Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Photography major - What is taking pictures? What do you mean by taking pictures?

What is taking pictures? What do you mean by taking pictures?

1, taking photos is now art photography, commonly known as art photo album.

2. Portrait, the original meaning in Chinese is to draw portraits of people, which is the traditional name of figure painting in China. Painting and writing a portrait as if it requires simplicity in form and spirit is called "portrait" Du Fu's poem "Dan Qing presents General Cao": "The general is good at painting to cover the gods, and what he shows is not just the horse, but the life of a good man." .

Today's popular "photos" are borrowed from Japanese. As we all know, the Japanese still use 1850 "Chinese characters for use" and a large number of "Chinese words" composed of these words. Many of these "Chinese words" already have the meanings given by the Japanese. In Japanese, "photo" has two meanings. One is "photography" and the other is "photos".