Dental Photography Course
Category: Marketing and Management
Instructor(s): Stas Belous
Course structure: Lessons: 5 lessons | Duration: 3 h 16 min
Course overview
After completing this course you will gain a powerful tool for communicating with any patient. Learn the basics and discover the most effective dental photography techniques.
Who this series of recordings is ideally suited for:
- Practicing doctors
- Advanced students
- Owners of private clinics and offices
- Dental therapists
- Prosthodontists
- Orthodontists
- Pediatric dentists
- Correspondents of dental journals
- Everyone who wants to promote themselves.
What you will learn
- Explain essential camera construction, lens selection, and flash types for dental photography.
- Set optimal exposure (shutter, aperture, ISO) and lighting for varied clinical situations.
- Capture consistent intraoral and extraoral images using standardized angles, protocols, and accessories.
- Process RAW dental images in Lightroom: batch edits, color correction, noise reduction, and export.
Course lessons
Lesson 1. Dental Photography: Camera Settings
- Why is photography needed in dentistry?
- Camera settings. How is a camera constructed?
- Which lenses to choose?
- Flashes: Ring vs Bipolar. The importance of light in photography
- Market overview of offerings. How not to waste extra money
- The concept of exposure. What shooting parameters affect: shutter speed, aperture, ISO
- Study of additional accessories for dental shooting: mirrors, contrastors, retractors, gray card
- How to set shooting parameters depending on the situation.
Lesson 2. Dental Photography: Shooting Process
- Angles, number of photographs, creative approach in dentistry
- Where is the photo world heading? Trends, development prospects
- Comparative analysis of cameras on the market
- Accessories: synchronizers, softboxes: portable, stationary, lightboxes
- Importance of photo processing
- Systematization of photos and storage.
Lesson 3. Photography - Practice
- Demonstration of taking photographs
- Camera setup in a specific clinical situation
- Photo protocol in practice
- Photograph training
- Flashes in practice: Ring and Bipolar
- Use of softbox.
Lesson 4. Photo Editing: The Importance of Processing
- Why shoot in RAW?
- Why process RAW?
- Breakdown of Photoshop Lightroom workflow (Cropping, white balance correction, color correction, noise reduction, sharpening, etc.)
- Demonstration of photo editing.
Lesson 5. Photo Editing: How to Edit and Store Photos
- Demonstration of photo processing
- Batch photo processing, how it works and why?
- Ready-made presets for mass processing of dental photos (Personal Lifehack)
- Data export. Saving processed photos
- Cloud system storage
- How much time will working with a photo take for you, sharing personal experience
- What will happen after you fully master LR and can process photos yourself? Development options
