Caption Gallery suggestion

[cliveh]

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.

[blansky]

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.

[cliveh]

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

[batwister]

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

I prefer 'Working Man'.

[jnanian]

huh

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

[cliveh]

Then I guess this means no.

[Stephanie Brim]

I could see it being interesting and somewhat funny.

[blansky]

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

I don't title or caption anything.

[tkamiya]

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.

[benjiboy]

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