Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/28

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Subject: [Leica] Captions
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:20:52 +0530
References: <C75EBD7C.5B1CC%mark@rabinergroup.com> <370A9312-35CE-45DB-937C-57D85F3ADEBE@mac.com>

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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Captions)
Message from imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] Captions)