The 100 boring stock images you have to take as a rite of passage

[Vetteography]

Thanks to WaltA for this idea and for his opening contributions:

OK, I see your point. Someone should start a thread titled "The 100 boring stock images you have to take as a rite of passage".

1 - Duck
2 - Silky water
3 - your model-wife in field of flowers (oh sorry - thats just Bryan Peterson)
4 - .....

The idea is simple. There are some shots that everyone who owns a DSLR has taken. It is, for lack of a better term, a rite of passage. They are so ubiquitous, so overdone that you only notice if you DON'T see one on their website.

My additions to the list:

4. Long exposure of automotive taillights
5. Lone generic flower on a blurred background. (Rain/dew drop optional)
6...

What shots have you seen that fit the bill? Let's see if we can find the 100 postulated by Walt!

Remember folks, this is all in good fun. :p

[DAMphyne]

Sunrise....sunset.

[DAMphyne]

Oh yeah, a yellow bird on the feeder.

[WeCamps Photography]

"Mirror mirror on the wall, I took a picture, hasn't all?" LOL

The old picture of ones self taking a picture of ones self in the mirror.

And come to think of it, maybe a mirror in the camera store would help them sell more high end pro-line camera's if the sales person could tell the customer,

"Hey you really look great behind that Canon EOS 1DS Mark III! Just step over to the mirror and look at how good that camera will make you look when you are using it!"

Yes, I have taken a mirror self portrait too! LOL

[DAMphyne]

Are we supposed to post pictures representing our entries?

[Rodreguez]

A lone tree!

[Vetteography]

Are we supposed to post pictures representing our entries?

If you like!

I will even start off


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3004/2629422090_36a0dd16c6_o.jpg
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3004/2629422090_4d94b68969.jpg?v=0)

[monochrome]

See avatar for number one.

[bbqKing]

selective color

[h0rde]

selective color
amen! done to DEATH!

[Nick Pro]

fisheyes

[gjl711]

Kid portrait

[BearSummer]

So lets just see where we are...

1 - Duck
2 - Silky water
3 - your model-wife in field of flowers (oh sorry - thats just Bryan Peterson)
4. Long exposure of automotive taillights
5. Lone generic flower on a blurred background. (Rain/dew drop optional)

6, Sunrise....sunset.
7, yellow bird on the feeder
8, picture of ones self taking a picture of ones self in the mirror.
9, Lone Tree
10, Selective colour
11, fisheyes
12, Kid portrait

and now #13

13, startrails
14, panoramas

BearSummer

[Darsk47]

Family in front of Christmas tree - slower s/s so lights on tree twinkle

[WaltA]

16 - Shot of the Grand Canyon through a dirty airplane window from 30,000 feet.

[pjfrad]

17 - Clouds from an plane window

[cito17]

18. Shot taken from airplane window that includes plane's wing
19. Shot of homeless man w/ head down at a subway station. :p
20. HDR!

[luigis]

21. An old door / window
22. Somebody jumping
23. Panning a car
24. Light painting with a flashlight or led

[cito17]

25. Old, abandoned building
26. Old, abandoned vehicle

[FlyingPhotog]

27. Place setting with nothing on the plate...

[yogestee]

"Mirror mirror on the wall, I took a picture, hasn't all?" LOL

The old picture of ones self taking a picture of ones self in the mirror.

And come to think of it, maybe a mirror in the camera store would help them sell more high end pro-line camera's if the sales person could tell the customer,

"Hey you really look great behind that Canon EOS 1DS Mark III! Just step over to the mirror and look at how good that camera will make you look when you are using it!"

Yes, I have taken a mirror self portrait too! LOL

",,but will the camera make my butt look big"??

[WaltA]

",,but will the camera make my butt look big"??

Use PhotoShop ;)

[Darsk47]

28. a B&W of your friend smoking a cigarette with a long ash and smoke encircling his head.

[Flo]

Rusty nail in a post
Babred wire
Insect on a flower

Flower in a vase
weddings rings on the Bilbe...Mind you, lol.all of the above previously posted( in this thread) are some fabulous photos:D

[Canadian Techdiver]

geez. I haven't even done all these yet and you guys are bored of them already.

this leaves me nothing new and creative to shoot. :)

[FlyingPhotog]

17 - Clouds from an plane window

I resemble this...

http://www.pbase.com/flyingphotog/image/99560618

;)

[tonylong]

17. Your cute cat
18. Your cute dog

[cosworth]

29. shot of the brooklyn bridge in B&W.

