Back in the film days, it seemed all amateurs loved taking pictures of wrinkled old men's faces, columns of smoke and sunsets on the shore. I'm still seeing lots of sunsets, but it seems amateurs are hardly interested in old men. What other subjects besides sunsets are still drawing lots of amateurs?
deep blue2
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Self portraits making duck faces with the camera held at arm's length
Converse trainers
Flowers
Writing on hands
Overprocessed anything
Ara57
I think a distinction should be made between amateur and beginner.
For beginners, especially teens:
Self portraits.
Anything shot from a few inches away, but scraps of paper with writing seem popular. I guess that's deep. Also adding some angst-ridden obscure song lyrics or poetry is very fashionable.
That's OK. In the 60's, almost everything I drew was hippie inspired, or Peter Max! Every generation has its trendy stuff that the old folks just don't get.
Anonymous
Many; for not telling all. Sunsets use to be boring, specially in black and white; not a rule of thumd though. Old are just old. But I doubt all amateurs love these two subjects; even more, they don't
Never is late; all of you are describing amateurs as teenagers posting snapshops for facebook, but some of the greatest photographers were amateurs.
Anonymous
Flowers, themselves, bad photos of their pets, self-portraits of them looking sad in a corner (or a friend doing it), shoes, book pages, basically anything random but shows no creativity in creating it.
Anonymous
"Every hot girl who can aim a camera thinks she's a photographer. Oooooooh, you took a black-and-white picture of a lawn chair and its shadow and developed it at Save-On. You must be so brooding and deep." -- Stewie Griffin.
Also pets.