Crime Scene Photography,   ISBN:9780123693839

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Bravo! This is the type of publication that rates up there with all the finest of reference books ever produced for any age. I just met one of the authors students who was enrolled in one of my classes and she informed me that she uses the latest revised edition which is two above this one. Kudos to the author and his humility for allowing himself to be refined by a multitude of wise counsulors to our enrichment.
Thanks, B.Deal

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One of the best and most useful textbooks I've ever bought. An easy read and very thorough.

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Thanks to books like this and Amazon, I am now a Criminalist without being broke.

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I have read the book, I love photography, and am a crime scene photographer. The book was repetitious, had numerous errors which could be confusing to a new photographer, went into too much depth on using out of date equipment. I work for a medium size department serving half a million people. I talk to photographers from all size agencies. So far my agency is the only one still using film as the primary capture medium. Smaller agencies seem to update faster due to the fact they do not have to buy as much equipment as we do. We still have better equipment than what is discussed in the majority of the book. Yes, he does mention digital, but his flash technology is way outdated. Why focus on the flash compensator when most people are using digital flash readout and compensation. There was valuable information, but it was buried in too much filler used to make this of acceptable textbook length.

As I said, I am an avid photographer, but this book took alot of slogging through. I discussed this with other crime scene photographers who also are avid photographers. We agreed that if we did not already love photography this book would have put us off. If this book was not required by IAI none of us would have read it. Thankfully I did not have to spend my own money on it.

Unfortunately there is a very slim selection of crime scene photography books available.

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This book is the best out there on this topic. As a forensic science grad student, I wrote many a paper on photography. I struggled to find sources that were up-to-date and specific to forensic photography. I really wish that this book had been out there when I was writing those papers!
Grad school over & MFS degree obtained, I am now a crime scene analyst. I use the principles in this book at every crime scene to which I respond--from property calls to crimes against persons. Crime scene work is probably 70% photography. Good photographs are vital! This book explains the principles used in crime scene work, and gives tons of examples. Sometimes the reading can be dry (hello, it's a textbook)and a topic can be difficult to grasp on your first read, but re-read it and dig in! The information that you will come away with is golden.