How to make a caption in News Photograph

  Sometimes, making caption for some people is so difficult. But some photographer from Antara News Agency give me tips how to make caption. Check this out.

  Caption is words that are printed underneath a picture, cartoon, etc. That explain or describe it. [Oxford University Press]
 
  Caption is the explanatory comment or designation accompanying a pictorial illustration [Merriam-Webster]

  Roland Barthes in 1977 said
  "frequently, it is the caption select one out of many possible meanings from the image and anchors it with words."
 

  Caption only consist two sentences.

First sentence describes the photograph include who, what, where, when, how, and why. In spot news photos always in present tense.       

 Workers relax on a 7.41-meter-high (24.3-feet-high) giant chair in front of a furniture factory in the Siberian city of Abakan, some 410 km (255 miles) south of Krasnoyarsk, July 8, 2011. The chair has been certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest chair in Russia.
REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin

  Example : Workers relax on a 7.41-meter-high (24.3-feet-high) giant chair in front of a furniture factory in the Siberian city of Abakan, some 410 km (255 miles) south of Krasnoyarsk, July 8, 2011.

  Second sentence desribes the event. If sport photos, second sentence tells the result (win/lose or final score). If politics photos, second sentence tells what the meeting discussed. And if entertainment photos tell wheter it is part of a bigger events.
 
  Example : The chair has been certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest chair in Russia.