thanatos
Hagakure with perfume
Does anyone else get the urge to punch a wall when they read yet again about long exposure shots of waves on rocks being described as 'ethereal'? :bang:
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nico
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Ahaha! Funny question 😀!
I know lot's of clichè but in italian, sometimes with my brother we try to have a conversation linking together all the clichè we know so we can get a ..."surreal" dialogue 😉
Bye.
Nico
I know lot's of clichè but in italian, sometimes with my brother we try to have a conversation linking together all the clichè we know so we can get a ..."surreal" dialogue 😉
Bye.
Nico
Sparrow
Veteran
Yes; they should avoid clichés like the plaguethanatos said:
Silva Lining
CanoHasseLeica
Heh,
Well that would be an oxymoron as one of the definitions of etheral is "belonging to the heavans or the celestial sphere'
Some of the photo comments in Amateur Photgraphy magazine are like this. A picture of a mangy lion at the local zoo is accompanied by the caption
"Bob has captured the wild essence of these majestic animals"
Or a candid of an old man out shopping in tescos :
"Sally's photo shows the proud dignity of our elder citizens"
Not saying I could do better, just find them funny.
I sometimes thing that the range of photos they get sent must be small, as some of the ones that appear are pretty dire.
Last weeks Mike Malony column included a picture of some out of focus dustbins.
But I guess, as I don't have the guts to send my pics for critique I shouldn't really judge!! (But I will 😀 )
Well that would be an oxymoron as one of the definitions of etheral is "belonging to the heavans or the celestial sphere'
Some of the photo comments in Amateur Photgraphy magazine are like this. A picture of a mangy lion at the local zoo is accompanied by the caption
"Bob has captured the wild essence of these majestic animals"
Or a candid of an old man out shopping in tescos :
"Sally's photo shows the proud dignity of our elder citizens"
Not saying I could do better, just find them funny.
I sometimes thing that the range of photos they get sent must be small, as some of the ones that appear are pretty dire.
Last weeks Mike Malony column included a picture of some out of focus dustbins.
But I guess, as I don't have the guts to send my pics for critique I shouldn't really judge!! (But I will 😀 )
payasam
a.k.a. Mukul Dube
If there were no clichés, how would we identify the original?
thanatos
Hagakure with perfume
Stewart: Come over here and say that (you're only a few miles from me).
Silva: How did you guess? AP is where I saw the ethereal comment yet again. There was also a 'poise and drama' or somesuch garbage describing a picture of a stamen this week. I despair. It's good for second hand ads, though.
Silva: How did you guess? AP is where I saw the ethereal comment yet again. There was also a 'poise and drama' or somesuch garbage describing a picture of a stamen this week. I despair. It's good for second hand ads, though.
zuikologist
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Silva Lining said:
AP is becoming extremely irritating. They seems to have some idea that everyone wants to shoot wild landscapes with a 3x ND grad at 5 o'clock in the morning using . There is very little reportage/street photography from current AP readers (perhpas understandably?), though there is sometimes some good coverage of past photogrpahers.
As for the winning photo of their recent competition, the less said the better - again imho.
jaapv
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Well Chris, when you have had enough of AP you can always find refuge in this place 🙂
zuikologist
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Jaap - thanks, I may take you up the invitation one day!
It is not so much landscape photography as the way everyone wants to be Joe Cornish (famous Brit landscape photogrpaher, no offence intended to Mr Cornish etc etc) producing colour photos with infinite DOF and usually no humans in the frame. As an example:
http://www.joecornish.com/portfolio/ne/8.htm
It is not so much landscape photography as the way everyone wants to be Joe Cornish (famous Brit landscape photogrpaher, no offence intended to Mr Cornish etc etc) producing colour photos with infinite DOF and usually no humans in the frame. As an example:
http://www.joecornish.com/portfolio/ne/8.htm
beethamd
Unix-like
Sparrow said:
No; never generalise.
Sparrow
Veteran
Only a joke, (clichés like the plague)!!beethamd said:
beethamd
Unix-like
me too - never generalise - get it?
Sparrow
Veteran
at the end of the day.........yes
thanatos
Hagakure with perfume
Sometimes I exaggerate more than anyone in the Universe.
Sparrow
Veteran
Sometimes I overdo the hyperbole
beethamd
Unix-like
Oh boy do I hate misanthropes.
Sparrow
Veteran
you win, had to look it up😉beethamd said:
beethamd
Unix-like
AP also refer readers to "an online auction site, such as ebay".
BTW Do you get to Bolton Abbey much? Might go there this w/end.
BTW Do you get to Bolton Abbey much? Might go there this w/end.
thanatos
Hagakure with perfume
Last went to Bolton Abbey about 2 years ago and I didn't have my G2 or IIIf then. In fact, I remember - Mrs thanatos had just bought me a Nikon F65 for my birthday so I used that. I'll have to have a sort through my old pics and see what I took.
I'm down visiting the folks in Swansea this w/e.
I'm down visiting the folks in Swansea this w/e.
thanatos
Hagakure with perfume
BTW, seeing the thread heading "Cliché by thanatos" makes it sound like eau de cologne, don't you think?
