On Feb 16, 2007, at 10:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> So am I using titles or captions? >> >> http://www.jfwaf.com/PAW/ > > "San Francisco Sunset" is a caption, because it merely identifies. > "An Evening at Home" is a title, because it introduces a theme > that's not necessarily native to the work. > Both are fine in my opinion. > > I believe some photos need neither title or cpation. Some work > better with one or the other.
Looking at some of the definitions of these words in the OED: caption a title or brief explanation appended to an article, illustration, cartoon, or poster. title the name of a book, composition, or other artistic work, e.g.: the author and title of the book. So a caption can be a title, but a title does not necessarily have to be a caption. In the absence of explanatory or descriptive caption, whatever you label the work *is* its title. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
