Photographer
Monsignor Photographic
Posts: 175
Guildford, England, United Kingdom
Kevin Connery wrote:
This is a partial list of older threads. It might be worth reviewing some of them to ensure no cliche is overlooked.
Photography Talk > The Ultimate Cliche List. (My collection of top clichés for reference purposes.)
Photography Talk > allusion vs. cliche
Photography Talk > pleez, no more angel wings on girls (50+ posts)
Photography Talk > Cliches... (15+ posts)
Photography Talk > cliché
Photography Talk > 'hand/arm bra' shots
Photography Talk > Split toning.. Is this the new caution tape?
Photography Talk > Rail Road Tracks
Photography Talk > Over done pose....... (Handbra)
Photography Talk > 5 of the Most cliche Themes... Add to the list (80+ posts)
Photography Talk > photo cliches (10+ posts)
Photography Talk > The Unofficial List of Cliche ideas.
General Industry > Are studio photographs becoming cliche?? (60+ posts)
General Industry > Cemetery shoot--too cliche'd and overdone?
General Industry > cliche
General Industry > Time to retire these ideas... (40+ posts-with some examples of lots-of-cliché in one shot)
General Industry > Most Overused Cliche Cheesy Prop ? (100+ posts)
General Industry > Stop with the model holding up a picture frame!!! (80+ posts)
General Industry > Models with guns!
General Industry > most overused photo concepts or themes! (100+ posts)
General Industry > What do wings and cowboy hats have in common?
General Industry > Belt as a bra
General Industry > Resolution: Let's Not Photograph These Cliches (110+ posts)
General Industry > angel wings and guns
General Industry > Caution Tape the most overused Photo Cliche or... (130+ posts)
General Industry > Fur lined parka hoods...
General Industry > Selective Coloring.
General Industry > Is the gas mask the new caution tape? (80+ posts)
General Industry > If I see one more model in front of the Jesus wall (Location clichés)
General Industry > Angel wings. (âStop it. Just..... stop.â)
General Industry > Angel Wings (Ask for where-to-buy, gets cliché comments)
General Industry > I don't shoot angel wings....
General Industry > Which nude cliche' do you hate the most? (60+ posts)
General Industry > Cliche photos we actually like:
General Industry > Manual of cliche shots?
General Industry > Up 'n Coming Cliche... MASKS ! (25+ posts)
General Industry > Moratorium. Photo Cliche Number 1.
General Industry > What are cliché photographs? (160+ posts)
General Industry > Cliche / over used poses (50+ posts)
General Industry > Cliche Photo Thread(s)?
General Industry > What cliche will you NEVER shoot ? (200+ posts)
General Industry > How Soon Will These Be The Next Cliche? (25+ posts, colored bubbles)
General Industry > No more caution tape and fake blood... (45+ posts)
General Industry > The Obligatory Cliche Photo - protect yourself
General Industry > Overdone shots you'd like to see go away for good (200+ posts, started 10/22/09)
General Industry > Most irritating clichés (100+ posts, started 12/31/2007)
Model Colloquy > no more hand-over-boob shots...... (130+ posts)
Model Colloquy > Fur hat shots - overdone or still looking good
Hair, Makeup & Styling > please lose the wings
Hair, Makeup & Styling > April cover of Zink- Caution Tape?!?!?! Ewww
Critique > When did this become a cliche? (Wheatfields)
Off-Topic Discussion > The List of Tired Cheezy Overused Props
Off-Topic Discussion > no more parka hoods, please (146 posts, locked)
Off-Topic Discussion > no more bland parka hoods, please (55 posts, locked, follow-up)
Off-Topic Discussion > Are balloons the new caution tape?
Off-Topic Discussion > She Gave Me "the Fingerâ
Off-Topic Discussion > Photography Pet Peeves... (Labeled pet peeves, but the first entry is RR tracks and angelwings)
Deliberate clichésâ¦
Critique > Cliche photos (deliberately shooting cliché images)
General Industry > Cliche Photo Contest - Official Posting Thread. (65+ posts)
General Industry > Cliche Photo Contest Winner (35+ posts)
General Industry > For Eric M-B and all you cliche lovers
General Industry > Concept Shot of the Day Contest....CLICHE'S!
General Industry > Ultimate Cliche' Shot
And, of course, the threads about cliché threadsâ¦
Cliche hate threads.. (25+ posts)
The Anti-Cliche!
The biggest cliche on this site is... (15+ posts)
Cliche hate threads.. (25+ posts)
What about the cliche' threads?
