Popular scenes

[Ted]

Being a visitor to europe, I frequently find myself taking photos of some of the most visited and photographed places/structures in the world, but am then reluctant to share and get feedback because they fall into the 'cliched shot' category. I'm quite interested to see the different ways we have all captured popular subjects. If you have a couple in the file, dig them up and slap them here.

I'll start with one from here in England:

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/500/Brighton_Piee_small.jpg

[Duckydoodle]

I haven't got one just wanted to say I really like this. Great composition and wonderful colours :)

[Hacker]

Who cares if they are cliched or not? A great shot is a great shot, no matter how many times the same scene has been photographed, light changes all the time and combining that with every photographers artistic interpretation of the scene will guarantee a box full of cliches.

Great shot by the way but it looks like it could do with a slight straighten.

[kelack]

I like this - the lighting and the sharpness - good photo :thumbs:

[Chillijam]

Maybe this one isn't a cliche as such, maybe more of a classic image...

http://www.zombiesheep.co.uk/album/albums/userpics/VetsHighway.jpg

Taken on the Veterans Highway between Homosassa and Tampa in Florida last December.

[WillyNelson]

I love this kind of stuff, the same subject but from a different view. Hopefuly this thread can become a showcase of peoples alternative takes. It'd be interesting to see how many have the same subject but wildly differing images.

[Ted]

Exactly what I was hoping for Willy

[Ted]

Here's another of mine........
(needs a straighten as well)

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/500/Tor3.jpg

[Witch]

OK - I'll join in on this - one from the UK first off - possibly THE most cliched London shot imaginable....

"Underground, overground"
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g45/Photozone72/9554UndergroundOverground.jpg

And one from Paris earlier this year.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g45/Photozone72/Paris%20-%20January%202008/9391EiffelTowerMono.jpg

The London Eye has to be one of the city's most shot landmarks these days - yet I still return there time after time trying to get "something different" - I think sometimes that urge to try to break the mould is what keeps something like that being photographed, and by "photographed" - I mean rather than just snapped by tourists.

[Ted]

Thats a great mono conversion of the tower. Like it a lot. was that with your 12-24?

[Witch]

Thank you! :) Yes - that lens got one HECK of a lot of use by us both in Paris! The other half finally "got" why I'd spent the previous ten months raving about it!

[Yv]

Ok, a couple of my London shots, very very cliched the first so used processing to make it stand out a little bit

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/1293/theeye.jpg


Then this one, one of my favourited shots of St Pauls, and I have taken more than a few..

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/1002/stpaulsbw.jpg

[Witch]

I like both of those LL. Both subjects I enjoy shooting myself, as I think you know! (We ought to have an "Eye" thread, maybe?!)

[Yv]

:lol: Maybe, but I suspect you and I could fill it between us. Do you know I still havent been ON the bloody thing! over 3 years in the big smoke, photographed it umpteen times, never yet got round to joining the queue :cuckoo:

Your Eiffel shot is an absolute cracker btw, great conversion. :thumbs:
You know there is an argument to say that when you have seen something photographed so often, it does give you ideas of what to do and not to do in terms of 'artistic interpretation' so cliched images arent that bad really