ITT we post photography clichés in order to better recognize

>>2888972
using a centered winding road as "much leading line"

modern architecture, photos presenting a subject geometrically, 'outdoor' shots that are just taken at some park, pretty much any street photography, photos of shit like beer bottles, other documentarian garbage

macro of bugs and flowers

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>>2889019
>photos of shit like beer bottles, other documentarian garbage

i second this

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>Le wacky un-level camera angle :*)

This thread and the cliche of wanting to avoid cliches as I associate it with a high school mentality and approach of worrying about impressions over nuanced detail. Cliches are excellent when pulled off well. It's the pack of an ability to pull it off or even tell when others do that makes the cliche so unapproachable to the newfags

>>2888972
Graffiti, abandoned and dilapidated buildings, shots outside a broken window, the homeless, old storefront signs against a chipped brick wall, incandescent shots of Italian food or kitchen decor on a wooden cutting board, the homeless, urban crap like subways or elevated train tracks and rooftop water towers. Of course 90s style double exposures of a dark hotel room with an old metal fan and a cigarette-smoking pixie chick wearing thickrimmed sunglasses illuminated by a neon sign.

>>2889060
You forgot the homeless.

>>2889060
>Of course 90s style double exposures of a dark hotel room with an old metal fan and a cigarette-smoking pixie chick wearing thickrimmed sunglasses illuminated by a neon sign.

Uhhh, what? I don't think I've ever seen a photo like that, let alone so many that it's a cliche.

>>2889067
Oh yeah and the homeless...oh shit I almost forgot...the homeless.

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>>2889088
Ok, its called hyperbole. I'm talking about vaporware shit like pic related that I see everywhere that's held up like high art or the epitome of film photography.

>>2889088
I must see one now. At least 3 to make it a cliché

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>this shot, in all of its incarnations

>>2889096

I don't think you know what hyperbole is, or what the 90's looked like.

>>2889096
What are you even going on about anymore.

Million people take photos, million cameras has been sold worldwide, million people take the same photo

everything nowadays are pretty cliché

>>2889119
How very postmodern of you.

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>>2888972
Birds on powerlines/powerlines generally.

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>>2889124
B..but muh Hitchcock aesthetic!

>>2889123

Yep, kind of it.

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>>2889101
My absolute fave phototrope.

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>>2889004
These are irresistible

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>>2888972
>photography clichés i
The macro shot.

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Psychedelic clouds

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Those pesky waterfall shots

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>>2889096
how is this a cliche

post or link to more than 10 pictures that look like that I dare you

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>>2889153

>>2889149
That's called a sunset you stoner piece of shit

>>2889172
Do you see a fucking horizon and a sun? Those are clouds at dusk you fucking degenerate donut.

>>2889142
>>2889101
This is beautiful and I will never get tired of seeing it as long as it is executed well.

>>2889039
forgot high ISO noise, muted color filters, and props that look ridiculously out of place, e.g. chairs in the middle of a farmer's field

>backpackers backpacking into the distance
>kayaker POV
>pier into water
any of the other faggotry that's found on 95% of IG and FB posts

>>2889171
oh wow such 90s

>>2889171
first of all, there's only three pictures which are double exposures with a woman and a neon sign (kek)

and secondly most of them are by the same photographer (double kek)

good job embarassing yourself

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>>2889221
>>2889226
>This fucking defensive.
Christ, just admit you aspire to make or are already making this cliche. Goddamn

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John Free. Has taken one half a decent picture and thinks that he is the best street photogtapher in the world.

>>2889238
just pointing out your autism

doubles exposures are a hipster cliche in general, though

ITT: no fun allowed

>>2889283
just pointing out your autism
psshhhh, well...maybe it does trigger me more than it should.

>>2889048
massively underrated post because its all underclassmen in here

>>2889048
>Cliches are excellent when pulled off well
nah, even if they're aesthetically pleasing they will come off as boring. no way around it. the only reason old master photographers get away with it is because when you look at it from a historical perspective, the cliches weren't as popular back then, and in many cases the artists CREATED the cliche

>>2889311
Nah, this is what young creatives think before they get past their 100th creation

Source: I here ask you to link me to your portfolio and watch as you either fail to do so, or present a paltry lack of content indicative of the very mindset I previously discussed.

If you can't master a cliche, you can't master originality. Prove me wrong.

>>2889288
>using shitty techniques done by everyone and their mother the day they get their first DSLR
>if you don't like it u just hate fun ;_;
keep taking snapshits, sugar

>>2889319
>If you can't master a cliche, you can't master originality.

what did he mean by this?

So, basically every type of photograph is cliche.

>>2889335
To be innovative, is to fully understand and master tradition. Then you can use what you have learned to create new ideas; otherwise its not really innovation.

