Mike Fulton

Learn the foundation aspects of crime scene photography.

Lights, Camera, ARREST – Forensic Photography!

Mike Fulton
Course Number: 17
Level: Intermediate

Come learn what it is truly like to be a forensic photographer. In this class you will learn the foundation aspects of crime scene photography, blended in with hands-on experiments within the forensic world.

Each day we will build upon what we learned the day before, from basic aspects of how to capture a crime scene, to processing for fingerprints and photographing them, to understanding how each item on a crime scene should be captured as well as processed.

It will be an extremely hands-on course, so bring your photography equipment as daily challenges will be done to assist in the learning process. This course is for anyone who is curious on how a crime scene photographer works, interested in pursuing a career in the forensic world, and without question will be guaranteed to be a loads of Texas School styled fun.

With over two decades of crime scene experience, and hundreds of violent scenes processed, Mike will provide real life crime scene events to assist in the learning process.

This is an Intermediate Level Class. One should know the foundation aspects of photography and how f/stop, shutter speed, and ISO related to each other and how they affect the images captured.

Course Topics:

Basic Photography
Basic Electronic Flash including TTL Concepts
Composition for the Crime Scene (How to photograph crime scenes)
Photography of Chemoluminescent Blood Reagents
Painting-with-Light Lighting Techniques – including lasers
Fingerprint Photography and Specialized Evidence Lighting Techniques
Alternate Light Source Photography
Legal Issues for Digital Photography

Practical Exercised by Instructor and/or Students:

Electronic Flash Operation
Bluestar© Reagent Photography
Low-Light Photography/Painting with Light
Fingerprint Photography and Evidence Lighting
Alternate Light Source Photography
Processing of Chemicals to develop latent fingerprints

Suggested Audience:

Amateur Photographers wanting to learn more about the basic concepts of forensic photography
Professional Photographers wanting to expand their photographic knowledge base

Students Should Bring: