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What's the difference between commercial photography and ordinary photos?

Commercial photography, as its name implies, refers to photography activities for commercial purposes. In a broad sense, it includes the production of all images used to sell goods, write events or introduce books, while in a narrow sense, commercial photography usually refers to advertising photography, not only because advertising photography plays an important role in it, but also because of its natural and strong commercial color.

At present, the common commercial photography has been divided into fine categories, such as full-time car photographers, people photographers, digital product photographers, cosmetics photographers and so on. , is an indispensable part of the fashion field.

Portrait, the original meaning in Chinese is to draw portraits of people, which is the traditional name of figure painting in China. Painting a portrait requires simplicity, so it is called a portrait. Nowadays, art photography is commonly known as art photo album. "Portrait" in China's ancient painting theory refers to "writing the truth of things", that is to say, when painting, it is necessary to show the true face of objects, and both landscape painting and figure painting should reach the "true" painting realm.

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