365 Photo Project
January 31, 2010 § Leave a comment
Tomorrow, on February 1st, I’m starting a 365 photo project, where I’ll post one photo yeach day for a year (photo credit).
I will strive to post mostly fresh photos, but I will also post some old ones I’ve dug out from the archives.
I’ve set up a separate blog for this project, at http://sterileeye365.wordpress.com. Be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed or subscribe by email at the site. I will also post the updates on Twitter.
Hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I’ll hopefully do!
UPDATE (05.10.10): The 365 blog has been shut down and the photos archived here.
Vintage Stuff Part 2 – Storz Endoscope Adapter
January 24, 2010 § 4 Comments
Olympus OM-2 with Storz 593-T2 endoscope adapter. Click to enlarge. Photo by Øystein Horgmo © All rights reserved.
We have an Olympus OM-2 kit at work, complete with a range of lenses, a flash and a Storz 593-T2 endoscope adapter. This adapter makes it possible to attach the camera to any Storz endoscope, such as gastroscopes, colonoscopes and laparoscopes. « Read the rest of this entry »
Vintage Stuff Part 1: SEI Exposure Photometer
December 17, 2009 § 21 Comments
The SEI Exposure Photometer with leather bag. Click to enlarge. Photo by Øystein Horgmo © All rights reserved.
The cupboards and shelves at the Photographic & Video Services, my new job, are filled with old photo equipment, collected throughout the department’s history. In this new post series I’m going to pull some of the more interesting items into the strobe light. The first item is the SEI Exposure Photometer, a truly remarkable vintage gadget. « Read the rest of this entry »
Kids Love Buttons
December 7, 2009 § 3 Comments
One of the most fun and challenging parts of my new job is photographing infants. I used to only work with cancer, and few children, so shooting toddlers with less serious conditions is a very positive experience. Even though the kids themselves are not always that positive (photo credit). « Read the rest of this entry »
Framectomy
November 26, 2009 § 4 Comments
The instruments of a framectomy. Photo by Øystein Horgmo © All rights reserved.
One of the first days in my new job, I found myself using the scalpel and artery forceps to free some old photos from their pathologic frames. « Read the rest of this entry »
Close-Up Medical Photography
October 8, 2009 § 2 Comments
Diagram from "The Use of Close-up Photography in Clinical Medicine".
I recently came across an article called “The Use of Close-up Photography in Clinical Medicine”, from the June 1962 issue of the Singapore Medical Journal. Although the photographic equipment has changed over the years, the principles remain the same, and are well described in this paper. « Read the rest of this entry »
Keyhole Surgery
October 7, 2009 § Leave a comment
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Wordpress just gained access to the huge photo database PicApp. I decided to check it out, and of course searched for the term “surgery”. Among the thousands of celebrity plastic surgery pics, I found this gem.
Click on the arrow to get rid of the thumbnails, and hover your mouse over the photo for the background story.
The Patient and the Photographer
October 6, 2009 § 1 Comment
Patients are people – people with problems. They are often in pain and usually apprehensive. To them, the medical photographer is someone who, once more, submits them to an institutional routine. He takes their pictures, with part or all of their clothing removed, to show what is usually an embarrassing condition or deformity. Again, indispensable as photography is in the teaching and advancing of medicine, it does not present to the patient the same direct benefit as a radiograph or a blood test.
H. Lou Gibson, Medical photography; clinical-ultraviolet-infrared (1973). (photo credit)
The Party Bag
September 28, 2009 § 2 Comments
Colostomy (stoma) bags and mounting plate (top right). Photo by Øystein Horgmo © http://www.oncolex.no.
I was going through a lot of old photos today, and came across a funny one I’d completely forgotten. About a year ago I was working with a medical writer to document treatment for colorectal cancer. I was going to take several photos to accompany this video and a text about living with a stoma. That’s when I decided to play a little trick on the writer. « Read the rest of this entry »
Why You Should Take Your Own Clinical Photos
September 17, 2009 § 3 Comments
I have written a guest post for the dermatology blog DermMatters, published by the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology (JDD). Titled “Why You Should Take Your Own Clinical Photos”, the post contains five tips for doctors who want to start taking their own pictures. Check it out here!
The Sterile Eye 