Tips & Tricks
25 Photo Clichés You Should Stop Doing Right Now
Are you spending your time with taking selfies, capturing photos of sunsets or putting a giant watermark on your photos? If you do, then this video is probably something you should watch. In another humorous video from DigitalRev, Kai presents 25 photo clichés you, as a photographer, should stop doing right now.
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Here are some of the best clichés you should stop doing. Right now.
#1 The Giant Watermark
Please stop ruining you images by putting a huge watermark on them! I get it, you want to protect your images from being stolen, but if somebody really wanted to steal your image they would.
#2 The Ugly Frame
Don’t put a frame on your image! Sure, a frame can look good, but most of the time your photo will just end up looking like it was taken by an amateur.
#3 The “I’m a Photographer” Selfie
Don’t carry your expensive photography gear to the bathroom – it will annoy other people using the bathroom and your photos will likely not be the best because your camera covers at least half of your face…
# 4 The Crappy HDR
Don’t get me wrong, HDRs can look absolutely amazing when done right, but a lot of people don’t do it right! Everyone knows these overly saturated, over-processed images that almost hurt your eyes. If you want to learn how to create stunning HDR images, we have the SLR Lounge HDR Workshop that teaches everything you need to know to start taking amazing HDRs.
Okay, ‘fess up. Which of these clichés are you guilty of? Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments below.
[via DigitalRev, images via screencaps]
hat was funny. What a goof ball!
I think I did all of them and some I’m still doing, but definitely not #25, damn, I’m going to make a picture of trolley.
I don’t think blurred waterfall is cliché and about Microstock, in year 2009 – yes, but now-days is quite hard to come up with something original.
I don’t know if it’s called cliché, but making numerous photo of one scene that doesn’t change much is quite annoying. Unless it’s some (sport) event or time lapse. I was recently traveling with one tourist group and one women was making a lot of photos with every scene without changing composition or settings like Aperture. Her camera was set to continuous shooting mode – so one click = 2-4 photos. I’m wondering what she will do with all these snapshots.
dudes got some funny talk
I am new to photography, so Digital Rev just gave me 25 new things to try out!
Thanks SLR Lounge and Digital Rev.
What remains if basically everything you can do in photography is being set off as a cliché?
Kai really is funny, indeed. I’d like to spend a week with him to get to do all the crazy stuff that he does ;-)
What?! No railroad tracks?
Yeah, railroad tracks are overplayed
Well Im still new at this, so I will try a few of these out!
i’ll stick with some of these cliches, love them too much to give them up.
Lets try Trolley on railroad track :)
Yes, that would probably be great :)
Big fan of drtv
The way that guy say “Bokeh” gets me every time.
I wish I had a British accent!
I think the queen of everything with an accent would be hilarious! :D
I can totally see you with a british accent…. you should practice one for WPPI next year. :P
David, good to see you here!
It’s good to be here Justin! :D
Awesome video from DRTV as always. That guy from the CC article wanting export options in Lightroom with frames should watch this ;)
Kai is just too damn funny….. I now need to change my profile photo -__- Hahaha
Hahaha! I’m glad you are being inspired by articles from SLR Lounge :)
I totally agree with you :)