EVIDENCE PHOTOGRAPHY

By Bill Sommers

Here you are, at the scene of an accident, autopsy, or you are at an insurance vehicle storage yard, and you have with you, your camera. You are going to take pictures of the evidence that lies before you. Why? Why are you going to take photos of the evidence at hand?

By GEI staff with coaching from Gary Peck

Modern automatic cameras take care of the details for you, and give generally good pictures for most conditions.   But what happens if your general settings don’t give you the results that you want?   Then you may want to manually adjust your settings.   For that, you need to know some basic terms and principles of how cameras work.   Here are some of the basic principles of cameras.

How much money does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent light bulb? About US$4.28 for the bulb and labor -- unless you break the bulb.

Then you, like Brandy Bridges of Ellsworth, Maine, could be looking at a cost of about $2,004.28, which doesn't include the costs of frayed nerves and risks to health.