About Dr. Payet

Den­tist & Photographer

Hi, my name is Charles Payet, and I’m a full-time, solo prac­ti­cioner in the city of Char­lotte, NC.  Den­tal Pho­tog­ra­phy has been a pas­sion since I was intro­duced to it early in my career by col­leagues such as Dr. Ross Nash, Dr. Tony Soileau, Dr. Mike Barr, and some oth­ers.  With the advent of DSLRs in late 2003, high-quality dig­i­tal pho­tog­ra­phy became an afford­able real­ity for most den­tists, and I dove in head­first.  Pho­tog­ra­phy itself came eas­ily to me, as I’d been shoot­ing with a Canon EOS 650 since col­lege days in the early 1990’s.  The free­dom of dig­i­tal, though, allowed me to get more into the cre­ative side of pho­tog­ra­phy, as it was so easy to delete what­ever we don’t like with­out spend­ing all the money on slide film and developing.

But even with dig­i­tal, I have found the great­est chal­lenge in imple­ment­ing it into my prac­tice to be work­flow, i.e. get­ting the pic­tures from the cam­era to the com­puter in an eas­ily find­able and usable way, whether for case pre­sen­ta­tion or mar­ket­ing.  That’s why I decided to get this blog going; there is a wealth of infor­ma­tion avail­able on how to take pic­tures of teeth, and even a lot of infor­ma­tion on how to use it, but I have found lit­tle to aid me in cre­at­ing a smooth, seam­less work­flow that con­nects every­thing.  So.….…I’ve had to fig­ure out a lot on my own.  In pro­fes­sional forums, the same ques­tions that I’ve had to answer are so often asked, it seems there is a need for one place that pro­vides answers to the ques­tions most den­tists have in using dig­i­tal pho­tog­ra­phy.  I hope you find this helpful!

Along the way, my pas­sion for pho­tog­ra­phy grew to the point that I decided to turn pro­fes­sional, and while it’s not some­thing I’ve had the time to really develop over the last cou­ple years, it has been grat­i­fy­ing to see that slowly move for­ward.  As my prac­tice con­tin­ues to mature, I hope to have more time to develop that aspect of my pho­to­graphic pas­sion.  For a lot more exam­ples of my work, includ­ing den­tal, land­scape, por­trait, and other, please visit my web­site, CDPayetPhotography.com.

About the Ban­ner Ads on DentalDigitalPhotography.com

In the inter­ests of full disclosure:

ALL ban­ner ads that you see on my web­site are there because I have signed up as an Affil­i­ate, which means that, YES, I do make a small amount of money if you click on one and then choose to buy some­thing through that ven­dor.  Not a lot, but a small per­cent­age usually.

The rea­son I signed up for each ven­dor, how­ever, is not just because I can make a lit­tle extra cash, it is because I actu­ally use every ven­dor per­son­ally, or because I know them to be a rep­utable ven­dor for den­tists. I am very par­tic­u­lar about the ven­dors, so you can be con­fi­dent that you will receive excel­lent cus­tomer ser­vice and prod­ucts from them if you choose.

Because of the work that goes into adding the exten­sive con­tent found here (and much more will be com­ing, I promise!), I do ask you to con­sider click­ing on any of those links if you’re ready to pur­chase, as that will sup­port this free web­site and keep my wife from get­ting so aggra­vated with me for spend­ing so much time on it.