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When you write a photo caption, there are some rules that you have to follow:
Never include personal feelings. Avoid descriptive terms that interpret personal feeling, such as
beautiful, scary, sad, lovely. In captions, facts without involving personal emotion are what
should be given to readers. The feelings and emotions are for readers to decide.
REMEMBER
- The first step in writing caption is to make a title of the photo. The title of the photo may
come from the main idea of the story. The title has to reflect and confirm the information in
the photo. Captions titles play an important role in drawing readers’ attention to continue
reading both caption and the story.
- The second step in photo caption writing is giving relevant information about the photo.
Remember the pattern of 5WH-questions. Use complete sentences, write 1-2 sentence(s)
only.
- The third step is to write a photo credit. Photographers should include their photo credit in
caption. Style varies by publication.
Jill Connelly for the New York Times
Jill Connelly/ AP
AP Photo/Jill Connelly
Example:
Photo credits which are written based on RF Licence. Photo credits according to RF Licence
are written as follows ©(photographer’s name) / (source).
© Jill Connelly/ AP Photo
- Punctuation in Captions
Captions normally begin with a capital letter.
Captions should not be in italics, unless that also occurs in the main story.
All sentences and any sentences fragments in that captions should end with a
period.
Example of captions:
Officers from the Ngurah Rai Customs and Excise Office escort
51-year-old Swiss citizen Marc Andre Wenger during a press
conference at the office’s headquarters. Bali law enforcers arrested
Wenger early on Thursday at Ngurah Rai International Airport for
allegedly carrying 3.2 grams of marijuana.(JP/Zul Trio Anggono)