Talk:Forensic photography

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Law Enforcement
Please explain why law enforcement tag has been removed from the article. It is a topic which should be studied by every investigator, police or otherwise. Peterlewis 17:07, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * This edit removed the tag because specialist forensic sciences are outside the scope of the Law Enforcement project. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 11:37, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Draft a new lead section
Forensic photography is sometimes referred to as crime scene photography. Crime scene photography is an activity to record the initial appearance of the crime scene and physical evidence, to provide the permanent record for the courts.

Crime scene photography is very different from many other types of photography. Crime scene photography differs from other variations of photography because the crime scene photographers usually have a very specific purpose for capturing each image.

Crime scene is the source of the physical evidence that is used to associate or link suspects to scenes, victims to scenes, and suspects to victims. That is the Locard Exchange Principle. It is the basic tenet of why crime scenes are investigated. Anything can be physical evidence found at a crime scene.

In scientific crime scene investigation, the first three activities at the crime scene are essential for the successful preservation of the physical evidence. The first responder and ultimately the crime scene investigator have the obligation to make the scene secure and insure that any further activities at the scene do not change the evidence. The use of a multilevel security method will accomplish this task. The beginning of the on-scene activities occurs with the preliminary scene survey. Precautions for transient and conditional evidence are done at this step too.

The documentation of a crime scene is done by four methods: notes, videography, still photography, and sketching. They are methods of written, visual, and quantitative records. The legal requirement of relevancy is met by these techniques.

Comment:

I found some shortcomings of this article. I think that this article doesn’t explain process of forensic photography well. Moreover, it doesn’t have enough visual data such as example photos. For that reason, I’m going to add some information related to process of forensic photography to fill its shortcomings of this article. The process will be divided by three parts. First of all, Preliminary preparation process will be first process. And then, the step by step process of forensic photography will be second process. And, methods will be final process. A content which is related with methods are already exist in this article. But, existing contents of methods are too limited. I'm going to add more specific and professional information on heading of methods to fill its shortcomings.

To achieve above plan, I explained the process of forensic photography briefly on my new lead section draft with methods of documentation crime scene. Above lead section are consisting brief content of whole article. First paragraph includes definition. Second paragraph is about feature of forensic photography. Third and fourth paragraph includes step by step process of forensic photography. Final paragraph is consisting methods which is related with documentation of crime scene.

And, I’m going to add more specific information about feature of forensic photography under feature heading. And then, I’m going to add three heading to explain process of forensic photography. Each heading will be added by great photo examples such as actual documentation, actual forensic photo to help people understanding. Finally, I’m going to add equipment which is related with forensic photography.

Below headings are what I'm going to add or edit.

PILJOONG KANG (talk) 22:56, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

List of Annotated Bibliography
1.Citation: Edward M. Robinson, Chapter 1 - An Overview of Crime Scene Photography and Composition, In Introduction to Crime Scene Photography, Academic Press, San Diego, 2013, Pages 1-77, ISBN 9780123865434, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-386543-4.00001-8.(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123865434000018)

Comment: I found great introduction sources which are related with Crime scene photography. I’m going to use content which is a feature of forensic photography to explain difference between general artistic photography and forensic photography.

2.Citation: Marilyn T. Miller, Exercise I - Crime Scene Documentation: Photography, In Crime Scene Investigation Laboratory Manual, Academic Press, San Diego, 2014, Pages 59-70, ISBN 9780124051973, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-405197-3.00009-5.(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780124051973000095)

Comment: This book is explained about method of forensic photography and process. Especially, this book is dealing with theoretical elements which are related with forensic photography. I’m going to add theoretical elements of forensic photography for this article.

3.Citation: Andrew R. Reitnauer, 34 - Crime Scene Response and Evidence Collection, In Security Supervision and Management (Fourth Edition), edited by Sandi J. DaviesChristopher A. HertigBrion P. Gilbride, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2015, Pages 443-459, ISBN 9780128001134, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-800113-4.00034-1.(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128001134000341)

Comment: This book is also dealing with method of crime scene photography and skills. However, this book is dealing with actual examples of forensic photography through actual photo. Especially, this book shows which photo is correct photo as proper crime scene photo through comparison. I’m going to utilize actual visual examples for my article. Those visual contents will help people who read this article to understand easily about this article.

