Naming your images on the gallery

VinceInMT

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A photo I shot on the spur of the moment in July ‘81 is one I was quite happy with due to getting reasonably accurate flesh tones when I printed it. I was printing on Kodak paper and using drop in color filters in my Beseler enlarger. When I showed it to different people, some found it offensive for some reason so when I posted it to the gallery here, I gave it a title.

https://www.photrio.com/forum/media/sunscreen-anyone.67581/
 

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If someone is offended by this photograph, they should look inward, not outward...

Titles can steer the viewer toward unexpected interpretations, but that's entirely the photographer's prerogative and right.

Tempest in a teapot...
 
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Sirius Glass

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Some choose to name photographs. I do not often, but have. I do not have a strong feeling or need to. If some choose to do that, they are welcome to the task, I just have more compelling things going on in my life. Pax and enjoy live your way.
 

DREW WILEY

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If you really want to get sick to your stomach, go to Fatali's website and read some of his overtly sugar-coated picture titles. Reminds me of the names on paint store color chips. I've always been convinced they employ demented prisoners to come up with those names, since they have nothing better to do. I even find this whole thread ridiculous. Do whatever you want; after all, they're your pictures, not someone else's.
 
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