In dentistry, dental photographs of cases are used in publishing the cases, in archiving them, choosing the color, transferring the information and the images to the laboratory and planning the diagnosis and the treatment, as well as legal evidence. In addition, dental photographs play an important role with x-rays in identification as much as the fingerprints. In recent aesthetic dentistry, transferring standardized dental photographs on a computer is the first step of digital workflow. In terms of a successful career, it is really important for a dentist to keep in the archive the extra-oral and intra-oral photographs taken in appropriate shooting standards before and after the treatment. Post-treatment photographs are supposed to display the changes made by the treatment on the face. This article aims to present the issues that have to be taken into consideration and the necessary information about camera settings in the light of current literature during taking the extra-oral and intra-oral photographs.