image hover with text

hi all,

i am trying to build boxed image hover boxes with text (title and sub title under the image)
in your demo page, the first photo is what i am looking to achieve.
i have tried a number of things but i have not succeeded. the text is to far from the photo and the images generated are too small
could you please help? what should i use in order the get this result
this is a link to what i able to do so far