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What does life photo mean?

Life photos are photos in life. Photographers found that people's connotation and characteristics can be fully expressed through angles, light, expressions, clothes, makeup, background and so on.

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.

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After centuries of development in chemistry and optics, the invention of pinhole camera provided a good opportunity for the appearance of the first photo in the world. 1826, the French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the world's first picture at home, entitled "Scenery outside Legolas".

This photo shows the courtyard and outhouse outside the window upstairs of his house. The shooting method is exposed on the asphalt metal plate in the pinhole camera.

A photograph of a person or thing made by exposing photosensitive paper to a photographic negative and then developing and fixing it. In the information age, many photos are preserved in digital form, and digital cameras are developing at a high speed, while traditional cameras using film are gradually decreasing.