>>2889288
This.

a chiche is fine if the photograph looks good. I wouldn't get to worked by the lump of negative nancys that lurk here

>>2889384
innovation is expanding on or making something better
originality is creating something new

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Have this: https://www.flickr.com/groups/1161775@N22/discuss/72157619300452042/

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>>2889410
"originality" is usually part ignorance of those who already did it before you.

Pursuit of novelty is a cliche by now, right?

>>2889319
>I here ask you to link me to your portfolio and watch as you either fail to do so, or present a paltry lack of content indicative of the very mindset I previously discussed
>Prove me wrong

haha holy shit. this is some RationalWiki fedora-tier argument right here

>>2889101
But thats a very nice one

>>2889423
But it seems to have been accurate :^)

The street photography meme.

>>2889454
Whats wrong with street photography?

>>2889480
Because every Tom, Dick and Harry can take pictures on the street, ad vsco, and call it street photography. Look at Eric Kim, without his filters it would be snapshit central.

>>2889454

I used to do street photography but stopped a year or so back because of how pointless it began to feel. Whenever I tried to justify it to myself, I'd always end up at "but I'm exploring what it means to be human..." and that's when I realize the genre's been gutted. I guess it was on me to not find a direction to go with it, but it made me sick to see so many of my "peers" posting soulless photos of homeless people, people's backs, people looking surprised at the camera, people on bicycles, etc. just go on Flickr, and you'll understand why I rage-quit.

Albeit landscape photography has even more annoying cunts, basing my intent and style on what The New Topographics was about has given me a fresh, new direction.

>>2889038
>being so hillbilly, fuck-backwards to use Bleeding Cowboys as your watermark
>mfw this represents the US as a whole
This is the reason the US is still a shithole. You expanded too fast, and except for your coastal cities, you're basically living in the 90s with your checks, minimum wage and tipping/gratuities

>>2889480
He said it's a cliche. And it is. Nothing wrong with it above that.

>>2889495
>got tired of street
>moved onto new topo for originality
maybe consider programming or math instead

>>2889039
NEVER. EVER. use a Dutch tilt outside of film for mise en scene reasons. I have an Indian friend who does this all the time and wonders why noone likes his photos

>>2889516
Yeah, but these snide opinions that you keep to yourself to be thrown out anonymously online to vent your frustrations are in no way, shape, or form related to the social alienation and competition that you feel from those you define as your friends.

>>2889495
I'm currently trying to pursue documentary photography and cinematography. Street photography has really helped me pretty much banish my social anxiety with strangers and fear of sketchy places.

I definitely agree that most street photography I see is cancer. But like most of these tropes and cliches its interesting to find your voice and see what you can bring to the table.

>>2889520
Dutch angle is shit, anyone educated on the subject of photography/composition will laugh in your face for defending it. Prove me wrong.

>>2889520
Wow, thats pretty dark from someone anonymous. I may browse 4chan, but I'm anything but a /b/tard. I called him a friend the same way you call that coworker you almost never speak to is a friend. We talk sometimes, but he is so negative and unwilling to change its hard to hang out with him. Indian culture as a whole seems to grate against me, the way you can barely know each other and they feel like its okay to ask big favors

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>tfw the worst faggot meme/cliche of them all has not yet been posted

>>2889530
>I called him a friend the same way you call that coworker you almost never speak to is a friend.
I don't do that. That's so weird that you do that. Is it because you don't have any real friends to use the word on?

Creepy, bruv.

>Indian culture as a whole seems to grate against me, the way you can barely know each other and they feel like its okay to ask big favors
Found why you lack friends lol

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>>2889119
Yup it's just like porn. In the beginning eyeing some lingerie ad was enough to make you cum in your pants. After years of leveling up you now need leather clad dwarf amputees fisting each other just to get hard.

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>>2889536
if only it were like that
for most people on here its more a coopted sense of what they think being an artist is (being unique)
"I dont like cliche photography" is emphatically the quote of a person who looks at photographs not individually, but as a merit badge to their lacking personality.

It's no coincidence this thread seems to be written by mostly highschool age folks. You grow out of these ideas and idealistic notions...or find another passion or job after realizing photography isn't a merit badge that will solve your autism.

>>2889226
Lol this sounds like an autist semantic hissy fit

Isn't practically everything a cliche in photography at this point?

>>2889534
fucking this.

