Do great minds think alike...

Roen

.....or fools seldom differ?

I was carrying out a search for Dome Du Gouter, listed by most interesting earlier on Flickr when I noticed one of my shots was near the top of the list (fourth down). Next thing I noticed was that it wasn't actually taken by me, but by some Spanish dude.

Here's the two side by side for comparison.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/santi_rf/225217741/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/roening/170370593/in/set-72157594170504724/

Now on first appearance they look pretty much the same, but they are indeed different. Panic over.

Just wondering has anyone come up with a shot that accidentally looks like someone else's. Or is it just a simple matter of limited vantage points therefore there's going to be about 8000 similar shots out there?

Mellor

Its all vantage points really, for example I was in Kilkenny last weekend, and I seen one on John Bridge taking a photo of the castle every second time I past the bridge.

so when I took the camera out on saturday I was determined to get a different vantage point.

edit: Kilkennt Castle examples
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jjhphotos/198121437/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joecashin/2192469132/

Vet quick search to show two pics, more likely better examples considering the different crop etc

Cabaal

haha thats scary Roen,
everyone and there dog has a picture of kilkenny castle though

Chochese

I was reading the BBC sport website a last week when i came across this page.

Needless to say I was straight on to my flickr to see if it was this photo!

It's ridiculously similar, even down to the angle and the way the vapour crosses the edge of the wing. It's not my shot they fecked from my flickr, but it's mad how similar they are!

Mellor

Cabaal wrote: »

haha thats scary Roen,
everyone and there dog has a picture of kilkenny castle though

Well as kilkenny castle is famous, so it would be common, my point was related to the exact spot of taking the photos being similar. hat said, its famous to us, the OP photo spuld b a famous vista of Mt blanc. Its also on a bridge, so could suffer the same as kilkenny castle and the bridge

decsramble

It's usually down to people all taking photgraphs from the same vantage point but in yesterdays papers, the Sunday Independent sports section I think, there were photographs, on different pages, of Brian O'Driscoll tackling a Scotish player. I thought the paper was reusing the same photograph at first but then realised they were different. The two were almost identical, taken at the same instance, similar crop and size but just a slightly different angle. The two photographers must have been standing beside each other.

Roen

Well I guess it is a case of the obvious spot to take a shot from, whether it's Kilkenny or Mt. Blanc.

But that raises another question; Is the obvious spot the best spot?

I mean who's to say if you spent several hours scouring the area that you'd come up with something better? Maybe everyone gravitates to the obvious place because it's the best, not just the handiest.

Fenster

This is why (as those whom I've spoken to will know) that I avoid the Strip like the plague when it comes to photography. Every building has been shot at two hundred times from two hundred different locations, and trying to get an original photo is difficult at best.

I'm not above trying to duplicate the angle of someone else's photo, but I prefer to put my own..slant on it.