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Media Files==== 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 etc... 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