Just as realistic photographers in the 1960s sometimes sought to bring the effects of the salon to their pictures, so salon photographers sometimes worked in realism. K'ung Chia, doyen of the salon, is an example.
但拍慣了「沙龍」情調的攝影家們，有時也會嘗試拍些寫實照，就像寫實攝影家有時也難免「畫意抒情」一般。