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title: "What is a Candid picture?"  
description: "What is a Candid picture?"  
author: "Satish Jain"  
published: 2018-01-03  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32402/what-is-a-candid-picture  
category: "photography"  
tags: ["photography"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is a Candid picture?

What is a Candid [picture](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1066/world-s-clearest-ufo-picture-found-after-32-years)?

## Answers

### Answer by Vishal Kesarwani

**Erich Salomon is credited as the first ever light candid photographer** he photographed the social elite in **Berlin, Germany with his Ermanox camera.**

This **photography is really special and natural one,** as in this photography object don’t have an idea from where or which angle a picture is going to be clicked.![What is a Candid picture?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/2c297834-072f-4603-b963-e3921247c920/images/d78ce8de-38bf-4f8e-a550-fa4d1d5f0c1f.png)\
**Candid pictures of any object are the most beautiful one** as it doesn’t ask to pose in different ways. Candid photography is one of the most popular genres of photography stream.![What is a Candid picture?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/2c297834-072f-4603-b963-e3921247c920/images/4b5a2e2a-8b04-4d81-9bd4-06e8193f41af.png)\
**Most of the time you may have seen in your gallery that an untimed picture looks more ardent that’s what special about candid pictures.** \
**read more about photography here: [types of photography](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/30859/what-are-the-types-of-photography)**


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