Clichéd Images

[Mr Guy]

I was thinking ready made photo scavenger hunt list!

[BryanC]

Originally Posted by Mr Guy

HDR Sunset?

Seriously, just because an IDEA has become hackneyed doesn't mean it's a bad idea. I used to have a poster on my wall growing up that had corollaries to Murphy's Law. One of them was, "The race isn't always to the swift, or the fight to the strong, but that's the way to bet." Likewise, most of these ideas that have been listed are listed because they ARE images people like, and they are challenging to recreate, but even more challenging to recreate WELL.

Putting together something that has been done before and STILL IMPRESSING PEOPLE is the real challenge.

That said, I can't believe hot chicks on a car and birds on a telephone wire haven't been mentioned yet.

I agree with what you are saying. There is a reason there are so many versions of those certain categories...and the challenge of still finding a way to impress!

[irieness]

Originally Posted by Mr Guy

HDR Sunset?

Seriously, just because an IDEA has become hackneyed doesn't mean it's a bad idea. I used to have a poster on my wall growing up that had corollaries to Murphy's Law. One of them was, "The race isn't always to the swift, or the fight to the strong, but that's the way to bet." Likewise, most of these ideas that have been listed are listed because they ARE images people like, and they are challenging to recreate, but even more challenging to recreate WELL.

Putting together something that has been done before and STILL IMPRESSING PEOPLE is the real challenge.

That said, I can't believe hot chicks on a car and birds on a telephone wire haven't been mentioned yet.

I could'nt have said this better. While I do make alot of cliche images as well, I gotta admit it becomes a chore to go through all the mediocre cliche images shown on the community.

[Quo Fan]

I saw this and thought it was going to be images of cliches. Like a photo of curtains for the cliche of "It's curtains".

[Nicole]

Originally Posted by Quo Fan

I saw this and thought it was going to be images of cliches. Like a photo of curtains for the cliche of "It's curtains".

We had a game thread kinda like that long, long ago... Aha! Found it! Well, it was the Metaphor Challenge, but your "It's curtains" thing just made me remember it

[Jody]

One that comes to mind is the woman making a heart with her fingers over her pregnant belly. Or come to think of it, almost all pg belly photos - the younger child's hand on the belly or hugging the belly or the pg woman silhouette ....

[wulf]

Originally Posted by amberskies

what is bokeh?

Attractive patterns formed by the out of focus areas of a picture - for example, when lights turn into soft disks:



Wulf

[TDrag27]

You could have just linked to my Flickr! LoL.

I like some of my cliches. It's always different when it's the sunset that you froze your ass off to capture or the cat that has been sitting on your lap for 8 years.

One day I'll graduate to original work.

[mfreg]

Politician from New York doing drugs with an underage prostitute

lol.

Or if your from Illinois, a picture of of politician taking an envelope of cash for ( fill in the blank)

The thing is, cliches become cliches for a reason..in the spoken word they make sense, so they survive, and in photography they're just plain cool ....I plan on trying them all and I don't care what you guys think...

[dagza]

How about a photo of the socks on your feet? Even better if they are brightly coloured stripey socks. Even better than that if they are resting on something like a dashboard.