Digital Dental Photography

Course Overview

This intensive 2-day full training programme is designed to help take your dental photography to the next level. The course will focus on taking predictable and high quality intra and extra-oral photographs as well as increasing your skill set and portfolio with the use of truly artistic portraits and fine detail photographs.

The knowledge and ability of taking beautifully detailed photographs will bring the ‘X-factor’ to your practice, which in turn will be invaluable when showing patients the high quality dentistry you can offer.

As this course is largely a hands-on programme, places are very strictly limited.

Course Objectives

Demystifying the DSLR — working with DSLR is simple and easy
Understanding how a digital camera works and getting confident setting your camera
Always be ready to shoot
Document your cases from basic protocols to more advanced, from basic photos to artistic ones
Implementing a photo protocol that simplifies your work and saves you time
Understanding the indications of each flash and different techniques
Choosing your equipment correctly according to your needs
Mastering intra-oral photography
Mastering extra-oral photography
Mastering small product photography
Learning to use simple set-ups for beauty portraits

Syllabus

Theory Modules

Why dental photography?
Human eye vs digital camera
Basic principles in photography — anatomy of the camera
Diaphragm, depth of field in dental photography
Shutter, sensor, exposure triangle
Exposure modes and how to control exposure
Histogram, white balance
Flash modes — TTL or Manual?
Focus modes — AF vs Manual?
Reflex vs mirrorless cameras
Type of lenses, type of flashes
Ring flash vs twin flash, studio flashes
Common mistakes
How to choose the best equipment — recommendations
Type of mirrors, lip retractors, contrastors
Basic and advanced intra-oral photography protocol
Shade taking in dental photography
Direct light vs indirect light (light modifiers)
Small product photography
Brackets in intra-oral photography

Hands-On Sessions

Extra-oral documentation
DSD photo protocol
Intraoral photography I & II
Small product photography I & II
Artistic portrait I & II

Instructors

Dr Federico Brunner

Graduate of the University of Alfonso X Sabio of Dentistry, Madrid (2001). Post-graduate training in Oral Surgery and Implants. DSD Master 2016 (Smile Designer). Aesthetic Dentistry Awards Overall Winner 2015, United Kingdom. Co-founder of Digital Photography Academy and KOL for DSD Team.

Dr Jesus Creagh

Programme Director, Postgraduate Certificate in DSD, Photography, Video and Social Media in Dentistry at UCAM University (2018). DSD Academics KOL. Adjunct Professor at multiple universities across Spain. Co-Founder of Dental Photography Academy (2016). International speaker on implant therapy, photography, aesthetics, orthodontics, and marketing.