title: Setting apart the amateur from the professional: maintaining the value of standardised representational photography.
abstract: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the importance of standard representational photography in clinical photography and its aid in maintaining the gold standard in the medical illustration profession. it is important that professionals are aware of potential threats to good practice with many areas identified in the article.
authors.affiliation: Senior Clinical Photographer, Medical Illustration Department, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust . E-mail: Debbie.Banks@stees.nhs.uk.
authors.forename: Debbie
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Banks
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008488:Medical Illustration; D010781:Photography / Q000592:standards*
keywords: education; medical art and illustration; photography