ruslan Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 (edited) Scrolling through the photosites, works I see how the boards/admins promote and hype photos like this Or this I am fed up with that tasteless and uninspired, even boring 2014 cliches. Where is the real thing? Real art? Why do people copycat that feet/boots subject on and on? Some of them add VW Campervans and a fire! All the same! Enough of cloning! Edited February 10, 2020 by William Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Ingold Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 I found one I took in 2018. What's not to like? Cars never age in Seattle. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samstevens Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 You make it too easy ... 1 "You talkin' to me?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Actually posting on the subject of cliches is a cliche see LINK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemorrell Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 @ruslan, OK, you've found a few photos of boots/shoes. So what? 550px, Flick, SmugMug, Instagram and even PN has (HUGELY) a much wider range of photos than you've chosen to rant about. Why would you choose footwear? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Ingold Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Why would you choose footwear? Maybe a fetish thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inoneeye Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Why do people copycat that feet/boots subject on and on? easy target, sometimes they are just in the way. geter done 2 i n o n e e y e Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Parsons Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Even if they don't put a foot wrong, it can be somewhat defeetist. As Ed says, maybe a feetish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Snell Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Give me a foot and I'll take a yard.:) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochen_S Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Why do people copycat that feet/boots subject on and on? Why not? They do the same about family members, vehicles, wedding cakes... If you want art: Create! Seriously: It is a way to tell: I made it here the weather / light aren't that great, right nowwe cheaped out on my makeup artist & hair stylist Only imaginable alternative would be licensing a stock photo (taken in better light) of the very same spot and which travel blog could afford such? Cloning? Whats wrong about it? Some day we 'll have shot the entire selfie-sutra. "Thankyou" had been said before too. But why shouldn't we say it again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn McCreery Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Sometimes it's hard to look down without seeing feet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moving On Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 I hate it when people copy my ideas..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanKlein Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 When traveling through the Southwest USA, we stopped in a hotel in Moab Utah to see the Canyonlands and Arches National Parks. This is my ode to getting some rest that I added to my slide show movie when I got home. Flickr gallery: https://www.flickr.com/photos/alanklein2000/albums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samstevens Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Dear Ruslan, "I've eaten things that didn't complain this much." --Denis Leary LINK 2 "You talkin' to me?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick D. Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 If it is popular on Instagram, it is not cliches, it is trend:) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuart_pratt Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 @ruslan, OK, you've found a few photos of boots/shoes. So what? 550px, Flick, SmugMug, Instagram and even PN has (HUGELY) a much wider range of photos than you've chosen to rant about. Why would you choose footwear? Quite. What about Spiral staircase ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samstevens Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 What about Spiral staircase ? :) Umbrellas, balloons, the color red ... we could go on ... Something Ruslan's complaint fails to take into account is that a good photo may just start with the "named" subject. It's what the photo shows about that subject, how the photo shows it, and sometimes the fact that the photo transcends the subject that can be the keys. Reducing photos to the objects in them is ... well ... how did Ruslan put it? ... "tasteless and uninspired, even boring." "You talkin' to me?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karim Ghantous Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 Those are relatively tame. Actually there's not that much wrong with them really. If you think those are bad... Don't get me started, bro! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samstevens Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 But that photos aren't to be reduced to the objects photographed doesn’t mean that this transcendence can’t still be made in a cliché way. Of course. But thanks for making that explicit. "You talkin' to me?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samstevens Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 In any case, the point is that Ruslan’s description only specifies objects. If the photos he’s thinking of are cliche, he’d have to supply more of a critique than naming the objects he named. I’m not sure the point was critique, though, as much complaint. And the photographic responses that have been posted are effective as such. "You talkin' to me?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moving On Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 Human experience is cliche.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samstevens Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 Human experience is cliche.... "You talkin' to me?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moving On Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 “Speak for yourself” See what I mean...... Arrogance of self delusion notwithstanding... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 There can be many levels of cliches, creating an infinite regress of them. Supposedly the human intellect can't tolerate infinite regresses. That's when, perhaps, we will reach the conclusion that talking about cliches in photography serves no, or very little, purpose. Every photo must stand on its own merit. For example, if the subject matter is cliched, that's not necessarily the end of the story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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