Chapter 8: Photo Editing & Captioning
Here is an image I (Judy) made of President Obama campaigning for Michigan's governor Gretchen Witmer showing the Photo Mechanic's interface for adding and editing an image's metadata which includes writing captions, adding keywords and making sure your copyright information is seamlessly attached as you ingest your images into the software to select and sequence them. (Screenshot by Judy Walgren)
RESOURCES + FURTHER READING
- For seamless selection and sequencing of a large body of work many photojournalists use Camera Bits' Photo Mechanic software.
- Jeremy Bassetti created this excellent video, Sequencing a Photobook or a Zine: Some Considerations and Approaches.
- Photo editor extraordinaire Mike Davis's book, Creating Visual Narratives through Photography: A Fresh Approach to Making a Living as a Photographer is full of excellent advice, workflow suggestions and inspiring anecdotes.
- Magnum Photos' The Language of Pictures: Exploring Sequencing With Mark Power
- The Multimedia Toolkit offers this simple explainer on AP Style Photo Captions.
- Wesley Verhoeve has a great Substack post, How To Sequence Your Images and Build a Narrative.