Cliché Photos or Typical Pics

Johnboy2978 · Dec 14, 2004

How about a post of those pics that everyone probably has that have really become a photographer's cliche pics. I'll start with a shot of the Vietnam Memorial which I think makes a beautiful picture, but it's a shot that everyone probably has done. I invisioned maybe a shot of a reflection of a uniformed military personnel saluting the memorial...perhaps another day.

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LittleMan · Dec 14, 2004

Edited due to broken link

Johnboy2978 · Dec 15, 2004

guess no one wants to play this one. Shucks

tmpadmin · Dec 15, 2004

Nobody wants to admit they take cliche photos I guess. I personally don't have any, blub blub blub...

walter23 · Dec 15, 2004

Okay, I'll bite:

Unfortunately I sold the above (using this photo in the ad). DIdn't want to maintain it anymore.

Unimaxium · Dec 15, 2004

I've got one of the vietnam memorial, too, although it's not as good. It was taken at night. Here it is:

And another cliche photo of a really famous site nearby

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JonMikal · Dec 15, 2004

ah, the Lincoln Memorial - my favorite place to sit and have lunch - enjoy watching the visitors!

Nytmair · Dec 16, 2004

Unimaxium said:

that looks somewhat familiar (even though I took my picture at a 2/3's replical that was traveling the country....

magali · Dec 16, 2004

LittleMan said:
Taken a billion times..... still love it!

you made a very good choice ! it's an international cliché ;-)

here it's mine, a frenchy one :

Nytmair · Dec 18, 2004

LittleMan said:
Taken a billion times..... still love it!

You are so right, no matter how many times I try to get a shot of the moon... even though it's only been twice so far... I still love the results

simnine · Dec 19, 2004

where are all of the graveyard photos?

cactus waltz · Dec 20, 2004

Johnboy2978 said:
I'll start with a shot of the Vietnam Memorial which I think makes a beautiful picture, but it's a shot that everyone probably has done.

Hah. Never even heard of it before.

I got a couple of good cliché pictures in mind, though. I try to avoid taking them myself, so I can't show them off.

1. parents/family/friends etc. in front of well known tourist attraction, like your grand parents standing in front of the eiffel tower, or you standing in front of the great wall of china.

2. erotic black/white pictures of the female body, especially if the picture has a pretentious name like "ode to humanity". bleah. spare me, please.

3. the party shot. dear god, the party shot. you know what I mean, a picture with strong flash of two friends partying, all you see are their drunk faces while the background is completely black.