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Captions - How important ?

  • 13-05-2008 11:30am
    #1
    Muineach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 575 ✭✭✭


    hi all,

    I was coming up some captions for some of my photo's for flickr and competitions, then I started to think how important is a "good" caption ?

    Is a "good" caption something to make the image stick in someone's head or is it irrelevant ?

    An example would this photo, which I thought it was just a standard shot, nothing special about it, but when I added the caption "Sexy Legs", it gets a laugh and won a prize in the O'Briens photo competition.

    So any opinions ?

    Sexy Legs

    1432094081_4cbcbf9bd2.jpg


Comments

  • #2
    Borderfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,263 ✭✭✭✭Borderfox


    I think they are very important and in your case worthwhile too :)


  • #3
    Dragan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    Well i have wanted to be a writer all my life and that has seeped over into my photography in that i normally seem to be trying to tell a story with the shot....which i carry on into the name.

    In my opinion, how you name a shot can completely change the message people will take from it.


  • #4
    trooney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭trooney


    I really think it doesn't mean an awful lot either way to be honest. One day I'll look at a shot and think "A" would be a great name for it. Another day "Z". People don't always see the image you're trying to paint through the use of a particular label. Captions are fickle and throwaway, IMO.


  • #5
    Eirebear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Eirebear


    I think it depends on the shot.
    In the case you have given it works perfectly and becomes very important because it forces you to look at the picture the way you want it to be seen.

    Good captions are important, poor captions are not.


  • #6
    Hugh_C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,852 ✭✭✭Hugh_C


    more important for competitions than for flickr because I think people's first impressions are from the thumbnail, not the title.

    Having said that, Reginald Perrin's mother-in-law springs to mind ...


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  • #7
    trooney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭trooney


    Hugh_C wrote: »
    more important for competitions than for flickr because I think people's first impressions are from the thumbnail, not the title.

    Having said that, Reginald Perrin's mother-in-law springs to mind ...

    I didn't get where I am today by anthropomorphising lumbering aquatic mammals...


  • #8
    YogiBear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 817 ✭✭✭YogiBear


    It depends on the shot imo. I want to do a shot entitled "Portrait of Uhde" (http://knowledgenews.net/images/picasso_uhde.jpg) and distort a photo of my ex because the Picassco original reminds me of him. I also want to do one entitled "Narcissus" (Greek mythology)...
    Those are 2 projects I've set myself in the last few days.
    In shots like "sexy legs" above too, I think it adds humour & interest.
    Sometimes titles are pointless though, I am guilty of giving titles just for the sake of it at times but again I think it just depends on the shot.


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