Forensic Photography Lighting

Video Transcript

"My name is Anthony Maddaloni, and I'm going to be talking about forensic photography lighting. Now, forensic photography can be anywhere from a crime scene to inside a medical examiner's lab. So your lighting is very, extremely important because you're really presenting facts. One type of flash that I have used in some type of forensic photography is a ring flash. Now, this is a flash that actually goes on the lens of my camera and gets extremely close to what I'm shooting. If I was shooting, let's say, a hair or some type of evidence on somebody's hand, I would want that ring flash because it is going to directly hit what I'm photographing. If I was using a flash that was mounted on top of my camera, unless it was hand-held, it would be sort of difficult. So a ring flash is the type of lighting that you would really like to use for forensic photography. One, also, type of lighting that you could use is just still lights. Most of the time, they're not used because forensic photography is really the type of lighting you want to use is not something that is heat-based. Heat would not be good to use in a situation like that. So you really want to stick with a more artificial flash type for forensic photography. And those are some of the types of lighting that I would use for forensic photography."