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|| SportsShooter.com: Member Message Board Appropriate cutlines or just plain wrong. Andy Bronson, Photographer Bellingham | WA | USA | Posted: 1:37 AM on 05.18.11 ->> Looking at the cutlines at the World Moustache and Beard Contest, I see the photog has added snarky comments. Got to wonder what editors are thinking when they let this go. http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/gallery/World-Beard-and-Moustache-Champi...  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (2) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Patrick Fallon, Student/Intern, Photographer Columbia | MO | USA | Posted: 1:45 AM on 05.18.11 ->> The photographer had nothing to do with the snark. Lets get the facts right eh? Search GettyImages.com for the photographer's name or click below. http://tinyurl.com/5wspjm3  This post is:  Informative (1) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Louis Lopez, Photographer Southern California | CA | USA | Posted: 3:16 AM on 05.18.11 ->> Truth usually is that outside of the basic information like who, what when and where, what appears in print as the caption is not written by the actual photographer that took the photo.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Kent Nishimura, Student/Intern, Photographer Honolulu | HI | USA | Posted: 5:00 AM on 05.18.11 ->> not sure i see the snark in the caption... maybe i cant take my eyes off of how boss that beard looks. whoa!  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Butch Miller, Photographer Lock Haven | PA | USA | Posted: 10:06 AM on 05.18.11 ->> Indeed ... all too often photo bylines indicate who captured an image ... though they do not detail who mangled, manipulated or otherwise hampered the crop, cutline and/or associated headline ... that was the responsibility/fault of the layout/design editor .... All too often over the years I have had problems with this ... I always felt there should be an addendum to bylines once the editor responsible has altered the information provided by the photographer other than normal style issues ... It is always annoying to be confronted by the subject of photos or stories when they demand to know why things appeared as they did ... and you the photographer, had no hand in how it was presented or how or why the information changed from what was provided ...  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Charley Starr, Photographer, Photo Editor Ketchikan | AK | USA | Posted: 2:30 PM on 05.18.11 ->> I have a bigger problem with "an unnamed teammate", "some participants", "A participant from Finland", "that guy" "the guy on the end"....no names?!  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Andy Bronson, Photographer Bellingham | WA | USA | Posted: 2:40 PM on 05.18.11 ->> Patrick, Right, sorry didn't check his name. Figured that somehow it failed to go through an editor. I'd be ticked off if that had been done to my photos. Just figured editors weren't allowed to do this kind of, frankly, unprofessional shit. Nice to know that editors feel they can change photog captions and make the photog look like a snarky idiot.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Chuck Liddy, Photographer Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 2:46 PM on 05.18.11 ->> Andy, I'm seriously surprised you thought a photographer with a wire service from Norway wrote those captions. It was obviously an attempt at humor by whoever posted and built the gallery. There were actually too many "American" nuances in those captions for me to ever think that some shooter from across the pond wrote that stuff. It was probably someone at the PI.  This post is:  Informative (2) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Amy Wallot, Photographer Frankfort | KY | USA | Posted: 3:53 PM on 05.18.11 ->> I have seen cutlines like this in a few galleries from reputable publications lately. I wonder if the folks putting up the pictures are trying to to be more casual, like they sometimes do on their social media sites. Has anyone had this experience at their papers? Pros? 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