Basics of Crime Scene Photography

***3/12/22 addendum: The assertion at 3:15 that FILM is the only suitable method for photographing a crime scene is now outdated. With the advent of much better digital photography as well as the ability to spot manipulated data, most crime scene photographers have fully transitioned to Digital photography at this time. Thank goodness that technology continues to advance and develop!
I would like to thank all my viewers for your advice and input! You rock! ****

A very simplified overview for High School Students on Forensic Crime Scene Photography

0:00 Introduction
0:11 The Basics
0:58 How many pictures should I take?
1:38 Record keeping
2:15 Equipment
3:15 Why not digital?
4:56 What should I take photos of?
5:56 The Scale

[ANGRYFSH]

Thank you so much! I'm looking into forensic photography as a future career option and this helped.

[kfung]

its so easy to take picture with a digital camera, photoshop them, print it in high resolution, and flat copy it with a film camera. I think taking digital and showing its metadata and digital log is so much more harder to fake.

[almasakic]

Thank you this is helping me prepare for my very first Forensic Technician interview! Wish me luck!

[yorkielover]

Thank you so much for this Marysusan!!! I'm starting college in august and I'm going to be taking criminal justice and this helps alot🖤

[renanhafsar]

In my opinion, the images created by digital cameras have the metadata. Once an image has been manipulated, the metadata will be changed. This ensures the originality of digital images.

[AvilioAmici]

My teacher used this for our forensics class lol

[TheShutterbug]

Most crime labs/agencies have switched to digital due to a lack of film processing services—9 yrs forensic photographer/3+yrs forensic photography instructor.

[SuperPeteJames]

Wouldn't shooting in the camera's raw format be the same as using film negatives? Unless you are having prints made with an enlarger, all negatives are digitized prior to being printed or stored as a digital file.

[michaelyagodnik]

thank you this will help me with my skillsUSA competition

[mistervacation]

Well I'll just get a picture of it. Lets see... f32... and it's dark, it's been rainin'... and uh... Oh for heaven's sake STAND BACK Suzanna! Stand back! Get out of the way! And for heaven's sake don't TOUCH anything! This is all EVIDENCE!

[davemelana]

Hello. this was a very comprehensive I like it. Can you help me with something I need to know what camera angles to use for documenting bombing/explosion scenes (post blast) but I really can't find any good sources, I really need It for my pre-finals report.

[sLOMO_]

I've been shooting and developing film for a few years and had no idea that forensic photography was done in film still! How might someone find a job doing this? Is it universal that people will be using film or does it depend on where you might work?

[jocelynnmorales]

Thanks this helped me so much also I am not in high school I am in 6th grade.

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[nadaabraham]

while logging the pictures your taking do you log it into the book while taking the pictures or go back and do it once your back at the station

[highlifeman]

Should be shooting raw to show unaltered photograph.

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