PHOTO 37: Portrait Photography

Caption/Narrative Caption is an important part of journalism and documentary photography.  Captions must be accurate and informative. In fact, most readers tend to look at the photos, and then the captions, in a story before they decide whether they want to read the story itself.  Use the following points to help write a caption that will intrigue the reader enough to read the story. http://www.nwscholasticpress.org/how-to-write-a-compelling-article-that-gets-the-readers-attention/ https://www.dailywritingtips.com/10-tips-about-how-to-write-a-caption/ https://ijnet.org/en/resource/writing-photo-captions Tips • The photo and the caption should complement each other. Together they should tell the story. They should avoid repeating each other. A caption should help explain the what, when, and where. But the photo should provoke an emotional reaction. • The newspaper industry called captions, “cutlines." • National Geographic photo captions are great examp