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Name: ____________________________________ Chapter 3 Crime Scene Photography 1. Can a wide-angle lens be used in exterior overalls? Interior overalls? How must you compose your photo if you are using a wide-angle lens? Why? Wide angles cannot be used for exterior overalls due to the importance of the evidence in the general surroundings around the crime scene for exterior overalls you must take your photos from a natural prospective. As for interior overalls we can use wide angles if there is not distortion produced. If you are using wide lens, then you should be film plane parallel. 2. How would you compose an intersection street sign? How does the jury know which street the crime was committed on? 3. When taking a photograph from a witness’s point of view do you want to move anything to get the best shot of the scene? What time should you take the photograph? 4. When taking an interior overall of a wall what angle should you compose the photograph? Why? What if there was a window directly across from your location? 5. (T or F) When composing a midrange photo, it is advantageous to have the photographer’s position, the evidence, and the fixed feature of the scene form a straight (vertical) line. 6. How do we compose midrange photographs? 7. Define a “Midrange” photograph. 8. When taking a midrange photo, one particular focal length of lens is recommended. What is this focal length, and why is it recommended? 9. Which aperture(s) do we use for critical comparisons? Why? 10. How should an item of evidence, which has been moved, be photographed? Why? What if it was a recreation? 11. Describe the four possible close-up photographs that should be taken for many items of evidence. 12. What is the required position for a scale in a close-up photo? 13. What category of crime scene photographs is never taken from a “natural perspective?”

14. A complete “panorama” of photos around the body means at least (for the body as originally found, before rolling it over)… a. 2 photos b. 4 photos c. 6 photos: (1) right side, (2) left side, (3) head-to-toe, (4) toe-to-head, (5) full face, (6) overhead. d. No photos since you do not work for the ME’s office. 15. General question: Identify the incorrect behaviors (6 problems) by the following crime scene photographer and indicate what should have been done instead: Upon approaching the scene, the photographer takes a series of exterior overall photos of the building where the crime occurred, to document the general conditions of the scene, using a telephoto lens. Following the exterior overalls of the building, the photographer then takes interior overalls of the room where the crime occurred, standing in one corner of the room and composing the opposite corner. He does this for each corner, using a wide angle lens, to get the whole room. There is a dead body in the center of the room, and there is a gun about 3 feet away. The photographer stands close to the gun and lines up the gun and the body so they extend in a line away from him. He photographs the gun and the body to show their relationship to each other. Then, he takes close ups of the gun. He takes the first photo “as is.” Then, he puts a scale down on the floor next to the gun and takes another photo. Finally, because he wants to photograph the other side of the gun as well, he flips it over in the exact same spot on the floor and photos it again. When photographing the body, the photographer takes two shots, one from the side and one from the top, because it shows the entry wound well. He thinks he’s got all the necessary photographs....