One, Three or Five day training courses are available upon request.

Topics to include;
Basic Digital Photography, Crime Scene Photography, Forensic Lighting
Techniques, Digital UV/IR Applications, Bloodstain Enhancement Techniques.
Call for pricing.
-Topic Schedule-

Day One:

Introduction and Background & Goals of Attendees...................................0.5 hr.

Properties of Light
Light can only react three ways...............................................................0.5 hr.

The Electromagnetic Spectrum
What does an automatic door opener, radio/TV & its remote, a rainbow
and solar winds have in common with a slinky?......................................1.0 hr.
Slinky Wave Length Exercise

Spectrophotometry 101......................................................................................0.5 hr.
Components
Construction of a shoe box spectrophotometer

History of the ALS.............................................................................................0.5 hr.

Components of the ALS.....................................................................................1.0 hr.
How to construct your own.
Finding the funding to get your ALS.

Relation of Spectophotometry to the ALS.........................................................0.5 hr.
Beer’s Law
Breathalyzers

Applications of the ALS.....................................................................................0.5 hr.
ALS manual handout.

Afternoon Lab Practicum...................................................................................3.0 hrs.
First Photo Efforts
Restraints lab
Contusions
Protein Stains


Day Two:

Spectrophotometery made easy............................................................................1.0 hr.
Choosing the proper barrier filter
Inverse Square Law (1/X*2)
Modes and scope of ALS application.

Types of ALS’s......................................................................................................0.5 hr.
Photography with the ALS....................................................................................0.5 hr.

Absorption & Reflection.......................................................................................0.5 hr.

Scatter.....................................................................................................................0.5 hr.

Fluorescence...........................................................................................................0.5 hr.
Barrier filters lab
Short pass filters
Long pass filters
Band pass filters
Glass vs. Plastic

Afternoon Lab Practicum Documenting with Photography.................................4.0 hrs.


Third Day :

Presumptive Bloodstain Technique demonstrations
Luminol, Phenolphtalien, Fluorescein, LCV.
FBI Reagents Handout.

Powerpoint and video presentation
Followed by question & Answer Period................................................................2.5 hrs.
Chemical principle handout.
Technical aspects handout.
Scientific literature studies (3) handouts.

Documentation Techniques.....................................................................................1.0 hr.
Traditional photography
Digital photography
Videography
Documentation techniques handout.

Chemical Reagent Kits...........................................................................…..............0.5 hr.

Spray Equipment Operation Principles;
Equipment Kit Inventory
Equipment Adjustment
Equipment Maintenance

Equipment Troubleshooting.....................................................................................1.0 hr.

Equipment familiarization & troubleshooting........................................................1.0 hr.

Bloody Foot Trail exercise.......................................................................................1.0 hr.
Foot Trial Data Collection.
Foot Trail Data Comparison.
Foot Trail Data Calculation.
Bloody Foot Trails literature handout.

Generate Exemplars..................................................................................................1.0 hr.
Various Bloodstains on Various Substrates and Surfaces..


Fourth Day :

Alternate Light Source (ALS) General Discussion and
Application with the Fluorescein Technique..................................................……1.0 hr.

Technical Aspects of the Fluorescein Technique, Theoretical & Practical...........1.0 hr.
Division of Labor and the Different Roles of the Heme-Team.
Division of labor handout.
What Causes Background and How to Mitigate Effects of Background Fluorescence.
Background fluorescence handout.
When is the Fluorescein Technique Appropriate and Problematic Situations to Consider.
Criteria to consider handout.

Discussion of the Stock Solutions and Working Solution Concentrations..........0.5 hr.
Doing the math made easy. .
Chemical kit instruction handout.

Pre/Post Fluorescein Procedures and Evidence Collection Methods...................1.0 hr.
Working with and Augmenting Other Crime Scene Techniques.
Fingerprint Dust.
DNA Collection Methods
Protein Stains.
Sample case handout (terminology and phraseology)

Written Examine.......................................................................................................0.5 hr.

Generate Fluorescein Stock Solution and Working Solution................................0.5 hr.

First Laboratory Practicum; Process Evidence Exemplars & Documentation.....3.5 hrs.


Last Day:

Review and critique previous days documentation (photography & video)..........2.0 hr.

Review of scientific principles and applications.....................................................1.0 hr.
Now you know what and why

Final comments, evaluations and handout certificates..................................1.0 hr.

The last half day is for retesting and/or repeating any exercises which the student was
not successful or comfortable as necessary.