For me, nilla-wafers response was spot on. As a portraiture and street photographer, I use different methods for my 2 genres. In portraiture I usually skip out on the caption, there usually aren't t0o many things to say about the picture, that the picture doesn't say itself. And for street photography, I typically will feel in some type of caption just to give the viewers a better perspective of what I witnessed during that moment. Now this isn't the case for all photos, sometimes I do enjoy giving my audience a bit of a mystery, but for the most part, I'm sharing my experience.

Many would say my process was implemented because the majority of my photos are bad. The ones I take aren't telling a story themselves so I'm creating dialogue to help make them interesting. I think this is why the idea of putting meaningful or behind the scene content on social media is frowned upon. Many of the greats or current street photographers will either title their photos or just display the location and time they were taken. And although I respect their art I feel as though they are missing out on an important part of the uploading process. Perspective is everything, and by not adding a caption the viewer can look at your photo and become confused, turned off, or even offended.

A prime example is a photo I recently captured during my trip to Chicago. An older lady was walking by struggling to carry her luggage. I took the photo of her because it was an interesting composition to me, yet I debated on uploading it because I didn't want any backlash from my Instagram community. I wasn't picking on her, or showing that she was incapable or handicap, in fact, I was doing the exact opposite. But I could see how certain people could view my image with the wrong idea. I wanted to show that she was strong, independent and determined to get to her destination. In order to make this vision apparent to the viewer, a caption was needed.

I used "You don't need anybody else in this world" because I felt like everyone could relate to that. Especially my followers that are in the same age demographic as I am. For the most part, we are all trying to find ourselves, we're in a big world full of people who seem to get it. Yet we don't. I felt this caption helped give the image a specific emotion. It made everyone who looked at it feel the same way. Of course, I'm just assuming this but it's something I truly believe.

Another prime example is of the gentlemen sleeping in a coffee shop. While in Chicago I had no place to stay during my visit, so I spent the majority of my nights in a 24-hour coffee shop. Due to my surprise so did many others, it was an interesting sight to see. People constantly ordering double shots of espresso, some people slapping themselves to stay up. It was filled with emotion, I felt like I had to document the moment somehow. On the way out I passed by a window and saw the gentlemen sleeping, with his coffee right in front of him and a bright light shining down. When I captured the photo and uploaded on my site with the caption "Chicago, 2015" a few people gave me trouble for taking pictures of the homeless... This guy wasn't homeless, he was tired, but because of a missing caption they were misled. I later uploaded it to Instagram with the caption "Caffeine Failure" and it was well recepted.