Blog #18: Answer 2

Forensic Photography of the Past. *see below*

1.  What is your EQ?

• What skill is most useful to a crime scene investigator in an investigation?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

• The most useful skill to a crime scene investigator to have is the ability to properly fingerprint.

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

• The most useful skill to a crime scene investigator is photography.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

• Photography is one of the best ways to document how a crime scene looks, and if done properly give proportion. Or how everything is in comparison to one another. It is especially essential when documenting special case condition crime scenes, such as night time, or any other conditions which might distort the crime scene.
• Crime scene photography is also used to best capture evidence. A proper CSI as required documents all evidence found at the crime scene, and other locations as well. Certain evidence as well can only be seen with the aid of a camera.
• Another reason knowing photography is essential as a CSI, is because CSI's present evidence in a case at court. The best way to explain something to a jury is to show a picture, rather than read reports.

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

• Staggs, Steven. "Crime Scene and Evidence Photography — Camera and Lighting." Crime Scene and Evidence Photography. Crime Scene Investigator Network, n.d. Web. 04 Feb. 2016. <http://www.crime-scene-investigator.net/csp-cameraandlighting.html>.

6.  What other source supports your answer?

• My interview #2 with my mentor would be my second best source. During the interview we talked about skills that were without a doubt essential, and photography was one of them.

7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.

Forensic Photography of the Future.

• Photography is high up on there as one of the most important skills a crime scene investigator should have. There is so much more when forensics and phototgraphy combine. It is not so simple as to point a camera and hit shoot, there are many different aspects and specific things you have to do whilst competing forensic photography. Which is probably why this is one of my favorite answers out of the three.