4.Citation: Wayne Petherick and Andrew Rowan, Chapter 3 - Physical Evidence and the Crime Scene, In Applied Crime Analysis, Academic Press, 2015, Pages 39-61, ISBN 9780323294607, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-29460-7.00003-X.(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978032329460700003X)

Comment: This book has a lot of background knowledge which is related with forensic photography. These contents will be great background knowledge to give reliability about scientific method of forensic photography. If I add this back ground knowledge on this article, this article would get abundant contents.

5.Citation: Jacqueline T. Fish, Larry S. Miller, Michael C. Braswell and Edward W. Wallace Jr., Chapter 3 - Documenting the Crime Scene: Photography, Videography, and Sketching, In Crime Scene Investigation (Third Edition), Anderson Publishing, Ltd., Boston, 2014, Pages 59-83, ISBN 9781455775408, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-4557-7540-8.00003-4.(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9781455775408000034)

Comment: This book is dealing with equipment of forensic photography. And, it also have contents which are related with post processing and crime scene sketch. Moreover, there are some actual scene records and additional activities in actual crime scene. I’m going to make two heading which are equipment and additional activities which is related with forensic photography to add above mentioned content.--PILJOONG KANG (talk) 04:07, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

6.Citation: Marilyn T. Miller and Peter Massey, Chapter 1- Crime Scene Investigations, In The Crime Scene, Academic Press, San Diego, 2016, Pages 3-15, ISBN 9780128012451, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-801245-1.00001-3.(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128012451000013)

Marilyn T. Miller and Peter Massey, Chapter 2 - Initial On-Scene Procedures, In The Crime Scene, Academic Press, San Diego, 2016, Pages 17-33, ISBN 9780128012451, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-801245-1.00002-5. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128012451000025)

Marilyn T. Miller and Peter Massey, Chapter 4 - Crime Scene Photography, In The Crime Scene, Academic Press, San Diego, 2016, Pages 45-94, ISBN 9780128012451, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-801245-1.00004-9. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128012451000049)

Marilyn T. Miller and Peter Massey, Chapter 3 - Notes and Videography, In The Crime Scene, Academic Press, San Diego, 2016, Pages 37-44, ISBN 9780128012451, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-801245-1.00003-7. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128012451000037) Keywords: Documentation; Documentation in the documentation; Note taking; Orientation; Placard; Plan of action; Videography; Visual record; Written record

Comment: I'm going to use this citation for lead section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PILJOONG KANG (talk • contribs) 20:10, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Peer Evaluation
First of all, this article is extremely well organized and has a vast amount of detail and information, so great job with that! I think it is extremely important that you added pictures, because the article itself is about a specific type of photography. I think the best part of this article is the lead section. The lead section is extremely well organized and clearly lays out exactly what forensic photography is, as well as a clear organization for what is going to be discussed in the rest of the article. I am definitely going to go back and look at my own article with your organization in mind. I want to make my article as easy to read and follow as yours. One thing that stuck out to me was the four methods of crime scene photography. You state that these methods are notes, videography, still photography, and sketching. I have a very general idea of what these methods could mean, and you elaborate very slightly in the following sentence, but I think it would be beneficial for readers if elaborated into grater detail. What are some examples of each method? Why is it important to incorporate all methods? Information such as this will really improve your article. Juliestein016 (talk) 16:46, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Feedback can be found here: User:Kristinapham/Forensic photography/Kristinavalle22 Peer Review. Great work on this arctile. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kristinavalle22 (talk • contribs) 16:55, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Lack of citatons
A majority of this article lacks citations. I am not sure where particular pieces of information are obtained and thus whether it is correct or not. I would rather not have most of the content removed, please check your sources! Kristinapham (talk) 19:12, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Seminars in Forensic Science
— Assignment last updated by Nameless and unknown (talk) 01:13, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

"Photogrpah"
A lot of the photographs are mislabeled "Photogrpah". Plus, it might be better rather them all labeled "Photograph 1 and Photograph 2" to make them "Photograph 1 and Photograph 2" then "Photograph 3 and Photograph 4", etc. 139.169.88.122 (talk) 19:59, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Seminars in Forensic Science
— Assignment last updated by OHull (talk) 02:41, 15 April 2024 (UTC)