CRIME SCENE PHOTOGRAPHY KEENE, NH MAY 28-29, 2025
This immersive 2- or 3-day course is tailored for police detectives aiming to elevate their crime scene photography expertise. We start with the basics and build your skills throughout the course. Through classroom instruction and hands-on field exercises, participants will master techniques essential for producing high-quality, court-admissible images that meticulously document evidence and scene conditions. After this course, you will be confident to shoot at any crime scene.
Key areas of focus include:
• Advanced Camera Handling: Using DSLR and mirrorless cameras effectively in forensics.
• Lighting Mastery: Overcoming challenges in low-light and nighttime environments to ensure clarity and detail.
• Detail-Oriented Imaging: Employing close-up and macro photography to capture intricate details such as fingerprints, tool marks, and blood spatter.
• Technical Precision: Applying proper exposure settings, depth of field adjustments, and composition techniques to enhance image quality.
• Specialized Light Applications: Alternate light sources are used to reveal biological evidence and trace materials that are not visible under standard lighting.
• Systematic Scene Documentation: Developing comprehensive visual records by methodically photographing crime scenes from multiple perspectives.
By the end of the course, detectives will possess the skills necessary to produce precise and reliable photographic evidence, bolstering the integrity of their investigations and subsequent legal proceedings.
Key areas of focus include:
• Advanced Camera Handling: Using DSLR and mirrorless cameras effectively in forensics.
• Lighting Mastery: Overcoming challenges in low-light and nighttime environments to ensure clarity and detail.
• Detail-Oriented Imaging: Employing close-up and macro photography to capture intricate details such as fingerprints, tool marks, and blood spatter.
• Technical Precision: Applying proper exposure settings, depth of field adjustments, and composition techniques to enhance image quality.
• Specialized Light Applications: Alternate light sources are used to reveal biological evidence and trace materials that are not visible under standard lighting.
• Systematic Scene Documentation: Developing comprehensive visual records by methodically photographing crime scenes from multiple perspectives.
By the end of the course, detectives will possess the skills necessary to produce precise and reliable photographic evidence, bolstering the integrity of their investigations and subsequent legal proceedings.
CRIME SCENE PROCESSING KEENE NH AUGUST 20-22, 2025
The success of a criminal investigation often hinges on the initial response and the thoroughness of crime scene processing. This Crime Scene Investigations Course equips students with essential skills for properly documenting scenes, identifying, processing, and collecting evidence, and preparing to testify on their findings. Designed for basic to intermediate-level investigators and technicians, and forensic science teachers. This course is ideal for those with limited field experience and experienced investigators that need a refresher on new procedures and processing techniques.
Course Structure
Instruction is delivered through engaging lectures followed by hands-on exercises, ensuring students can immediately apply the concepts learned. Photography plays a crucial role in crime scene documentation and evidence processing, and students will incorporate photography into the hands-on processing segments.
Required Equipment
Students must bring the digital camera, lenses, tripod, and high-intensity flashlight they use in their department. Exceptions can be made if your agency uses a different method to photograph scenes.
Topics Covered
Course Structure
Instruction is delivered through engaging lectures followed by hands-on exercises, ensuring students can immediately apply the concepts learned. Photography plays a crucial role in crime scene documentation and evidence processing, and students will incorporate photography into the hands-on processing segments.
Required Equipment
Students must bring the digital camera, lenses, tripod, and high-intensity flashlight they use in their department. Exceptions can be made if your agency uses a different method to photograph scenes.
Topics Covered
- Crime Scene Investigation Process – From initial response to final walkthrough
- Investigative Equipment & Techniques – Tools for effective scene processing form inexpensive to high-end equipment
- Crime Scene Photography – Manual mode, depth of field, ISO settings, file sizes, and tripod use
- Low-Light & Light-Painting Photography – Techniques for capturing critical details
- Scene Diagramming – Proper documentation and layout mapping
- Vehicle Processing – Specialized techniques for collecting evidence from vehicles
- Bloodstain Pattern Analysis – Identifying and interpreting blood evidence
- Chemical Processing for Blood Evidence – Use of Amido Black, Leuco Crystal Violet, Bluestar, and phenolphthalein
- DNA Evidence Collection – Proper handling and preservation techniques
- Detection of Cleaned-Up Crime Scenes – Methods for uncovering hidden evidence
- Latent Print Development – Including superglue fuming, powder processing, and ninhydrin application
- Footwear & Tire Evidence – Locating, documenting, casting impressions, and creating exemplars
- Mock Crime Scene Investigation – Applying learned techniques in a realistic scenarios
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