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How to Identify People in a Photo Clockwise

It is all too easy to take a picture of a group of people you met at college or on holiday and forget their names when you look at it years later. A great way to get around this problem is to write the names of everybody on the back of a real photo or in a caption for digital ones. This system of identifying people can also be used to caption yearbook, newspaper and magazine photos.

Instructions

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  Start from an obvious point towards the back of the photograph, preferably with the person top left of the picture. This is because our eyes naturally read from top left to bottom right.
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  Make a note of where the identifying started. For example, "From top left, John Smith..."
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  Go around in as good a circle as possible trying to follow how a person's natural eye line will be drawn around the picture. Clockwise, going round in a circle from left to right as the hands of a clock move, is the best way for this, as people naturally expect a photograph to be captioned in this way.
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  Make additional notes as to the location of people, as there is a good chance the group is not going to form perfectly allowing for complete clockwise identification.
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  Add the location and date the picture was taken to complete the caption or description.

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