An Analytical Study Of Photography In Forensic Science

Authors: Baby Rashmi Rani

Abstract: Crime Scene Photography is basically based on Photograghy. The word photograph has derived from the Greek word ‘Photo’ which means light and ‘Graphia’ which means writing. It is an art , science and practice of creating images through the recording of light-sensitive material. Crime scene photography is an part of forensic photography. Forensic photography is the field that deals with the use of various photography techniques that helps to find various important evidences on the scene of crime for further documentation. Items of trace evidences are photographed in situ, commonly with rulers or other objects to scale the size , distance from corpus. Photomicrography involves taking pictures of the evidences which are not visible from naked eyes like blood, other body fluids, bullet markings, etc.