>>2889526
https://www.google.se/search?q=rodchenko+photography&client=firefox-b&tbm=isch&oq=rodchenko+photography&gs_l=mobile-heirloom-serp.12...0.0.1.867.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c..34.mobile-heirloom-serp..0.1.338.hG4EoU12yBI

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Why the fuck hasn't anyone posted these shit house Instagram trends? They're all the same, and cliche and uninspiring as fuck. Dump in coming
>cliche photo of iPhone in hand with large aperture

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>>2889660
>POV of feet hanging over large drop

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>>2889662
>MUH SMOKE GRENADES

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>>2889662
More feet

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>>2889660
These were all found by a quick lurk in the "explore" section of Instagram. Most uninspired horse shit I've ever seen
>muh VSCO
Theyre literally the swagfags of 2016 with expensive DSLR's and a large folder of Lightroom presets they stole from the Internet.

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>>2889669
Oh and don't forget the classic throw your expensive DLSR in the air with a large apeture shot!

I could literally go on for hours, this cancer is fucking everywhere.

>>2889660
>>2889670
>pokemon go edition
First time seeing these two trends, holy shit this is some next level faggotry

>>2889669
hey, that's my photo

>>2889673
kill yourself

>>2889664
That smoke grenade could be pretty cool if used in a creative way. That person ruined a good opportunity.

>>2889670
>the classic throw your expensive DLSR in the air with a large apeture shot
I don#t think I have ever seen someone do this before.

>>2889685
Seriously? This shit is all over instagram

>>2888972
Pictures of naked or near naked women pretending to be art instead of fap-fodder

>>2889662
shots looking down spiral or winding stairs

>>2889514
new topo helped give deadpan a critical edge which is something underutilised in photos today so it's not entirely bankrupt. too many people want to passively preserve rather than actively expose, no one is angry at photography itself

>>2889538
>retarded superiority-complex opinions general

>a bench under a tree

>>2889688
>This shit is all over instagram
Explains why I don't see it then. Everything I've seen on Instagram either is about flaunting personal wealth or hopping on bandwagons.

>>2889454
>>2889495
>>2889521
>>2889538
>>2889536
People are frustrated because they feel that everything new and different has already been done to death in photography, and we all strive to create something of our own. There's a sense of frustration about that and it's very evident everywhere on this board.

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roast me /p/

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>>2889809
Is this a still from an 80s UFO sighting?

>>2889811
it was a practice shot from when I first started to try astrophotography, but I thought it was kinda comfy

>>2889812
It is, the ufo comparison was meant to be positive

>>2889813
oh, thank you

>>2889689
THIS.
Boring photos of usually underfed 6's with a sneaky titty, probably low-key and/or greyscale too. Fuck.

>>2889802
You grow out of it.
It's not hard to create original referential artwork, to reapproach the already beaten path. You just have to get over yourself and learn some individual photographs rather than a list of cliches that make you feel "above it"

Why not find a project in your area long abandoned, and make your own followup to it from your own point in time and visual perspective?

>>2889495
i stopped shooting street because i realised i was an utter pleb and i find it very hard to find interesting scenes.

>>2889536
I still rather lingerie... I have a urge to laugh when I watch midget porn...

>>2889809
Not sure if the top half is noise or stars

>EXIF
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Noise

>>2889048
Indeed, I think that many people take cliche pictures because they recognize the general aesthetic principles that make a picture interesting. The fact that these principles are recognizable by an amateur are what make them cliches in the first place. However, if a picture is taken in a way that is original and interesting then it doesn't matter if it is cliche or not.

>>2889147
only shitty ones like the one you posted, where barely anything is recognizable or in focus

>>2889809
It seems you've already roasted yourself, anon

>>2890105
I'll take it

>>2888972
>clichés

Cliché is deprecated. the word is 'meme' now. Get with the times.

>>2890329
>meme
meme is just another tedious cliché

>>2890329
>>2890341

Hating memes is a meme now

Considering the list of stuff you shouldnt be photographing is so big that almost encompasses all photography...wouldn't be faster to just list what /p/ believes you are actually allowed to photograph?

>>2890371
The only other things available is snapshits

>>2890371
Peoples backs (but only in black and white)
lamp posts
cats

>>2890377
>snapshits
what the fuck does this meme even mean?

>>2889495
>basing my intent and style on what The New Topographics was about has given me a fresh, new direction

So you're just now becoming a freshman at art school?

how old are you?

>>2889495
Street Photography is basically Pokemon Go with better gear.

That is not a bad thing.

>>2889341
I mean, yeah. You're not allowed to like anything on /p/.

>>2890473
pokemon with subjects nobody cares about. unlike pokemon

>>2890517
I don't care about Pokemon Go either

>>2889172
Sunrise more likely

>>2889341
Welcome to Postmodernism.

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>>2889516
French Fred would like to have a word with you.

>>2889495
I feel you. I've started combining the scene seeking and precise composition of landscape photography with the moment seeking of street photography. So far it's been a breath of fresh air for me.

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