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How come no-one has so far mentioned a colourful, interesting door or window in a plain wall? You know, a brightly lit beige or white wall with a blue, red or green door or a window with wooden shutters or an iron grid.

Throw in a shadow and you've got the jackpot.

Cheers,

-Topi Kuusinen, Finland
 
Maybe the next big photo fad will be an all color photo with something black and white in it!

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J. Daniels
Colorful Colorado
Panasonic FZ10, FZ50 & Fuji S602Z owner & operator



Remember . . . always keep the box and everything that came in it!
 
I love "So You Think You Can Dance" on TV. As the seasons go on, more and more of the dancers can do what last season's dancers could do. They copy each other. I watched Survivor when it first came out, and ever since then, it became a matter of who you made alliances with, rather than surviving the environment.

When I look at my high school students' photos, they sometimes have that cliche, too. But every now and then, they have a great, fresh angle or compositional eye. We got to go to japan this year, and shot the same things, but I was surprised at HOW several of them shot things. They are becoming monsters with CS2 and Fireworks, too!
 
Topi said:
Throw in a shadow and you've got the jackpot.
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Don't they call that "The money shot!"?

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J. Daniels
Colorful Colorado
Panasonic FZ10, FZ50 & Fuji S602Z owner & operator
Remember . . . always keep the box and everything that came in it!
 
Damn Jules, it's so obvious that wasn't taken by an M8, it doesn't have that super Leica magic thingy that spending £5000 gives you, oh, I think it's called a hole in your bank balance ;-)

Steve
 
it isn't quite so simple as 'africa's problems aren't our fault'. any halfway rigorous look at history shows ample culpability to pass around.

and not all of africa all the time is hell. nothing is so cliched as the notion of 'african misery' itself.

and actually yes, money pretty much makes all the differnece in the world.

i guess we need more photos until some of this sinks in.

(unfortunately, the effect of most of even the most well-meaning photos from africa is often merely to reinforce that cliche about misery... it isn't that i don't take your point about so many of the photos that get published out of africa, it's just that i think your conclusions are just as misguided as the worst of the photos.)
 
Steve, I'd dropped the M8 in the river and my friends are trying to get it out!
Jules
Steve Russell said:
Damn Jules, it's so obvious that wasn't taken by an M8, it doesn't
have that super Leica magic thingy that spending £5000 gives you,
oh, I think it's called a hole in your bank balance ;-)

Steve
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Black moles do not destroy information.
 
I've never had an original thought in my life! You guys are really depressing me!

I'd shoot myself, but it has probably been done to death!
(pun accidental)
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Now that you've judged the quality of my typing, take a look at my photos. . .
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I love vintage airplanes. However there are only a limited number flying, and the good planes appear week after week around the country (USA). Audiences are restrained a respectful distance from the flight line for safety reasons. So you have the same shots – three-quarter front, side, three-quarter rear – parked, taxiing, take off, flypast, landing. Fun to take, but always the same-old same-old. I enjoy looking at European airshow pictures. The photos are no better or worse, but the subjects are less familiar.

Exciting airplane photos almost always seem to be shot from a chase plane (aerial), showing the subjects with a spectacular landscape background, performing aerobatically or in simulated dogfights as they were designed to do. This could be considered a cliché, except that not many people are able to shoot this way.
 
Smearing... how often do we see people post photos just to complain about their new Panny or Sony smearing detail at high ISOs?

And what about damn test targets?

Or some bokeh test

"This photograph is merely intended to judge the photographic qualities, it's not intended as a piece of art"

Well being a piece of art is a photographic quality in my book.

But probably the biggest cliché is FLOWERS!

" - first pics"

Just got my new today! Colours are great and high ISO seems ok. Here are some photos I took today

(insert 5-10 flower shots)
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I hope you got my point,
Redandwhite from Malta.
Photos at --> http://redandwhite.deviantart.com
 
Redandwhite said:
But probably the biggest cliché is FLOWERS!

" - first pics"
Just got my new today! Colours are great and high ISO seems ok.
Here are some photos I took today

(insert 5-10 flower shots)
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I hope you got my point,
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I like my flowers. Do they look cliche? Please C&C. Thanks! I like the bokeh on the first one. F50/1.7 @ F2



A28/2.8 @ F4



F50/1.7 @ F4

 
xtoph said:
xtoph said:
and not all of africa all the time is hell. nothing is so cliched
as the notion of 'african misery' itself.
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True but we would probably add Safari Pictures to the list of cliches
xtoph said:
xtoph said:
and actually yes, money pretty much makes all the differnece in the
world.
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I'd believe that but for the missing billions already poured down the drains there.
xtoph said:
xtoph said:
i guess we need more photos until some of this sinks in.
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what? twenty or thirty years of misery images hasn't made any thing better.
xtoph said:
(unfortunately, the effect of most of even the most well-meaning
photos from africa is often merely to reinforce that cliche about
misery... it isn't that i don't take your point about so many of
the photos that get published out of africa, it's just that i think
your conclusions are just as misguided as the worst of the photos.)
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Perhaps. But I'm basing that opinion on the choices of award committees and magazine editors who cant seem to find any other story this year. Unless you want Palestinian Misery or Lebanese Misery or Iraqi Misery or...

There was one selection from the U.S.; Appalachian Misery! A Misery that gets a new lease on Photographic Life every ten years or so.(probably the half-life of a photo editor's tenure) Again, never cured in spite of the pipeline of money being poured into the area by various government agencies.
Awareness might raise money, but money wont cure the problems.

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Member of The Pet Rock Owners and Breeders Association
Boarding and Training at Reasonable Rates
Photons by the bag.
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if I mock you, it may be well deserved.
 


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I think there is something to be learned from this information.
I'm just not sure exactly what yet...
 
Most cliched ? Well this side of the pond it was once described as "farmyard through wagon wheel".
Thinking outside the box ? ..... well I've never seen divorce photography.
Regards, Rod.
 
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