Forums > General Industry > The Unofficial List of Cliche ideas.

Photographer

ChicagoModeling

Posts: 382

Chicago, Illinois, US

RDPhoto - Ric wrote:
toilet

The toilet. So many girls get to sit on a toilet and have their picture taken.

How about the credit card shot that slides through her ass? Clever concept for shooting ads for credit card companies.

The beat up look. Now there's a real classic. Bet those would have gone big back in the day of the detective magazines you bought at the drug store.

The lovers. Yes, two girls kissing each other or in an embrace with their boobs touching each others.

Now none of this creativity has ever made it in advertising, so someone is having limiting the potential of such creativity.

May 30 11 02:07 pm Link

Photographer

Blue Mini Photography

Posts: 1703

Tempe, Arizona, US

Photos shot on Film
Photos shot with digital camera

Anything not shot by me wink

May 30 11 02:15 pm Link

Photographer

Arizona Shoots

Posts: 28657

Phoenix, Arizona, US

Sungoddess Studios wrote:
Making lists of cliche concepts
Caution tape
Train tracks
gas mask
hand bras
Snakes on a naked model
Abandoned building
Brick walls
old car
old truck
motorcycle
train
dirt on the model
wet model
legs up, while on the back
on all 4s
that bikini pose that you would never see anywhere but in a photo.
black and white photo of  Yellowstone park
Cake on the face
Frozen chickens
Sports balls
any color of jello
angel wings
faerie wings
bedroom/couch shot with stiletto heel caught in g-string/thong
rooftop
graffiti
guitar in hand
lamp post
beautiful sunset lighting
fake orgasm
"girl with long hair flipping her head back and capturing the stream of water flying in a beautiful arch"
pinup' white bkgrnd with model posing with a colored circle behind
Ophelia
bathtub
toilet
Belt bra
rose petals
Tutus
Big Lollipop sucker shots,
Sitting on the window sill looking out wistfully or sadly
Milk and cereal in a bathtub
Rose petals on the water in a bathtub
Sports jerseys on girls
Licking or sucking on stiletto heels
The dumped prom queen
cemetery shots,
feathers over the eyes
swords/knife
Handguns.
rifle
Sunglasses.
Leather.
eye makeup/ excessive makeup
Christmas outfit shots
Big Booty shot
Saran wrap
School Girl Look
Waterfall shots
obscure yoga poses
leaning on column
underwear around ankles
Giving the camera the finger
MySpace snapshots
fishnet
painted model
graffiti model

However, would you be impressed if someone somehow managed to combine all of these into a single photo?

May 30 11 02:18 pm Link

Photographer

Martin Philippo

Posts: 968

Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

An impressive list, funny that I dind't see " blond girl in bikini on the beach" here.
Or is that because so many people here make such photographs and are afraid to admit?

May 30 11 03:08 pm Link

Photographer

D Gabriel

Posts: 8

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Wow, these are great ideas! I want to try them all! Heck, I think Im going to combine some of them.

Somebody get me a roll of caution tape. Im shooting a sand and whip cream-covered-girl-with-caution-tape-panties-around-ankles-wearing-hand bra-on-toilet-on-train-tracks-next-to-abandoned-building-in-rainshower-in-clown-makeup-faking-orgasm-in-front-of-a-motorcycle-giving-me-the-finger-with-a-football.

This is gonna be good...

May 31 11 12:48 am Link

Model

Ms Click

Posts: 14

Fort Worth, Texas, US

So here is what I did.
I know so many ideas out there are cliche, so I took a cliche pinup kitchen shoot and added a little "spice" to it.

https://www.modelmayhem.com/portfolio/pic/21597950

One upping the cliche ideas is the only to veer from that.  And I believe someone said it best, it is all cliche.

May 31 11 10:27 am Link

Photographer

Simmagination

Posts: 3129

Westminster, Maryland, 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"
For no better reason, what the heck lets use one of these on our next photoshoot. smile

OK, lets hear it, Short & Sweet.

The list so far;
Making lists of cliche concepts
Caution tape
Train tracks
gas mask
hand bras
Snakes on a naked model
Abandoned building
Brick walls
old car
old truck
motorcycle
train
dirt on the model
wet model
legs up, while on the back
on all 4s
that bikini pose that you would never see anywhere but in a photo.
black and white photo of  Yellowstone park
Cake on the face
Frozen chickens
Sports balls
any color of jello
angel wings
faerie wings
bedroom/couch shot with stiletto heel caught in g-string/thong
rooftop
graffiti
guitar in hand
lamp post
beautiful sunset lighting
fake orgasm
"girl with long hair flipping her head back and capturing the stream of water flying in a beautiful arch"
pinup' white bkgrnd with model posing with a colored circle behind
Ophelia
bathtub
toilet
Belt bra
rose petals
Tutus
Big Lollipop sucker shots,
Sitting on the window sill looking out wistfully or sadly
Milk and cereal in a bathtub
Rose petals on the water in a bathtub
Sports jerseys on girls
Licking or sucking on stiletto heels
The dumped prom queen
cemetery shots,
feathers over the eyes
swords/knife
Handguns.
rifle
Sunglasses.
Leather.
eye makeup/ excessive makeup
Christmas outfit shots
Big Booty shot
Saran wrap
School Girl Look
Waterfall shots
obscure yoga poses
leaning on column
underwear around ankles
Giving the camera the finger
MySpace snapshots
fishnet
painted model
graffiti model

Wow- that's gonna be a challenge to fit into one gloriously epic cliche' photo yikes

May 31 11 10:46 am Link

Photographer

Elijah Pendragon

Posts: 4091

New Haven, Connecticut, US

Martin Philippo wrote:
An impressive list, funny that I dind't see " blond girl in bikini on the beach" here.
Or is that because so many people here make such photographs and are afraid to admit?

word, that shit is just so old.

May 31 11 11:47 am Link

Photographer

ninjaprints

Posts: 2457

London, England, United Kingdom

there are actually a tonne of things there I would enjoy shooting, cliche or not... I really dont care, Im fairly new with shooting staged shots with people, be a shame to miss out just because someone says its a duff idea smile

May 31 11 12:36 pm Link

Photographer

KBSTUDIO

Posts: 296

STATEN ISLAND, New York, US

1) Bath tub full of candy with model(s) in it/Candy scene

2) Honey/Syrup/Rasberry sauce on the model

3) Strictly ass shots in your Glamor port

May 31 11 12:55 pm Link

Photographer

SAND DIAL

Posts: 6688

Santa Monica, California, US

teddy bears, kids toys, lollypops

Jun 01 11 10:18 am Link