Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Photo Captions and Titles...
From: John Straus <Mail@SlideOne.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 16:37:21 -0600

on 1/22/02 3:44 PM, B. D. Colen at bdcolen@earthlink.net wrote:

> Steve - Nice group of images....Week4 is a hoot. BUT - The photo does not
> have anything to do with the Mona Lisa. I know, that's what they were
> looking at. You know that. They know that. No one who looks at the photo
> knows that.
> 
> Now to me, the photo stands on its own,speaks for itself, needs no
> introduction. ;-) But if you wanted us to know that that was a photo of
> people looking at Moana, you needed to either get a piece of Moana (cQ) in
> the photo, get a "This Way To La Mona Lisa" sign in the photo, or something
> similar.
> 
> All of which leads me to make a suggestion - NO MORE PAW CAPTIONS. Let's let
> the photos stand on their own. Let everyone judge them for what they show,
> not what the shooter thinks they show.

I do think a photo should be titled IF you can think of something that
relates well to the shot it also help ID the phot if your discussing it... I
don't mind not titling shots as well... Coin toss...

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John 
Chicago, IL 
http://SlideOne.com
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