You can take photos during the Ghost Festival.

The Hungry Ghost Festival, a festival held during the seventh half of the seventh month to worship ancestors, is also known as the Stone Drum Festival, Ghost Festival, Guzhai Festival and Local Officials’ Festival. The main festival customs include ancestor worship, river lanterns, soul worship, burning paper ingots, etc. According to folk customs, worshiping ancestors, offering sacrifices such as new rice, and announcing autumn to ancestors are traditional cultural festivals to commemorate ancestors. The core of culture is respect for ancestors and filial piety. There is nothing wrong with taking photos on the Hungry Ghost Festival. You can take photos.

July is an auspicious month and also a month of filial piety. July Half is a folk festival in early autumn to celebrate the harvest and reward the earth. Some crops have matured, so people have the custom of worshiping their ancestors, offering sacrifices such as new rice, and reporting autumn harvests to their ancestors.

Customs in various places during the Ghost Festival:

Hebei: Botou City and Nanpi County carry fruits, preserved meat, wine, money, etc. to their ancestors' graves on July 15th to pay homage to their ancestors. And holding the grain to the field stalks is called "recommending new things". During the Ghost Festival in Guangping County, people worship their ancestors with fresh food, and prepare fruits, vegetables, and steamed sheep to give to their grandchildren, which is called "giving sheep." On the 15th day of the seventh lunar month in Qinghe County, people visit the graves to offer sacrifices and present steamed noodle sheep to their daughters.

Shanxi: Scholars in Yonghe County worship Kuixing on this day. Shepherds in Changzi County slaughter sheep to compete with the gods on the Hungry Ghost Festival. According to folklore, this can increase sheep production. Meats were also given to relatives. Those who were poor and had no sheep would be replaced by steamed noodles in the shape of sheep. Farmers in Yangcheng County make wheat scraps into the shapes of cats, tigers and grains and offer sacrifices in the fields, which is called "Xingtian". During the Ghost Festival in Mayi County, people make wheat noodles into the shapes of children, named "moodle people", and give them to each other's relatives' children. Farmers in Xin County hang five-color paper on field stalks during the Ghost Festival.

The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Hungry Ghost Festival