Laura Short-Bacher wrote:
Broken chicken pose! LMFHO! I was wondering what it was called.

Also known as power pose. But it will always be popular. It's like the standard pose every model must prove they can look good doing.

MinisterC  wrote:

Naw, I copied that post from a cliche post I was reading earlier... looking for ideas. I wanna do a shot of all the cliche's at once.

I'm thinking 2 ugly girls on a toliet  that is on railroad tracks and they are kissing. Girl one is wearing a gas mask, fairy wings and tape on the nipples, second girl is painted up a like a Joker doll with a watermelon on her head and playing the guitar. And maybe you could have caution tape strung up all over the place and some one mentioned skittles, so lets fill the toilet with skittles. And both girls are making the overly pained screaming face.

Schwarz wrote:

I'm thinking 2 ugly girls on a toliet  that is on railroad tracks and they are kissing. Girl one is wearing a gas mask, fairy wings and tape on the nipples, second girl is painted up a like a Joker doll with a watermelon on her head and playing the guitar. And maybe you could have caution tape strung up all over the place and some one mentioned skittles, so lets fill the toilet with skittles. And both girls are making the overly pained screaming face.

I'm willing to try it!  But I don't think Skittles float; how about Cheesey Poofs?

Tropic Light wrote:
A few years back, I saw a photo taken from the ground of the space shuttle, docked with the International Space Station, in orbit against the background of the sun.

I thought, "Wow, that's original."

I only rarely see a photo that I think is original, but I find the best photos are those that exhibit spontaneity.  I've done some cliche stuff, like the model flipping her hair out of the water, but I'm also looking for a special defining quality.

Precisely:  Take something that's maybe been done before, but add a new twist or simply do it better!  Not dissing creativity, but spontaneity rocks also!

3PPhotos wrote:

OK, I know YOU hate them, but does everybody:

HAHAHAHA!! Awe, thats awesome. I LOL'd

Spooky  bo  Peep wrote:
How about a 1985 toyota camry? Better yet. A broken down 1994 Chrysler Town & Country minivan with the paint chipping from the hood. ducttape holding a rear light on. Dog chewed leather seats...And a dent in the front fender where someone backed/slid into it

I like your style...how about a 1995 gold Buick with rusted rims, a dented front bumper, broken side mirror and a faded hood with sun spots?

I'm totally doing this shoot!

Reby wrote:
- anything candy themed
- selective desaturation
- angel wings
- flat-out copying others (AHEM, b/w photo in the surf)
- the "looking for danger" pose. seriously.

Your second one is tack on...I cant stand selective desaturation anymore...

Schwarz wrote:
I'm thinking 2 ugly girls on a toliet  that is on railroad tracks and they are kissing. Girl one is wearing a gas mask, fairy wings and tape on the nipples, second girl is painted up a like a Joker doll with a watermelon on her head and playing the guitar. And maybe you could have caution tape strung up all over the place and some one mentioned skittles, so lets fill the toilet with skittles. And both girls are making the overly pained screaming face.

Oohhhhh, double the fun. I was only thinking about one girl on the tracks, in a school girl outfit with pig tails in her hair. All wrapped in caution tape and christmas lights, gun in one hand, lolypop in the other. Angel wings, joker facepant and skittles all over the track. Boyfriend escort in the background. And gaint intrusive photographers logo across the image. And some selective desaturating. But TWO girls makes it even more interesting.

I will shoot this soon, and paste it to the end of one of the cliche threads.

MinisterC  wrote:

Oohhhhh, double the fun. I was only thinking about one girl on the tracks, in a school girl outfit with pig tails in her hair. All wrapped in caution tape and christmas lights, gun in one hand, lolypop in the other. Angel wings, joker facepant and skittles all over the track. But TWO girls makes it even more interesting.

I will shoot this soon, and paste it to the end of one of the cliche threads.

If you do, I want like a 24x36 print of it.

oohh, and of course like 30% of all profits because im sure there will be several national and international magazines that will want to publish this extremely original photo.

Boston Pro Photo wrote:

Your second one is tack on...I cant stand selective desaturation anymore...

there is 2 local photography studios here, they mostly do senior photos, they are absolutely gaga over that effect.

Gene Kane wrote:
i'm too lazy to have read the whole thread, but can i assume that wings have been spoken for?

most definitely.

Schwarz wrote:

If you do, I want like a 24x36 print of it.

oohh, and of course like 30% of all profits because im sure there will be several national and international magazines that will want to publish this extremely original photo.

