Photoblogging Cliches

From PhotoblogsWiki

Photoblogging is generally undertaken by amateur photographers. It is often the case that photobloggers shoot the same subject and these subjects have become known as clichés within photoblogging. A list of such subjects includes:

• Flower macros
• Pigeons
• Squirrels
• Shopping trollies
• Eye macros
• Disgarded / ripped chairs
• Mannequins
• Graffiti
• Sunrises
• Sunsets
• Funny signs
• Homeless people
• Zoo pictures
• Aquarium pictures
• Pictures shot and then modified with stock Photoshop filters
• Pictures with Photoshopped tilt shift
• Pictures with Photoshoped holga effects
• Images shot with a holga (just because you used a holga doesn't make it good)
• People in clown makeup (or some other silly costume)
• Fall foliage
• Pretty clouds
• Empty roads
• Abandoned factories
• Abandoned buildings
• Peeling paint
• Barns
• Children fingerpainting
• Bubbles
• Long exposures of the beach at night
• Seagulls
• Swans
• Ducks
• Water reflections
• Couples on the beach
• Your cat
• Any cat

..and many more besides.

More clichés and thoughts on the subject at slower.net.

Perhaps the key thing is to always ask yourself "so what, why should someone care."