Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Let us leave it to someone who understood imagery (-: "And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name." - A Midsummer Nights Dream That is what a good photograph with a descriptive caption does! Presentation matters, it can increase or impair the impact of a photograph. Cheers Jayanand On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:08 AM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote: > I think we best enter into this discussion > the difference between > caption > and > title > > a captions serves to add relevant and/or useful (hopefully) information > a title serves to "name" the image > > very different purposes > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > On Dec 28, 2009, at 6:54 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >>> My two pennorth, >>> >>> I think it all depends on what the pictures show - I can't really >>> imagine one of my (now quite numerous) town/city tours without captions >>> showing where all the shots were taken. >>> >>> The same applies to the captions of Doug Herr's bird shots telling us >>> what they are (paticularly when the Latin names are used so I can look >>> up what they are called over here in Germany - who knows when they might >>> turn up in a translation :-) ) >>> >>> Cheers >>> Douglas >> >> >> Yes a simple dry description. ?A couple of words. >> I see a lot of couple of words with number or letter. >> >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >