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Oh well!! Here I am just getting back into photography and I read this forum. Seems like every thing I could photograph has already been done so why bother.
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Besides couldn't the same thing be said for painted pictures, making the Mona Lisa just another cliched portrait.
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Besides couldn't the same thing be said for painted pictures, making the Mona Lisa just another cliched portrait.
Well the Mona Lisa is unique for a number of reasons!

But speaking of Renaissance art, *most* of it was the same images and themes over and over again, largely for religious purposes. In one day at the Uffizi I saw a lifetime's worth of Madonna and child. Originality is a more modern idea; the great artists of the Renaissance weren't about originality, but about formula and set elements. The difference between the great and the mediocre was *how* they did it, not what they did. I'm guessing that the same could be said for today's cliche images.
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Give the masses digital cameras and everything becomes cliched - there's only so many things to take pictures of!
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I was told by an instructor "we don't need anymore bicycles leaning against a wall in Europe"



Oh well, I liked it at the time...3 years ago
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Secondly, every picture ever taken of two drunk people at a party. Esp. the ones where one of the two is holding the camera and the the photographer and their friend are cheek to cheek pretending to be having the time of their lives.
And please, PLEASE, PLEASE be sure to take that picture with a camera phone, pointed at the bathroom mirror. Don't forget the "scissor hands." [Is there some law now that requires young people to pose with some sideways variant of a peace sign in every single pic?] Bonus points for serious, uncorrectable overexposure and ridiculous amounts of camera tilt.

p.s.: For best results, hold the camera over your head. Don't question it; just do it. Because everybody else does.

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