What is a life photo and how to take it?

Life photos are photos close to real life. Literally, it is a photo when eating, walking, reading and writing. It's real, unpretentious, not like an identity photo or a photo in the form of a photo sticker.

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

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 life photography. Life photography began to rise in this period. The use of wide-angle, far-angle and near-angle lenses and filters greatly improves the function of the camera. Nowadays, personal photos, children's photos, wedding photos, natural photos and so on can all reflect the advantages of modern cameras.

How to take photos of daily life

Regardless of preparation, control and light, encouraging your subject to do something he naturally wants to do can often take the most natural photos.

Photos like this don't seem to have any technical content, and I don't mean to criticize this. This is really an artistic, spontaneous and natural idea, a moment captured from many moments without obvious interference from photographers. No posturing, no polishing, no posing, at least not on your face.

But of course, it contains technology, which is as necessary as posing a portrait. The difference lies in the different technologies needed, such as production, organization, time arrangement, response and so on. These are all understated in the picture, and the result seems to be nothing deliberately complicated. The characters in the picture just appeared in this position, showing some expressions and making some gestures, and the camera just took a picture.

This may be the case. In other words, the photographer can easily set the dynamic relationship in the scene, and then retreat behind the scenes and observe it from one angle, which can more or less increase the naturalness of the picture. The key to all this is to have full confidence in your ability to compose music quickly and concentrate, which can be improved through practice.

Quickly estimate the general environment according to the lighting and background, from now on. How long can they last like this? Is it suitable? If not, consider moving, especially when your subject is going to move around. Check the camera settings: sensitivity, white balance, shutter speed and aperture.