P3D Titles (was: Cleveland Review)

["Dr. George A. Themelis" <DrT-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Dottle, takes a break from his work at revolutionizing the art of 
stereo photography, and writes:

>My final shot entitled "On the roof", is a great action shot of Aaron
>poised to jump as high as he can to see something on the rooftop of the
>house. A judge remarked, "I need to see more.....what is he looking at?"
>"I don't know" I thought, "Maybe that is why he wants to jump up and
>see....he is as curious as you are!" The judge proceeded to explain why
>the unknowns detracted from the photograph.

In my recollection, the judge started his comments like this:  "This is 
one case where the title actually hurts the image."  I tend to agree.
The kid was not on the roof.  There was no roof around.  Why is the slide
titled "On the roof"?  If there is something happening on the roof and
the kid wants to see it, we want to see it too!  What we saw in the
picture was a kid in the right side of the picture, with his elbow
through the stereo window (very effective!) ready to leap.  I think
the roof should not have been in the title.

Anyway, I wonder what other clubs do regarding titles.  Billy Turner
told us that reading the title is a mistake.  All that counts is the
image.  But the title is part of the package.  Can give some information
to supplement the image.  Can inject humor.  (Example from last night:
Ron Fross' "One too many flashes".)  

Should we leave the title out when projecting slides for competitions?
What do PSA Exhibition judgings do?

George Themelis


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