{"id":810,"date":"2004-05-17T09:05:17","date_gmt":"2004-05-17T09:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=810"},"modified":"2004-05-17T09:05:17","modified_gmt":"2004-05-17T09:05:17","slug":"talking-captions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/05\/talking-captions\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking captions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A thread at the Visual Editors board muses on the best way to <a href=\"http:\/\/robb.kidvibe.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?t=217\">write a photo caption<\/a> (I know, some of you call them cutlines).   I liked this bit of advice.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBack in photo-j school I was taught a very simple but effective formula for writing cutlines. Explain the 5 W&#8217;s &#8211; when, where, what, etc., then follow it up with one interesting fact.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nFor example: Barry Bonds hits his 711th homerun in San Diego last night. He&#8217;s hit 3 homeruns in 4 games this week.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nSimple, short&#8230; yet informative.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nBesides, I hear that captions are the third most read\/viewed elements on the page, just behind photos and headlines. You must respect that and be careful not to cheat readers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And this note to designers: Look at your photos and ask yourself how many words it&#8217;ll take to name everybody in the picture &#8212; then look at the lengths of their names. Estimate how how much room that&#8217;ll take, then give twice that much space to actually write something meaningful in the caption.  There&#8217;s  nothing like having to ID four people and the designer leaving only enough room for two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thread at the Visual Editors board muses on the best way to write a photo caption (I know, some of you call them cutlines). I liked this bit of advice. Back in photo-j school I was taught a very&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/05\/talking-captions\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}