Captions are important as a reader
and as a writer.
As a writer you want your reader to
understand what they’re reading. You want your message to be loud and clear through
not only your writing but through your pictures.
Pictures in a story pull the readers
in. Bringing your words to life are what gets the reader interested, great
feature pictures is the hook, line and sinker.
Captions according to the AP
stylebook should follow a formula. It gives you the person in the photograph and
what’s going on, the date and location, city and state. All three of these
things are mandatory within your captions.
I think that
the captions are important for the same reasons the AP Stylebook does. As a
reader it is important to know what you’re reading and to understand why it’s
relevant for you to reading it.
What I’ve learned throughout the
captions lesson in the AP Stylebook and through my professor’s Storify lesson
on captions is that it’s the most important part of any photojournalist’s job.
I’ve learned that captions are the
most important part in every story because every story needs and requires a
photo for the story. It’s very imperative.
