What are your favourite Flickr clichés?
Browsing groups the other day I started to wonder what were my favourite/least favourite recurring themes and subjects.Here are mine, please post yours.
#3 "Street" - I've taken a picture of someone having a fag without them knowing, I've done a B&W conversion therefore it's "art".
#2 "Urban" - I've taken a picture of a bus.I've added a detailed description of exactly which bus it is.
#1 "I am a photographer" - I've taken a picture of one of my cameras with another one of my cameras and posted it to groups for both cameras.I've attracted several comments of "Nice camera!". 2 out of 3 data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 I'm not up on my bus trivia..
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My input..
Street photography of people preoccupied on their mobile phones, might be a nice way to build up confidence, but it gets old fast data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
Oh.. favourite as in 'good' or 'bad' data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 There's one user who regularly posts pictures of UK buses in a group I follow which is mainly "art" photography/phoneography and is run by a USA based camera accessory supplier. data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
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I was tempted to include "look at this plane, it's just like the last plane" (to me anyway data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 )
Nice - Phone users is a good'un data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
Favourite in either case or both - it's only supposed to be light hearted - I've taken plenty of cliched pictures and I'm sure I will again data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 #3 is a tricky one. There are a lot of very boring average shots of people in the street and as you say folk say it's art. However, there are some street photography that is extremely well taken, adds interest, or taken from a particular point of view that make it interesting. As Dan's pic show you can take "a picture of someone having a fag without them knowing" and do a "B&W conversion" and create a great picture. I think the issue is more just that people assume they can take a pic of someone/something in the street and it's automatically 'cool' etc without getting a good composition etc etc.
#2 Buses are the ultimate and if you want to be explored you must take nothing but photos of buses data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
#1 We all like to take pictures of things we love. I don't have kids so have to take pics of my cameras instead data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
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You forgot #1a, the selfie in the mirror data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
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There are a few of her's left on here - The Candid/Street Thread Photos of selfies.Personally I quite like the photos of people and groups taking selfies.Even better when you can see their screen clearly. Astro.And I'm sometimes guilty of this one....look at all the stars / Milky Way! I put my camera on a tripod and left the shutter open for a long time.Then I played in Lightroom until thousands of stars appeared even though what I actually could see at the time was the glow of street lights data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 Yeah, but your end results are pretty stunning imo. #1.01 OTT HDR data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
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What makes it's worse is they get more faves than any of my photos //static.avforums.com/styles/avf/smilies/facepalm.gifdata:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 Nice camera! data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
I need to look at more Astro data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
What I've seen suggests a lot of time and effort. The subject isn't a favourite but I admire the effort and technique.
I've not seen many pics of selfie taking so that's one to track down too!
HDR landscapes data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 wow! Is that a common occurrence? I need to check out more landscape groups data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
Ultra wide angle of a spiral staircase anyone? data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7