, large and saturated. (Especially if it's high key verging on blown out everything else)

HDR for the sake of HDR.
 
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