What is medical photography?
Medical photography is taking pictures of something medical. That something is either persons (patients) and objects of medical interest. Taking pictures of patients may consist of taking pictures of the whole person or body or just a portion of the persons body such as the head, neck, chest, abdomen, or extremity or a deeper part of the persons body usually done during and after an operation such as thyroid, breast, stomach, colon, kidney, etc. As to time of picture taking of patients, this may be done at consultation, during the pretreatment (preoperative), intratreatment (intraoperative) and posttreatment (postoperative) phases. Taking pictures of objects of medical interest may consist of taking pictures of medical equipment (both diagnostic and therapeutic) and diagnostic results, pictures, and plates. What are the two kinds of medical photography or pictures in terms of motion? Still pictures and motion pictures (videos). Motion pictures are taken if one wants to capture the step