Thereâs also a site dedicated to photo clichés:
PhotoCliches.com. You have too much free time !!
Photographer
Accidental Plateau
Posts: 7715
Brooklyn, New York, US
Monsignor Photographic wrote:
You have too much free time !! It is also a cliche on this board to point out how many other cliche posts there have been......
Model
Teh Kitten
Posts: 161
Macon, Georgia, US
Girls on toilets / either or underwear around ankles
Photographer
Vanishing Point Ent
Posts: 1707
Los Angeles, California, US
Sungoddess Studios wrote:
For our own personal entertainment. I want to start a list of cliche photo concepts. I know I have seen other lists in the past. This is the "All New New Cliche Idea Massacre List"
OK, lets hear it, Short & Sweet. A Thread of Lists of Cliche Ideas, is soooo Cliche.
Photographer
StromePhoto
Posts: 922
Kalamazoo, Michigan, US
Vanishing Point Ent wrote:
A Thread of Lists of Cliche Ideas, is soooo Cliche. Pointing out that a thread about cliche's being a cliche, is cliche. We're going to reach cliche critical mass soon 
Photographer
Cliff from NJ
Posts: 1430
Clinton, New Jersey, US
photos of people smiling.
Photographer
New Dawn Photography
Posts: 3015
San Ramon, California, US
Giving the camera the finger.
Photographer
Glen Berry
Posts: 2797
Huntington, West Virginia, US
Digital images composed of pixels. Film images composed of silver grains. Film images composed of dye clouds. Really, those have all been done to death! 
Photographer
Carlos Occidental
Posts: 10583
Los Angeles, California, US
Michael Bonner II wrote:
I'm gonna go with "shooting film" If film is cliche, digital is ten times the cliche, because everyone is shooting digital. Duh.
Model
Avangeline
Posts: 78
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Guitar's that never get played...
Photographer
Thoresons Photography
Posts: 16
Hollandale, Minnesota, US
Nude model and hasidic rabbi knelt side by side @ the wailing wall.
Model
Avangeline
Posts: 78
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Although cliche chat about cliche lists is sooo cliche...
Sometimes one needs to vent.
Photographer
Daphne Photo
Posts: 1
Jackson, Mississippi, US
Norman Gould wrote:
...so damn here I am under a bridge, on a railroad track, going into a tunnel...humm, must have taken a wrong turn!
LOL Haha!
Photographer
norm la coe photography
Posts: 2062
Naples, Florida, US
stillben wrote:
thumbs in waist of underwear x 100. so borrrrrring
same with bikini bottom
Photographer
Sungoddess Studios
Posts: 5191
Keyport, New Jersey, US
Rebel Photo wrote:
I just couldn't help myself I wish PlasticPuppet was still running. I'd like to see just how many times this thread has been done, just out of curiosity. OK, I know its an old horse that's been beat till it no longer pulls.
sendu's search is ok for some things.
Photographer
Kent Kay Photography
Posts: 247
Palm Springs, California, US
boobs... oh wait... never mind. LMAO.
Model
Kitty LaRose
Posts: 12735
Kansas City, Missouri, US
I'm shocked! No one's mentioned MySpace snapshots/self-portraits! Hahaha!
Photographer
Henri3
Posts: 7392
Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
Well I've done 1/2 of these by now with the exception of caution tape & nude in gas mask...
I may be a hack but hopefully have a modicum of taste-pride.
It could be fun the turn a few of these on their head and see what's possible.
Thankfully no one mentioned fishnet hose, and that's good for another couple years...many models I shoot have never done this and it's a classic look even though cliche'
Love to know what the next altlook might be if goth-fetish-emo fades from popularity
a few that're still safe to try
seaweed covered fashion nudes
nude bodypainting with fingerpaint
graffittied models
nude hanging upside down playing the violin
any model using a handbra is warned and fined for 2nd offense
Photographer
Sungoddess Studios
Posts: 5191
Keyport, New Jersey, US
hey I do self portraits!
Cliche, Photographer with crappy portfolio giving seminars and lectures.
Photographer
Craig Thomson
Posts: 13462
Tacoma, Washington, US
kettle calling the pot black....
Photographer
oscar rabeiro
Posts: 670
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US
Hamza wrote:
Everything's already been done, let's just hang up our cameras and all go work for McDonalds.... that's been done before unfortunately..
