Heliography

Heliography is identical to photography and was developed around the current period, set around the equivalent of the 1860s, although admittedly with some technologies lacking and anachronistic. Heliography is in its early days, monochrome of course, and generally of a mediocre quality. Thus painting is a more common medium through most households, but a couple of the more wealthy and more savvy households may have a couple of novelty photographs lying around. Moving images are far off, perhaps with the exception of zoetropes. Coloured photographs aren't around though a couple of people in the form of overlapped coloured plates, but again these are very primitive. In the current form, the field of heliography is attributed to Rober Chnika of Kohia, though at this point artistic heliography is blossoming.

The technology is mostly static monochrome and coloured photographs made from multiple coloured plates. Maybe some basic zoetropes. Short films would be made of stitched together photographs but pretty much experimental at this time. I don't think people would smile as photographs, despite having an impressive exposure time, were mostly reserved for stately official portraits and group helios - though smiling would definitely be commonplace in different cultures and subcultures.

Chnikagraphs