Digital dental photography textbook
I have borrowed the book: "Mastering digital dental photography" by Wolfgange Bengel (2006) as it was one of the recommended books from the Szabi Hant dental photography course. It is a fairly extensive book and covers in depth very technical aspects of photography and aspects relevant to dentistry. I will not be reading the whole book as it goes deep into certain topics such as how camera sensors work and camera recommendations that are fairly dated. However I will try to extract the more useful points form this text and summarise them on this blog. I find that after taking photographs for some years I can take fairly well exposed, reproducible photos but it would be good to have a theoretical basis behind what I do to understand why a photo doesn't turn out as well as it could and maybe learn a few things about how to make my photos even better. The first chapter talks about why we take photographs in dentistry. Human beings are visually driven people and ...