Caption Gallery suggestion

Perhaps APUG should have a Caption Gallery where people post images without titles and others can suggest possible captions? I have probably put this in the wrong forum.

In my opinion if you have to caption your pictures then they don't have enough impact on their own in most cases.

Sometimes a description works to put things in context but cutesy captions suck.

If you take a portrait of Mr Smith, do you not caption or title it as Mr Smith?

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Originally Posted by cliveh

If you take a portrait of Mr Smith, do you not caption or title it as Mr Smith?

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I prefer 'Working Man'.

huh

i thought the standard gallery was the caption gallery
i have been adding my own captions for years ...

Then I guess this means no.

I could see it being interesting and somewhat funny.

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Originally Posted by cliveh

If you take a portrait of Mr Smith, do you not caption or title it as Mr Smith?

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I don't title or caption anything.

I can think of doing something like that if the photograph was a snap shot or meant to be funny - as in jokes. But many of us are photographers shooting and doing our best to express ourselves. I don't want someone else titling my work. If I left it untitled, that's because I want each person to have their own interpretation - not title it for me. If I wanted to guide the viewer in certain way as to what I meant, then I'll title it minimally. My image should say the rest.

I did ask a group at one time to help me title my work to convey what I wanted to say concisely. That's a bit different, too.

If your pictures need captions and have no meaning without them, they've failed.