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Which nude cliche' do you hate the most?
A few of these popped up on another post, and got me to thinking about the worst visual cliche's we see in the galleries of seasoned pros and rank novices alike. List your worst cliche's.... we can take it. Here are a few to get you started: -- The "American Beauty" re-creation shot (rose petals, bathwater) -- For that matter, any flower petals on nudes -- The caution/police yellow tape bikini -- Belt across the nipples -- Fake blood in a tub -- The "shy" pose (one arm across the breasts.. the implied nude special) -- Anything with angel wings -- Licking a sawblade -- Self-given frontal wedgie/camel-toe -- Heavily back-lit sillhouettes in black & white with the head and feet cropped out Which is not to say that any one of these can't be done well (even my gallery has a 'shy pose' in it: https://www.modelmayhem.com/pic.php?pic … 0d727673dc ) but when approaching the above you need to proceed with extreme caution (and not just caution tape.) I'm sure I'm missing quite a few... fill me in! Apr 13 06 04:12 am Link here we go again... Apr 13 06 04:20 am Link For me..probably the caution tape photos because it gets me wondering what's being cautioned...are ther herpies under that tape or is it really a guy under there? - you know sick thoughts like that pop up in my head and we can't have that! Apr 13 06 04:24 am Link groupw wrote: Wouldn't this be classified as cliche'? Apr 13 06 04:24 am Link I don`t hate any really. I hate badly done versions. Apr 13 06 04:28 am Link groupw wrote: That is my favorite cliche'. My thoughts exactly. Apr 13 06 07:35 am Link How many poses are going to be truly original though? At some point all poses will be covered, all photos will be covered and ANYTHING done ever after will be a copy. I dont mind the cliches actually, I prefer them with a bit of a twist voyerstically but its often the model I then look at to see if they give something "extra"that makes the pose their own. Apr 13 06 07:35 am Link Sirensong wrote: GOOD POINT! Pretty much any pose is a repeat by now but that doesn't mean we can't all put our best into them....A great image is a great image....I look to the impact it has on me and my heart...not on whether some one else has posed in a similar fashion....art is in the eye of the beholder. Apr 13 06 07:43 am Link Unique Nudes wrote: Darn...these were the only GOOD ideas for shoots I have come up with so far. (Except for the saw blade one...that one never dawned on me.) Apr 13 06 07:51 am Link Far West Imaging wrote: By the way. Apr 13 06 07:53 am Link I don't need to see any more single light source from the side against a black background images. I think letting the off-side fall into shadow against a black background is a lost opportunity to define shape. Throw another light in there, folks. Apr 13 06 09:43 am Link Unique Nudes wrote: All nudes need to be done with extreme caution - there are too many poorly done nudes cliche' or not. Apr 13 06 09:48 am Link you forgot the legs together candies in the crotch shot. If that doesn't say "eat me" I don't know what does. I actually saw a very creative adaptation of this with a snail...https://www.modelmayhem.com/pic.php?pic … 9c6ecbb8c8 Apr 13 06 09:51 am Link any pics on the train trax Apr 13 06 09:52 am Link Arm across the breast/ cupping the breast as if they were going somewhere. Apr 13 06 09:56 am Link anything in my portfolio Apr 13 06 10:01 am Link Looknsee Photography wrote: amen Apr 13 06 10:08 am Link All that damn nudity! It's so overdone!  Apr 13 06 11:28 am Link Unique Nudes wrote: This only bothers me when its done for no reason - other than the model "doesn't do nudes". Otherwise, keep your shirt on. Apr 13 06 01:32 pm Link "Belt across nipples" UUUURRGH that annoys me slightly when women do that, But Makes me want to RIP IT OFF when men do it. Its fairly commom pratice for certain cosplay characters, but looks stupid as can be. Guys should not be trying to hide thier nipples, it makes them look like women....... also if I see one more guy with thier penis in thier hand so that its an implied nude...... I don't want to see it, but I also don't want to see you hiding it like its something to be sought after. Apr 13 06 05:18 pm Link Ransom J wrote: No kidding. There is always new stuff to be added. My least favorite cliche' is the bored photographer act who's "been there, done that." Apr 13 06 07:21 pm Link I just don't understand why we must run through the same list of overused shots every 3-4 weeks. If you don't like it, move on! Take some shots you think are interesting (though someone else WILL consider them cliche'). Why get all worked about something that isn't hurting anyone? Apr 13 06 11:58 pm Link Looknsee Photography wrote: Apr 14 06 12:06 am Link I really hate the ones with the pillowfights. And the ones with the models covered in axle grease wrenching on a hotrod. And the ones where the model is superimposed on the top of the Chrysler Building. Oh yeah, and the one where the nude male model is being fondled by the female in business dress. -D Apr 14 06 12:10 am Link I hate the ones with the ugly models Apr 14 06 12:14 am Link D. Brian Nelson wrote: Yeah...you lie like a rug. Apr 14 06 12:15 am Link Every 2-3 weeks is not often enough. Let's start a new thread every day! Anything with a teddy bear. Anything that has the whole picture desaturated with just one part (such as lips) in color. Anything with guns. Apr 14 06 12:18 am Link Lapis wrote: I seldom lie. Ok this time I did. I think an old Richard Warren picture got that scene in my head and it's never gone away. Or it might not have been his, but it was in a book with some of his photographs that impressed me. Being old sucks - memory isn't as good ... well it's never been really good... Apr 14 06 12:19 am Link Kevin Bargeron wrote: EWWWWW that's just gross!!!!!!!!! Apr 14 06 12:20 am Link Kevin Bargeron wrote: Too bad the photographer put his mark on the other snail pic and not that one...lol. Those are some of the best pics in her port. imo. Apr 14 06 12:24 am Link D. Brian Nelson wrote: You don't lie very much, so you aren't good at it, is that your defense? Apr 14 06 12:26 am Link Glamour Boulevard wrote: exactly ! It always great to see new version on old ideas Apr 14 06 12:27 am Link Lapis wrote: No, my defense is that I've been drinking a lot. Total dissatisfaction raises its ugly head again. Apr 14 06 12:34 am Link D. Brian Nelson wrote: Well, hopefully when we meet I can schedule you for a dissatisfaction biopsy and possible surgery. The results of such an intervention makes good fertilizer. Apr 14 06 12:36 am Link Hmm. That shot most of my to-do list. Darn. Apr 14 06 12:38 am Link I hate the ones with lesbian midgets with 38dds going at each other. Come on, how many times do we have to see this and say ENOUGH, it's been done already! Apr 14 06 12:40 am Link I also hate the cliche' of two naked straight girls pretending to kiss and stuff. Or three of them. -Don Edit: No, actually I like that one. Nevermind. Apr 14 06 12:40 am Link The Rose petals have been done to death and in the UK what is known as the Christine Keeler pose. Apr 14 06 04:32 am Link I completely fail to see the need to get worked up to the point of hatred over an image that doesn't grab me. Just move along to the next one, it's not that big a deal. Apr 14 06 09:54 am Link Depands how the cliches above you mentioned are shot. Years ago I saw an amazing B&W shot of what you call "The caution/police yellow tape bikini" in an abandoned building. It was simply stunning. Far more creative then shooting the usual pretty blond/brunette shot in a studio or on a road side place. For me shooting, to your face simpllistic beauty/nude pin-up shots are more cliche then anything. What makes an image successful? In my humble opinion, if you can create a strong emotion (positive or negative) or make people stop, think & talk about it, you got it. Cheers, Hera Bell Apr 14 06 11:18 am Link |
