On Friday 9th May a couple colleagues and myself were fortunate enough to have an opportunity to take some intra and extra oral photos of each other. From this experience I have a couple of hints you may or may not wish to consider when you take some pics.
1/ Dont forget that extra oral pics are taken with the camera rotated 90 degrees. The result being much more appealing pictures having less wasted space surrounding the person.
2/ When exposing pics, I found taking 3 - 5 pics sequentially (reasonably quickly one after the other of the same view) a very good strategy. This usually ensured that one of the pics was of an ideal quality and executed with minimal time wastage (taking one photo, having a look, realising it was not ideal, and then refocusing and retaking can be alot more time consuming and uncomfortable for the pt). Besides, there is ample room on your memory card and the unusable photos can be deleted later.
3/ No i think that was it! I hope my hints may somewhat help. So on that note, good luck and have fun!
2 comments:
Hi Luke
I've also had the idea of taking multiple photographs at a time. It won't help you if your positioning or angulation is wrong, but it is usefull if the patient moved, the flash didn't work on the first try, or some other minor error occured. Good job mentioning it here.
I'm waiting eagerly for a time where I can organise a photo session too.
Good luck with the photos everyone!
Nick
I wanted to know how people tooth their lateral (side) photo's? We didnt use a mirror to take them and they turned out good, but I read in a book that you are meant to use a mirror to take it. Let me know cos maybe I will have to take my lateral ones again.
Cheers
Acacsia
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