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Photographic Clichés
Real Serious Street Photography Clichés
(via https://www.flickr.com/groups/onthestreet/discuss/72157635412484510/ and https://www.flickr.com/groups/1161775@N22/discuss/72157619300452042/ and […])
- Plastic Whales
- Shots of Backs
- People Walking Past Monotonous Walls
- people walking in front of advertising
- the Too Small Subject
- Supporting Tower of Pisa
- Street Photography (according to Martin Parr (but “Parr is merely a clicheed version of his own earlier work”))
- People on mobile phones
- People juxtaposed with billboards
- People yawning
- People blinking (sleep walkers)
- People taking photographs
- People lying down in public
- Statues and art appearing to interact with their environment
- People obscured by trees
- an hdr shot of a kitten at sunset
- Faces obscured by balloons, flowers etc..
- People perfectly positioned within a small frame within the frame
- people carrying random objects (often unusual or unexpected)
- Synchronised stepping
- People mirroring each other's body postures, including people mirroring public art body postures.
- People panhandling (while other people pretend not to notice them)
- Pictures of the photographer's own shadow - amusing object/animal (e.g. pigeon) optional
- Pictures of the photographer's own reflection in shop window - Rolleiflex optional
- Person caught in mid-flight jumping over puddle
- Urchins playing war games in derelict building
- People obscured by umbrellas on rainy day
- People drinking coffee in cafes - especially Parisian
generally cliché
(via http://www.flickr.com/groups/strobist/discuss/72157614174895918/ and […] )
- The girl looking into the mirror and the reflection is her dressed differently or whatever.
- Anyone screaming, though I have one of a 7 year old doing that in my stream.
- Pretty girl with a fur lined hood wrapping her face
- Multiple clones of oneself
- gas masks
- a naked female with m+m's, rose pedals, pebbles, or any other small pieces of whatever covering her crotch
- picture of a guy being lit by his computer
- hand bra
- any guns or ninjas, unless they really look legitimately like they should be holding a gun or is a ninja, ala Chase Jarvis' pics. Airchinapilot (Keith Loh) also just posted some nice gun pics from an actors gun training class.
- smoke streams
- anything splashing into a martini glass
- view of the dashboard of a car in focus with street lights streaking by through the windshield
- photographer taking a picture of himself/herself taking a picture of himself/herself in the mirror.
- photographer taking a picture of another photographer taking a picture of the first photographer
- when the two photographers from #14 create links between the pictures they each took so we can all see them taking pictures of each other from each perspective
- Self Portraits made by pointing the camera into a mirror using one of those special left handed limited edition DSLRs made by nokiN or nonaC.
- jumping
- dripping faucet
- heart bokeh
- subject sitting on a toilet, especially if it's an attractive girl (some photographers will go to any length to get a girl to get naked)
- popping water balloon
- the stupid myspace shot, that camera held up overhead shooting down on yourself angle. Oh! And it is always from a cameraphone.
- long exposures of spinning carnival rides
- girls wearing both a bathing suit AND high heels.
- A Single Leaf on Dirt, water, grass,stairs etc.
- “Pointing out cliches.”
- Underexposed sky with a female model, no contextual information for why she's there, and soft light coming in from camera right or left with an edge light from behind.
- levitation pictures
- Rings in books uk held by girls covered in m&m's shot in macro with flowers
- strangers walking by an “interesting” wall.
- Shots of Laser Mouse
- over processed wide angle overblow rim portraits
- “I rather fear there is a flickr group for every cliche on the list…”
- the “hunched shoulders” pose in fashion photos
- Blurry long exposure waterfalls
- Shots of peoples gear collection, or how much they can fit in a daypack.
- train tracks.
- B&W single light source nudes
- Building shots with super wide angles.
- White farm fences.
- Sub-atomic particle detector technicians, and anything with the Ogalthorpe look.
- Roasted window poultry
- picture frames. people holding picture frames. or stepping through picture frames..
- Bokeh highlights of point light sources especially cheap 5 bladers or even worse hearts
- Slow shutter night traffic tail lights
- Scientists with test tubes conical bottles and over gelled backgrounds
- Anyone holding a large spanner (except Bob)
- HDR sunsets
- macros of tap water / milk / coloured water drop splashes
- Backlit flowers as seen through a drop of (tap water) mist
- Scrap rusty iron
- Super-wide-angle shots of cars from a corner of the front bumper
- hummingbirds and flower macros and hdr hot-air balloons
Instagram Clichés → http://mashable.com/2012/08/31/cliche-instagram-photos/ )
“Every photo book needs the following: a dwarf, a naked lady, a dog, an umbrella and a horse.” –Charlie Kirk
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