Captioning Photos in Photo Mechanic

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I'm reading up on photo mechanic and all the abbreviations that are used.

Now, this may be a very stupid question (read that as this IS a stupid question) but if you caption a photo as player A tackles player B, do the papers just post them as is, or do they write their own captions?
As they can see what player A is doing to player B.....that sounds a bit wrong lol.
 
"Slaps self in face"
I did say it was stupid, they'd probably need to know who was tackling who as they probably don't know every player and all 92 league clubs and God knows how many non-league clubs.........
Now where's that pointy hat with the D on it?
 
Yes you put the players names in. Most of the time they write their own caption but you need to tell them what is happening e.g. Player scores his sides first goal.
 
Lol,

I still can't believe I wrote this post!

In my defence it was post late shift and getting in at 0500!!

The defence rests, m'lud!
 
I was once interviewed for a job on the Live Sports Desk at action images (didn't get it though), but they obviously explained to me what the job entailed. On the desk you were expected to receive images with no information at all about them and work out as fast as possible who the people in the shot were, what the event was and what was happening. I guess it was up to you to be aware of what events were going on during your shift etc. For part of the interview I was given a folder with about 30 images in and no information. There was a range of sports from football to cricket to swimming to everything. I had to tell the interviewer who was in the image and what the event was. I did reasonably well, I got most of the football, rugby, cricket, golf and tennis ones, but there were some lower league football ones I didn't have a clue on and swimming I had no idea. Some of them were very famous, ie Rooney, Murray etc but some were very hard. Felt like a right plonker saying, erm I don't know who that League 2 footballer is I'm afraid. So yea, I don't know if they have change their methods these days but their desk workers needed an encyclopaedic knowledge of all sports.

They told me that the gave the job to someone who had already worked on a sports desk, but in hind sight I'm actually glad I didn't end up there as I'd probably have spent a lot less time shooting sports which in reality is why I wanted to get a foot in the door there to start with, also I would have had to move to London from lovely Yorkshire!
 
Very interesting that.
 
gibtheo said:
I was once interviewed for a job on the Live Sports Desk at action images (didn't get it though), but they obviously explained to me what the job entailed. On the desk you were expected to receive images with no information at all about them and work out as fast as possible who the people in the shot were, what the event was and what was happening. I guess it was up to you to be aware of what events were going on during your shift etc. For part of the interview I was given a folder with about 30 images in and no information. There was a range of sports from football to cricket to swimming to everything. I had to tell the interviewer who was in the image and what the event was. I did reasonably well, I got most of the football, rugby, cricket, golf and tennis ones, but there were some lower league football ones I didn't have a clue on and swimming I had no idea. Some of them were very famous, ie Rooney, Murray etc but some were very hard. Felt like a right plonker saying, erm I don't know who that League 2 footballer is I'm afraid. So yea, I don't know if they have change their methods these days but their desk workers needed an encyclopaedic knowledge of all sports.

They told me that the gave the job to someone who had already worked on a sports desk, but in hind sight I'm actually glad I didn't end up there as I'd probably have spent a lot less time shooting sports which in reality is why I wanted to get a foot in the door there to start with, also I would have had to move to London from lovely Yorkshire!
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To have that sort of knowledge Action Images would have to pay a good wage and I would imagine there would be more than one person doing it.I often wonder how much Action Images charge to supply the media with images.It cannot be cheap and it must be way,way over what a Freelance would do it for. If all the Agencies operate such a system it must be costing the media industry a lot.
 
I suppose if you're job is to caption sports photographs then you might be expected to have a very good knowledge of sport.

But in my job which Ive been doing 20 years I don't know every disease/condition known to man!

Maybe they'd written the job description and assessment as they had someone in mind?
 
shapeshifter said:
To have that sort of knowledge Action Images would have to pay a good wage and I would imagine there would be more than one person doing it.I often wonder how much Action Images charge to supply the media with images.It cannot be cheap and it must be way,way over what a Freelance would do it for. If all the Agencies operate such a system it must be costing the media industry a lot.
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No I don't think it works like that.

AI like Getty probably have contracts with the major media outlets. So the media pays a set fee per month but has access to all their images.
 
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