[mattograph]

30. Short exposure of a waterfall --"Look, I can freeze water drops"
31. Long silky exposure of a waterfall
32. A drop of water hitting a pool (ripples required!)

[cosworth]

33. artsy shot of a homeless person contrasted against wealth

(I specialize in these apparently)

[mattograph]

34. Natural light portrait of child at the window (not too much stock value, unless scott kelby's got a new book in the works -- he'd buy it!)

[johnz]

35. A pier ( long or short will do, shot preferably from the center of the pier. Points for shooting from a low angle and combining this with the silky water effect. )

[WaltA]

To Jason's point, just because you specialize in "boring stock images" doesn't mean you can't be successful. Apparently, theres a market for everything.

[DAMphyne]

Unusual Happenings in the Neighborhood:eek:

[superstes]

Other Photog's, seems a popular one.

[LW Dail]

Child in Field of Flowers (or pet, spouse, other loved one)

Moon

Long street with building at the end

Personal Car/truck against sunset

Seagulls (solo on beach, in flight, chasing thrown bread)

[yogestee]

Plastic looking models with plastic t*#@ shot in a studio..

[saravrose]

way too much fun lets see how many of these I have... god I hate to be a cliche'... but you might as well own up to it.

ducks. the only one I have by the way.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/saravrose/CopyofIMG_6671.jpg

picture of somebody taking a picture..(I have a ton of these)..

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/saravrose/IMG_5371.jpg

cute puppy... (my cousins mastiff)
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/saravrose/IMG_8375.jpg

did we mention train tracks?... if we didn't we should have.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/saravrose/IMG_5413.jpg

portrait in front of the christmas tree

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/saravrose/IMG_0335.jpg

pier

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/saravrose/oceanbeach3-23136-1.jpg

I know I have more but now i'm bored... with myself.

[kevin_c]

",,but will the camera make my butt look big"??

No, it's all that beer and chocolate that does that :-)

[kevin_c]

How about some 'wonky' car shots

[GilesGuthrie]

How about some 'wonky' car shots

Fisheye from the front bumper corner you mean?

[WaltA]

,, Or F1 cars taken on an angle

[monochrome]

HDR of a bridge...

[bbqKing]

fireworks

[Miyagi-san]

A line of batteries
Remote control

[zso]

Picture of an apple on a white background

Picture of a single flower (preferrably a rose)

Picture of a butterfly

Picture of your pet

Picture of Christmas Lights

[yogestee]

Lens test chart..

[oaktree]

Every national monument or recognizable tourist building/bridge/tree/beach from the exact same location that 99% of the tourists shoot from.

[monochrome]

Every national monument or recognizable tourist building/bridge/tree/beach from the exact same location that 99% of the tourists shoot from.
Like Horseshoe Bend?

[mattograph]

Coed holding an ipod, high key lighting........

[bdiphoto]

tilted camera head shot

[mattograph]

Hey, its back.....

Disney Castle. Extra credit for a night shot.

[cito17]

Lens boxes. :p

[birdfromboat]

lighthouse, in high noon daylight, from the parkinglot.
High school football jubilation shot

[Tdragone]

Like Horseshoe Bend?

Ouch! It WAS new to me!

my contributions:
Bird on an electrical line with a too-short lens
Using your new nifty fifty @ 1.8 at a car show to use your new found depth of field
closeup of a grasshopper

[S-S]

the half-empty bottle of alcoholic beverage in poor lighting you have been drinking right before you suddenly decide it has great beauty and will make a fantastic photo... (sorry i dont have a pic to share, ive just seen a LOT of them)

picture of a macro 'landscape' trying to trick people into thinking it is a full-size scene

picture of oneself in a mirror with face mostly obscured by camera and one eye looking intense

picture of all your gear taken with the world's crappiest cellphone camera because you cant bear to leave anything out of the photo

[tonylong]

A picture obviously organized to demonstrate "the rule of thirds" (or any other "rule") without any real compositional meaning or impact

[johnz]

Coed holding an ipod, high key lighting........

This was about boring stock images, Coeds are hot - with or without an ipod! :)

[S-S]

a photo of the tv screen (CRT) trying not to get the black band across it from the low refresh rate

[Trainboy]

Piano keys with low depth of field...
Flower macros
Lightning shots
...My entire flickr gallery.
Train catagory: Morant's Curve.