Looknsee Photography wrote:
Let's all resolve not to make photographic cliches this year.  Okay, but what cliches?  What kind of images are you tired of seeing?

My preliminary list includes:

>>>  People wearing costume angel wings.

>>>  "Moody" single light source shadowy images, where the off side is lost against the black background.


What else?

Alan from Aavian Prod wrote:
OK, I will say no to clients and turn down money if you will.

For some reason angel wings and moody shots are really popular right now.  But I agree, along with the roses from American Beauty, they are getting old.

With respect, not quite the response I was looking for.  I'll restate:  what kind of images are you tired of seeing?

Alan from Aavian Prod wrote:
For some reason angel wings ...  are really popular right now.

Erotica for the religious right?

Looknsee Photography wrote:

With respect, not quite the response I was looking for.  I'll restate:  what kind of images are you tired of seeing?

1...crappy bondage/d.i.d. shots
2...crap b/w with a fine art title

Looknsee Photography wrote:
What kind of images are you tired of seeing?

Girls covering their boobs with hair

Wild Horse Photography wrote:

Girls covering their boobs with hair

How about ...girls covering their boobs with hands , lol

...Stacy wrote:
title of my next photoset: Cliche.

I'm going to cover my boobs with my hair and hands, sit in rose petals in a bathtub wearing wings.  Who wants to shoot it?

Put the tub on the railroad tracks and wear a fur-lined hood, and I'm in. 

...Stacy wrote:
title of my next photoset: Cliche.

I'm going to cover my boobs with my hair and hands, sit in rose petals in a bathtub wearing wings.  Who wants to shoot it?

ME!!!

...Stacy wrote:
title of my next photoset: Cliche.

I'm going to cover my boobs with my hair and hands, sit in rose petals in a bathtub wearing wings.  Who wants to shoot it?

ME!!!

Brian Diaz wrote:

Put the tub on the railroad tracks and wear a fur-lined hood, and I'm in. 

Don't forget the stuffed animal

...Stacy wrote:
title of my next photoset: Cliche.

I'm going to cover my boobs with my hair and hands, sit in rose petals in a bathtub wearing wings.  Who wants to shoot it?

Can I just climb in the tub with you instead?

Brian Diaz wrote:

Put the tub on the railroad tracks and wear a fur-lined hood, and I'm in. 

LOL I can do that, there's tracks behind my house!

Eric Muss-Barnes wrote:
Can I just climb in the tub with you instead?

well there won't be room if i have to have a damn stuffed animal in there,  with the wings and the roses and the hair... god, where will i sit?

sigh, while we're at it, i guess we'll have to pencil in my eyebrows.

...Stacy wrote:

LOL I can do that, there's tracks behind my house!

Choose me I'm closer (I think) do the tracks run past a graveyard? (Maybe it's a British thing).

Looknsee Photography wrote:

With respect, not quite the response I was looking for.  I'll restate:  what kind of images are you tired of seeing?

Models in bondage being fed, a la Nine and a Half Weeks.

...Stacy wrote:

well there won't be room if i have to have a damn stuffed animal in there,  with the wings and the roses and the hair... god, where will i sit?

sigh, while we're at it, i guess we'll have to pencil in my eyebrows.

Hey can I get in on the bath tub thing too.  I'm sure we can make room.  I'll take pics of anything that looks good.  It will help out my port.

Wild Horse Photography wrote:

Don't forget the stuffed animal

Stuffed animal?  I'd never shoot someone with a stuffed animal. 

...Stacy wrote:

well there won't be room if i have to have a damn stuffed animal in there,  with the wings and the roses and the hair... god, where will i sit?

sigh, while we're at it, i guess we'll have to pencil in my eyebrows.

While you pencil the brows, we'll figure out how to get the tub and the train tracks next to a brick wall with graffitti on it.

Frisson wrote:

Choose me I'm closer (I think) do the tracks run past a graveyard? (Maybe it's a British thing).

no they run past a half knocked down house that has "katrina you bitch" spraypainted on it.

Looknsee Photography wrote:

With respect, not quite the response I was looking for.  I'll restate:  what kind of images are you tired of seeing?

Models in bondage, being fed fruit, a la Nine and a Half Weeks.

Wild Horse Photography wrote:

While you pencil the brows, we'll figure out how to get the tub and the train tracks next to a brick wall with graffitti on it.

OK, I'm on it!  someone get me a razor!

...Stacy wrote:

no they run past a half knocked down house that has "katrina you bitch" spraypainted on it.

i saw something similar in Detroit

Looknsee Photography wrote:

With respect, not quite the response I was looking for.  I'll restate:  what kind of images are you tired of seeing?

Models in bondage, being fed fruit, a la Nine and a Half Weeks.

...Stacy wrote:

OK, I'm on it!  someone get me a razor!

Nevermind. We'll just "photoshop" it in

T H Taylor wrote:
We've all shot the cliche shots... others will continue to shoot them.
I think it's a shooter's perog to shoot what ever they want to shoot (no matter how cliche, tacky or silly others may think) and it's arrogant for a few artist to try and dictate what other artists can or shoud produce.
Art is subjective
My two cents.

By the way... i get annoyed with the "American Beauty" shot (with the flower petals) but, I say, shoot it if you feel it; you may do it better than any one else has.

Totally agree with you.  Totally arrogant.

...Stacy wrote:
hmmm. caution tape....

Gosh. I can't believe my comrades forgot to mention the stripper's plastic platform shoes. Stacy, better get a list going. We're gonna be at this all night. And, while yer at it, don't forget to tell the personal assistant to bring the 20 pager Model Release.

Wild Horse Photography wrote:

Nevermind. We'll just "photoshop" it in

thank god,  not sure I was willing to make that sacrifice.