- Not working properly
- Pointed at an angle that makes it impossible to view a suspect’s face
- Out of focus, causing blurry or fuzzy images
- Set with bad lighting, causing shadows
- Poor quality
Within the last decade, video enhancement tools have become very helpful for those investigating certain types of crime. Several companies offer sophisticated tools to enhance video, but sometimes a forensic artist can be used to produce the ‘enhancement.’ Forensic artists can view a film and try to produce a composite drawing that can potentially produce more leads on a case."
To read more, check out this very interesting article from Barbara A. Martin Bailey at Forensic Magazine. Their web site offers a ton of useful information, like this article on Ethics and this feature on Civilian Crime Scene workers.. Forensic Magazine even offers a free print subscription.
2 comments:
What forensic software is available for Mac users.
Just about all of the plug-ins described in this blog are available for mac. Photoshop, of course, is available for mac - myself being a mac user. On the capture side, you have many options as well. Actually, I think that there are more options available to mac users than there are for PC.
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