Case Studies
Case History 1
2:30 pm
We received a call from a Hartford attorney requesting trial evidence to be photographed for jury presentation the following morning. The evidence was a biopsy of cancerous brain matter on a wax slide measuring less than a half-inch. The trial attorney realized the tissue sample was very small and difficult to see, so he decided he needed large photos of the sample to present to the jury. The attorney came to our Manchester studio where we immediately photographed the evidence on 4x5 color negative film under his observation. He approved a test Polaroid and left with the original evidence. We processed the sheet film, made four 16x20 color prints of the tissue sample enlarged 30 times. The cancerous cells were now over 12 inches in size. We mounted the prints on black foam core and delivered them to the attorney at 8:15 pm with our negatives and an affidavit stating what we had done. Elapsed time for the job was 5 hours 45 minutes from call to delivered photographs. We remained on call the following day for the possibility of testifying in court.
Case History 2
4:15 pm
On Thursday we received a call from a Waterbury attorney who needed CT scans enlarged for presentation to a jury. A courier arrived at the studio at 6 pm with eighteen CT scans that were selected to show the nine-month progression of a brain tumor in a five year old. The original CT scans measured less than two inches and we photographed each scan. We processed the film that evening and made eighteen 20x24 prints and mounted them on black foam core. This job was ready for court at 8 am the next morning. A courier picked up the eighteen prints, original CT scans and our negatives, along with an affidavit stating what we had done.
Case History 3
5:25 pm
On Thursday we received a call from a paralegal from a national law firm that needed flip chart demonstratives photographed the next day in Federal Court in Hartford, during jury deliberations. We met the paralegal and a staff attorney in front of the court at 10 a.m. the next morning, went through two security checkpoints, and then set up in the courtroom. We photographed the demonstratives within a three-hour time frame, despite being interrupted when the jury was brought into the courtroom to have questions answered and again for a fire drill. All the digital photographs of the charts were converted to PDF files, put on a CD and printed as 8.5 X 11 color copies and delivered in a three ring binder the following Monday morning to the attorney’s hotel. This binder proved invaluable, as the case was declared a mistrial due to a hung jury. Another trial was scheduled and after the second trial we were called again to Bridgeport to photograph additional demonstratives. The second trial ended with a conviction, and the case is being appealed.
Case History 4
9:15 am
We received a call from an office manager at a Hartford law firm and we made an appointment for the following week to photograph the partners for a new website. The next Tuesday at 8 am we arrived at their offices and set up our equipment in the lobby area. We started with a group shot of the partners in various poses. We then photographed each partner individually in a different setting: the law library, the conference room and several different offices to make each portrait unique. All photography was completed by 11 am respecting the need for the attorneys to continue their work. The following morning digital proofs were sent via e-mail to the office manager and she forwarded the proofs to each partner and they made final selections. The day after the selections were made, all images were optimized, retouched and delivered via e-mail to the firm. We then mailed to the firm a DVD of high-resolution files of the selected images.