Picture Request Guidelines

Camera and Background Settings

• Take your picture against a solid, dark background to avoid backlight and glare;
• Use the flash and zoom settings to allow you to capture the image more clearly;
• Take photos from several distances and angles to best capture the subject, but
• maintain a distance of at least 30cm between the subject (skin or laboratory result)
• and the camera (Figure 1)
• Get someone to take the photo for you, or use a table and the timer, to photograph
• parts of the body that are less accessible to you. (Figure 2)

Figure 1 Optimal Distance Figure 2 Clear Capture Distance

How to Photograph Laboratory Results

A copy of the laboratory result must contain the following in one image. You may
send multiple images as long as the general view containing the following is included.

Please make sure that the results are clear and

readable. (Figure 3)

1. Name of Patient
2. Name and License number of the
doctor/pathologist who interpreted the results,
and/or medical technologist who conducted the
tests
3. Medical Facility
4. Date of test done

Figure 3 Readable Results

How to Photograph Changes in The Skin And Eyes
• The face of the patient must be taken for general view (Figure 4)
• For lesions and swelling of face, eye(s), submit the following:
1. A picture of whole face (Figure 4 & 6)
2. Both eyes (Figure 6 & 7)
3. Target view of the affected area (Figure 5 & 7)

Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6 Figure 7

General face view Targeted face view General eye view Targeted eye view

Required Distances
• Optimal distance between camera and object is 40-60 cm
• General view and Targeted view (Figure 9 & 10)
o Target view: close-up photo with a ruler or a coin next to the skin to clearly
o see any changes in the skin and to compare the size; (Figure 8)
o Side-view showing whether the skin is raised or even;
o General view (zoomed out) indicating on which body part the change in skin
occurred and allowing a full view of the healthy and unhealthy skin;

Figure 8 Coin and rash comparison Figure 9 Figure 10

General view Targeted view