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Photo website with music references as titles-opinion wanted please

  • 18-05-2011 01:54PM
    #1
    dinneenp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,297 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    In my photography website/blog I've edited all my photo titles so that every single photo has a musical reference as it's title. Needless to say it took some time to think up titles and edit the old titles.

    A large proportion of titles are simply song titles, some are lyrics from songs and some simply band names; whichever fits the songs best and obviously mainly artists/bands that I love. Most are alternative/indie related and are relatively easy to figure out but some are more obscure

    I keep wondering if it's a waste of time, do you think that the idea is good/clever/funny or just pointless/stupid? I haven't seen any photo sites that do the same thing but I'm sure there are some out there...

    Cheers,
    Pa.


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  • #2
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    What's the purpose behind restricting yourself to song titles if the photos aren't related to music?


    I did a college photography project based on a song once and titled the photos using different lyrics from the song. I was marked down for doing it and told that even if the song has influenced the photographs it's self-indulgent to use lyrics as photo titles.


  • #3
    dinneenp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,297 ✭✭✭dinneenp


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    What's the purpose behind restricting yourself to song titles if the photos aren't related to music?


    I did a college photography project based on a song once and titled the photos using different lyrics from the song. I was marked down for doing it and told that even if the song has influenced the photographs it's self-indulgent to use lyrics as photo titles.

    Cheers for the reply.
    I don't see why it's self-indulgent at all. To me it's just putting a different angle on something, something that makes it stand out a bit and that makes it entertaining as well. The titles are still relevant.

    One could agrue that taking a photo is self indulgent. Boo to your teacher.


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