Roger Hicks
Veteran
I often have to come up with titles for book/magazine captions, so I go for plain descriptions that I can remember when someone asks me about them, e.g.
Storm Light, Monsarraz
Fishermen and a rowing four
Two children
Sometimes the same title will be used twice, but obviously a qualifier is easy to add:
Two children, Easton
Two children, Himalayas
Cheers,
R.
Storm Light, Monsarraz
Fishermen and a rowing four
Two children
Sometimes the same title will be used twice, but obviously a qualifier is easy to add:
Two children, Easton
Two children, Himalayas
Cheers,
R.
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
Sometimes I think of the title before I shoot the photograph ... quite a lot actually! 
thegman
Veteran
If I had anything worth giving a title to, I'd go with Roger's style, simple and to the point. I think if I tried to come up with something imaginative, I'd end up cringing at it in a year's time.
mfogiel
Veteran
Year, proggressive film roll number, frame number.
Sparrow
Veteran
When, what, were ... and who the copyright belongs to. Like this;
sreed2006
Well-known
I write computer programs for a living. The variables, functions, and programs need to be named properly or nobody will understand at all what I was trying to do. I have embraced this aspect of the job, and get creative, leaning often to humorous, yet appropriate, naming.
I've found that the same creative urge to give names to variables, routines, and programs is very nearly the same creative urge that goes into naming pictures. I try to find the part of the picture I wish to emphasize, then come up with a title that draws attention to that.
For instance, this picture is named simply "Goo."
Goo by sreed2006, on Flickr
Sometimes, the well of creative ideas runs dry. When that happens for digital images, I just use the name of the file that the camera assigned.
I've found that the same creative urge to give names to variables, routines, and programs is very nearly the same creative urge that goes into naming pictures. I try to find the part of the picture I wish to emphasize, then come up with a title that draws attention to that.
For instance, this picture is named simply "Goo."
Goo by sreed2006, on Flickr
Sometimes, the well of creative ideas runs dry. When that happens for digital images, I just use the name of the file that the camera assigned.
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jarski
Veteran
short and simple, somehow connected to image, like earlier poster: what, where, when, who + number. e.g. New York 034 or Christmas 01.
completely computer/camera generated gibberish is not very encouraging for viewer IMO, and longer it is, worse. same with meaningless words like Untitled.
completely computer/camera generated gibberish is not very encouraging for viewer IMO, and longer it is, worse. same with meaningless words like Untitled.
Haigh
Gary Haigh
I don't like titling but the last exhibition I had the titles on a laminated sheet blu tacked to the wall. They were obvious titles too.
dazedgonebye
Veteran
If a name comes to me, I use it. Otherwise I don't.
For me, the thing is not to force it. I hate pretentious names.
For me, the thing is not to force it. I hate pretentious names.
gekopaca
French photographer
No rules.
Sometimes a title, sometimes not.
Never looking for a title; it's the title which finds me.
Always a real pleasure to be suddenly summoned by a title.
Sometimes a title, sometimes not.
Never looking for a title; it's the title which finds me.
Always a real pleasure to be suddenly summoned by a title.
bronney
Established
My flickr is my diary so I title it with what I was doing at the time. The majority of them though, I titled them as the thing that made me click the shutter at that moment. Some times, I like to title my photo as the neo-mystical ideology of the industrial struggle of the late 16th century with flowers and the dilemma of a dry peanut.
Nikonsnapper
Member
I am with Keith in that I often think of a title when I am composing the picture. I might modify it slightly. If I don't like the title after posting a picture, I can always change it.