Schedule

The schedule of EPIC School Programming is presented below. Your EPIC School registration also includes access to all Imaging USA events, including the three-day Imaging EXPO, the Anne Geddes Keynote Presentation and the opening and closing night parties. For a look at all that Imaging USA has to offer, visit

Saturday January 10 (Pre-Convention)

Photography Basics (additional fee, $125)
Randy Anglin, EPC
9am-5pm
Learn the art, science, and mechanics of photography, as all are essential for success. The basics of composition, exposure, focusing, depth of field, lenses, and flash will be explained.

Sunday January 11

7:00am-8:30am
Photographing Vehicles for Litigation
Jack Murray
You know how to take photographs…but do you know what photographs to take? Join Jack, a celebrated investigator, author, and instructor, as he helps you learn what is important to photograph for the civil or criminal courtroom.

9:00am-10:30am
Photography of Trace Evidence Using Accutrans
King Brown & Dawn Watkins
Trace evidence is difficult to recover, but King and Dawn will show you how you can capture those images with the Accutrans medium. Learn the basic principles of Polyvinylsiloxane, trace evidence recovery, and the Accutrans system.

11:00am-12:30pm
Lighting Techniques for Crime Scene I
Mike Fulton
Learn how to correctly light a crime scene with simple, effective, and inexpensive lighting methods that will enhance every image. Topics include basic wireless flash techniques using the eTTL or iTTL system, video light techniques, problems that can arise from low-light photography, and overall solutions to solve crime scene—and other related law enforcement photography—issues.

Noon-5:30pm
IMAGING EXPO

5:00pm-6:00pm
Lighting Techniques for Crime Scene II
Mike Fulton
Rejoin Mike for the second installment of his class on correctly lighting a crime scene with simple, effective, and inexpensive lighting methods that will enhance every image. Topics include basic wireless flash techniques using the eTTL or iTTL system, video light techniques, problems that can arise from low-light photography, and overall solutions to solve crime scene—and other related law enforcement photography—issues.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Canon Crime Scene (Mock Shoot)
Sponsored by Canon
Mike Fulton
This hands-on workshop, led by Mike Fulton, allows you to practice photographing a mock crime scene with Canon cameras. The cameras and media cards are provided, and you’re even allowed to keep the media cards with your images.

Opening Night Party
Under the Desert Sky
7:00pm-9:00pm

Monday January 12

7:00am-8:30am
Back to the Future: Film Archiving for Digital Images
David Knoerlein, EPC & Steven Hagel
Sponsored by DIGINEG
There are major issues related to properly archiving and retrieving digitally born imagery, documents, and data. Learn the most cost-effective and comprehensive approach to long-term storage by integrating the best of both analog and digital technologies. You’ll see proven methodologies that minimize the risks and costs associated with storing and retrieving image and data information.

9:00am-10:30am
Digital 103 Foresnic Camera Configuration
Ron Taniwaki
Ron will teach you the recommended guidelines for optimizing digital cameras for forensic image capture. Topics include color space, sharpening, tone compensation, file type, file size, resolution, focus area, self timers, noise reduction, and long exposure NR.
Sponsored by Nikon

11:00am-12:30pm
Forensic Photography: Creating a Digital Photographic and Printing Workflow
Julio Sosa
Sponsored by Fujifilm
Join Julio to learn about the process of photographing and printing various subject matters, including:

• Forensic, Infrared, and UV digital photography
• Lighting techniques with a flash, including Quantum UVIR Flash
• Understanding and setting up a basic color workflow
• Setting up Adobe Photoshop CS3 (use of ACR)
• Working and printing with various media (like photographic and inkjet paper)

Noon-5:30pm
IMAGING EXPO

5:00pm-6:30pm
UV-IR Capture of Forensic Evidence
King Brown & Dawn Watkins
Learn the basics of UV & IR, along with the principles of this type of photography. You'll see the UV & IR reaction with hands-on demonstrations.

7:00pm-8:300pm
Anne Geddes Keynote Presentation

Tuesday January 13

7:00am-8:30am
Shooting Digital in the Raw
Mark Zabinski
It’s necessary for forensic photographers to understand the pros and cons of the different digital file formats available...so you can know the best format for each image. Join Mark to learn about digital image quality, enhancing an image further in Photoshop, the advantages of RAW file format, and the advantages of working with greater bit depth. And along with demonstrating a workflow that can give you better results, Mark will help you use digital file formats in a way that will give you more flexibility and quality.

(No previous digital photography experience required.)

9:00am-2:00pm
IMAGING EXPO

1:00pm-2:30am
90,000 Images
David Knoerlein
Learn how a system can categorize and store 90,000 images, include detailed descriptions, and allow for query and analysis of the evidence…all in a hostile work environment with geographic obstacles. David has firsthand experience with this system, for he helped create it.

From 2003 to 2007, David worked with the Justice Department as the Imaging Systems Manager for the Crime Scene Investigation unit led by the Army Corp of Engineers to design and manage an imaging system, documenting the mass grave exhumations in Iraq. Without question, it was the strictly adhered to Standard Operating Procedures—developed by Knoerlein—that legitimized this secure digital imaging system to withstand any scrutiny in World Court.  The evidentiary images gathered and maintained by Knoerlein’s system played a major role in the prosecution of Saddam Hussein and others for genocide in Iraq.

3:00pm-4:30am
Round Tables
EPIC School speakers are available to answer questions in a laid back environment. 

8:30pm-10:30pm
Closing Night Party