Well if many of the popular cliche's are shot at once, it will no longer be cliche. It will be... original(ish) sarcasm. Like a cliche thread rolled into one shoot. Now I just have to find the right model(s). I may shoot it this week. If not... then next. Need some dry weather, but at least I live by the tracks... where they are long and strait. Perfect.

Aleister Blacke wrote:
How about combining cliches?

angel wings made out of caution tape.

a gas mask made out of skittles (glue em on).

a guitar covered in duct tape.

just a thought.

ok, that would be cool. I've seen a guitar made out of clear packing tape.

Why Dangle wrote:
Girls with their tits out for no particular reason.

Just saying

I second that, along with guys just standing their with their dongs out for no reason taken with what looks like a disposable camera from someone who thinks they are a photographer.

Resonating Art LLC wrote:
This is not to insult photographers or models... but to inspire originality.


1. The Doll-- Mostly done on a Pink Back Ground... ok we get it... the model is a doll... not STOP IT

2. Bath Tub Full of Skittles... Been There Done That... you sucked all the taste out of the rainbow

3. Sexy Teacher Sexy Nurse Sexy Kitten... what about Sexy horse or a sexy trash man or woman or a sexy plummers crack...

4.  Covering your boob with your hands... ok we know your insecure about you nipple but we can see 99% of your boobs... lol you either say NO to Nudes or be butt naked... jokes aside there are 10000000 ways to do implied besides covering the nips

5. Pic of you Fighting, having Sex with killing yourself... I like to call them double mint gum photos... you can do alot with these but people just do the same "fighting yourself pics"

add to the list... just don't add anyones pics... lol

If you want to inspire originality ... then inspire it by sharing your insights into your own originality and what inspired you.

Inspire ... uplift ... focus on what is good in another ... find what works in someones portfolio ... it takes their mind off the things that didn't work ... the unoriginal ... and helps them to focus and perfect their excellence ... which will occasionally be original.  We can't all be original all the time.

When a person becomes proficient at the mundane and routine ... many time this frees them to go beyond.  When the mundane becomes automatic ... then the brain can focus on the next level of their art.

Some would say that few people are inspired by criticism.  I would say that no one is.

Resonating Art LLC wrote:
3. Sexy Teacher Sexy Nurse Sexy Kitten... what about Sexy horse or a sexy trash man or woman or a sexy plummers crack...

Off topic, but I was a sexy school bus for halloween last year.

MinisterC  wrote:
Cliche threads are now cliche.

This is about 20% of what I found when searching cliche threads.

What do wings and cowboy hats have in common?
Time to retire these ideas...
cliché
no more hand-over-boob shots...... (130+ posts)
What cliche will you NEVER shoot ? (140+ posts)
Resolution: Let's Not Photograph These Cliches (110+ posts)
Cliche / over used poses (50+ posts)
Are studio photographs becoming cliche? (60+ posts)
No more caution tape and fake blood... (45+ posts)
Which nude cliche' do you hate the most? (60+ posts)
pleez, no more angel wings on girls (50+ posts)
Cliche Photo Thread(s)? (10+ posts)
Cemetery shoot--too chiche'd and overdone?
Cliches... (15+ posts)
no more bland parka hoods, please (55 posts, locked)
no more parka hoods, please (146 posts, locked)
Photo Cliches (4 posts, locked)
photo cliches (10+ posts)
cliche
Cliche photos we actually like:
Moratorium. Photo Cliche Number 1.
allusion vs. cliche
Up 'n Coming Cliche... MASKS ! (25+ posts)
When did this become a cliche? (Wheatfields)
How Soon Will These Be The Next Cliche? (25+ posts, colored bubbles)
Models with guns!
Stop with the model holding up a picture frame!!!

Deliberate clichés…

Cliche photos. (deliberately shooting cliché images)
Cliche Photo Contest - Official Posting Thread. (65+ posts)
Cliche Photo Contest Winner (35+ posts)
For Eric M-B and all you cliche lovers

And, of course, the threads about cliché threads…

The Anti-Cliche!
The biggest cliche on this site is... (15+ posts)
Cliche hate threads.. (25+ posts)
What about the cliche' threads?

My thoughts exactly. Also, why isn't this thread locked yet? There is an image with nudity posted in as a thread.

-Phen

Tytaniafairy wrote:
Railroad tracks

did that in collage

beautiful chaos wrote:
nude girl in gas mask on with angel wings wrapped in caution tape and sitting on a toilet that is on top of a motorcycle that is on top of a Ferrari...

wtf.

lmaooo

Laura Short-Bacher wrote:
That weird gas mask thing that I don't get.

I will NEVER understand that.