Photographer
RGK Photography
Posts: 4695
Wilton, Connecticut, US
Michael Bonner II wrote:
I'm gonna go with "shooting film" Charles West wrote:
If film is cliche, digital is ten times the cliche, because everyone is shooting digital. Duh. Very Nice
Photographer
MB-2
Posts: 4800
New York, New York, US
Charles West wrote:
If film is cliche, digital is ten times the cliche, because everyone is shooting digital. Duh. Nah, way, dude- cats have been shooting film for like centuries. That stuff is soooo played out. I mean, come on- everyone acts like they were the first person to use a darkroom, when it's been done a million times before. Talk about zero originality.
Photographer
Samhain Images
Posts: 110
Cork, Cork, Ireland
RGK Photography wrote:
Michael Bonner II wrote:
I'm gonna go with "shooting film" Very Nice Let's face it. Photography is a cliché!!! :-(
Photographer
Kevin Connery
Posts: 17824
El Segundo, California, US
Monsignor Photographic wrote:
You have too much free time !! That's a cliché.
Seriously, a second or three whenever the topic comes up, and over time, it adds up.
j u s t k a t r i n a wrote:
I'm shocked! No one's mentioned MySpace snapshots/self-portraits! Hahaha! It's in the list I cited. Multiple times.
Photographer
Kevin Connery
Posts: 17824
El Segundo, California, US
Michael Bonner II wrote:
Nah, way, dude- cats have been shooting film for like centuries. That stuff is soooo played out. Most cats seem to shoot digital. I don't know of any cats who shot film on a regular basis, but there are a lot of cats shooting digital.
Photographer
MB-2
Posts: 4800
New York, New York, US
Kevin Connery wrote:
Most cats seem to shoot digital. I don't know of any cats who shot film on a regular basis, but there are a lot of cats shooting digital. Hahaha - nice!
Photographer
Herman van Gestel
Posts: 2266
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
nude model on the beach? nude model on the sofa? nude model on a chair? nude model at a window? nude model in kitchen H.
Photographer
White Lace Studios
Posts: 1719
Mesa, Arizona, US
How about - A Nude model wearing wings, holding a picture frame, doing the hand bra, wrapped up in caution tape, wearing a parka hood, standing on railroad tracks.
Photographer
Sungoddess Studios
Posts: 5191
Keyport, New Jersey, US
Kevin Connery wrote:
Most cats seem to shoot digital. I don't know of any cats who shot film on a regular basis, but there are a lot of cats shooting digital. I taught my cat to shoot. He's an alcoholic,(for real) used to smoke, coffee drinking,
Party animal.
Photographer
Grey Photographs
Posts: 65
Orlando, Florida, US
A stiletto heel lifting a thong.
Photographer
BodyShotsNY
Posts: 201
Ridge, New York, US
Fiddlers Green Photo wrote:
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. {10} Is there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new"? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.
Nothing new under the sun Eccl. 1:9 +1
Photographer
BodyShotsNY
Posts: 201
Ridge, New York, US
I feel the same way about web pages.
Any technique in Javascript you want to do... has been done. Find it and then cop... er, emulate it!
I mean how many ways can you shoot a naked body? In a way, the NUDE in and of itself is redundant. Breasts, rear, genitalia... all been shot ad nauseum.
But, hell folks, let's keep shooting and enjoy it.
By the way, what IS it with naked women and traintracks?
Photographer
Les Jinques Photography
Posts: 337
Orlando, Florida, US
I really hate the "girl with long hair flipping her head back and capturing the stream of water flying in a beautiful arch" but not because it is a cliche...It's cuz my girlfriend died doing this cuz we had been drinking and after the 32nd take she got wicked dizzy and fell in and hit her head on a rock and drowned. The floating face down in the stream shot looked really cool though.
Photographer
Kevin Connery
Posts: 17824
El Segundo, California, US
White Lace Studios wrote:
How about - A Nude model wearing wings, holding a picture frame, doing the hand bra, wrapped up in caution tape, wearing a parka hood, standing on railroad tracks. How about a belt bra instead? If you'll take that exchange, it's been done.
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There's another one with a bathtub--still on the RR tracks--but I can't remember the photographer.
Photographer
MisterC
Posts: 15162
Portland, Oregon, US
Rebel Photo wrote:
Creating cliche' threads listing cliche' ideas? This was my first & only thought. Soon, even this type of response will be cliche!
Photographer
Moore Photo Graphix
Posts: 5288
Washington, District of Columbia, US
RL_11214 wrote:
Edgy people producing killer work using one or more of the aforementioned cliches.
If everyone is edgy, then nobody is.
If everything is killer, then nothing is. ![https://www.modelmayhem.com/images/smilies/lol.png]() LMAO!
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