Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Photography major - What is a life photo?

What is a life photo?

Life photos originated in Europe. Photographers find that people's connotation and characteristics can be fully expressed through angles, light, expressions, clothes, makeup, background and other techniques, so as to cover up shortcomings and achieve certain beautification effect.

Literally, photos close to life are photos when eating, walking, reading and writing. It is not a photo that is not a mainstream art photo like a big photo.

Extended data:

Madame Curie invented the X-ray machine and experimented with her own hands, so that she could clearly capture the bones in her hands. Because of frequent X-rays, she finally got bone cancer, which was first used for research, and later developed into a camera, becoming the new favorite of dignitaries and gradually replacing portraits. Because of people's desire to pursue beautiful things, they are not satisfied with simply sitting on portraits. For the sake of beauty, they began to pose in front of the camera. Later, it was used in war and became a tool for searching and preserving evidence.

The camera was introduced to China in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it is an old-fashioned clumsy pinhole black-and-white camera. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, seagull camera was the leader of domestic cameras in the 1960s and 1970s.

After the reform and opening up in the 1980s, a large number of foreign technologies flooded into the market, which laid a solid foundation for on-site photography. During this period, life photography began to rise, and the use of wide-angle, far-angle and near-angle lenses with filters greatly improved the camera's function.

Nowadays, personal photos, children's photos, wedding photos, natural photos and so on can all reflect the advantages of modern cameras, and the popularity of computers has also added a powerful tool for post-processing of live photos.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-life photos