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[a] Most captions draw attention to something in the image that is not obvious, such as its relevance to the text. A caption may be a few words or several sentences. Writing good captions takes effort; along with the lead and section headings, captions are the most commonly read words in an article, so they should be succinct and informative.
Caption examples. Photo captions, also known as cutlines, are a few lines of text used to explain and elaborate on published photographs.In some cases captions and cutlines are distinguished, where the caption is a short (usually one-line) title/explanation for the photo, while the cutline is a longer, prose block under the caption, generally describing the photograph, giving context, or ...
A photographic essay or photo-essay for short is a form of visual storytelling, a way to present a narrative through a series of images. A photo essay delivers a story using a series of photographs and brings the viewer along a narrative journey. [1] Examples of photo essays include: A web page or portion of a web site.
Often the caption or article will describe the image adequately, and where this is the case you can write alt=caption or alt=see adjacent text. If additional alt text is added, it should be a succinct description that complies with the content policies; see WP:ALT for more information.
It's hard to write a full sentence caption that doesn't fulfill at least one other goal of a good caption, and with that in mind, a full sentence is a good place to start. Keep in mind that captions are wiki text just like the articles - they're always subject to improvement! -- ke4roh 19:24, Aug 24, 2004 (UTC)
Still, those magazines taught journalism much about the photographic essay and the power of still images. [31] However, since the late 1970s, photojournalism and documentary photography have increasingly been accorded a place in art galleries alongside fine art photography.
The empty string, if there is an explicitly requested Caption and the image type has a visible caption. The image file name if there is no explicitly requested Alt or Caption. This is never a satisfactory option. It is possible to specify the link title text only for images with no visible caption (as described above).
A caption is a short descriptive or explanatory text, usually one or two sentences long, which accompanies a photograph, picture, map, graph, pictorial illustration, figure, table or some other form of graphic content contained in a book or in a newspaper or magazine article.