Q. Who is Jason
Pickering?
A. Jason is a professional photographic artist. He is also a biologist
with a PhD, an experienced PADI staff diving instructor, a commercial
yacht skipper and a sometime yacht engineer amongst other things.
He spends his time exploring the oceans of the world in his yacht,
Ciao, making photographs of the islands and reefs he visits and
and sharing his findings with others. For more information on Jason
click here to view his biography.
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Q. How do I find a specific photograph of a specific subject?
A. Each photograph stored in the online gallery is key worded and
has a full description embedded digitally into the image file. This
description includes the common name and scientific name of each
animal, plant or coral captured in the photograph, any interesting
behavior they may be exhibiting plus the location of the shoot.
Each photograph also has an associated name (such as brain coral)
plus a filename (such as crw_5342.jpeg).
You can search for any of the words appearing in the description,
name or filename. Simply type your preferred search terms in the
search box located bottom left on each of the gallery web pages.
For example
If you want a photograph of a frogfish - just type the word frogfish
into the search box and press the return key on your keyboard. Any
photographs containing a frogfish will be displayed in your browser.
It's as easy as that.
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Q. How do I buy a print (or photo gift) of the photos I
have seen on the web site?
A. Buying a photo from jasonpickering.com is very easy
and safe using our integrated shopping basket and secure credit
card payment options.
Here is a brief step-by-step guide to get you started.
i. Browse or search the gallery collections to find
the images you want.
ii. Add the photos you want to buy to your shopping basket.
iii. Review your basket and make sure you have made correct photo
product selections, chosen number of each item and delivery method
of choice.
iv. Click "Checkout" and select payment method of choice
You can pay using your credit card via secure connection
to paypal or google
we will process your order and despatch your photo
products within
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Q. Can I get a high resolution version of the photo and
permission to use it?
A. Yes you can.
Contact us by email for a quote based on your usage.
A license to use one of our images is a legal document (text) which
describes the terms of use for an image, normally
including what scope of reproduction is allowed (e.g.. press, advertising,
television) in which geographic area (e.g. Europe or worldwide)
for what period (e.g. 12 months) and with an indication of what
image resolutions (in terms of the total number of pixels) will
be supplied. Copyright is not transferred or sold with any digital
images supplied. Copyright of all the images on the site is and
remains the property of Jason Pickering.
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Q What is Editorial use?
A. Editorial use means publication in magazines, journals,
newspapers or periodicals in conjunction with a story or alongside
the regular written or journalistic content of the publication.
Use with an advertisement within such a publication or for other
advertising use is prohibited.
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Q. What is Ad/Marcom use?
Ad/marcom use means for the use in any printed materials for the
sole purpose of promoting or selling or marketing a product, service,
individual or organisation for any reason including for commercial
gain or for the solicitation of donations or gifts. Use in commercial
products or retail products is prohibited unless specified in the
license. To put it simply you are not granted rights to incorporate
the image into a product that is sold under an ad/marcom license.
NOTE: Multiple standard licenses are required for multiple uses.
For example, if you want to use the image in a brochure and also
in a magazine ad - that is two uses. If you
want to use the image in identical ads in two different magazines
that is also strictly speaking two uses requiring two licenses.
From our point of view it is OK if you simply buy the required number
of licenses for the corresponding number of uses straight off the
website. However, if you want to use an image or images for an extensive
marketing or ad campaign requiring multiple uses contact us for
a quote for one license to cover all the uses in the whole campaign.
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Q. What is Web use?
Web use means use on a single website for a specified term that
will not exceed 12 months in any case. The specific license will
dictate the size of image that can be used and the placement allowed
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Please Email
us for a quote for your specific use.
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Q. Who owns the copyright for these photos?
A. Jason Pickering owns the copyright to all images and
website content.
When you purchase a print or a digital copy of an image file through
the site you are actually buying a license to use that copy of the
image for a specified purpose for a specified length of time and
you do not gain ownership of copyright of the image or photograph.
You are in effect granted limited rights to use the image or photograph
for a specified use and the copyright remains the property of Jason
Pickering.
Prints come with a personal use license, similar to that which is
granted whenever you buy a book, which allows you to view, display
and use the print for your personal use as you might reasonably
expect but which does not allow you to copy duplicate or modify
the print or image in any way by any means or redistribute the print
in any form other than how it was supplied to you. Full terms can
be seen here.
Digital copies of images are sold on the basis of your proposed
use of the image and during the checkout procedure you will be asked
to select a license that most closely applies to that specified
use. The price you pay for the copy of the image that will be sent
to you is determined by the license that you select. The license
will specify the extent to which you can modify reproduce publish
and circulate the image. Other uses outside those specified by your
license are strictly prohibited. In all cases, where any of Jason
Pickering's photographs are reproduced, they must be accompanied
by an acknowledgment line - copyright "insert year of publication"
www.jaspnpickering.com All rights reserved
Digital images are dispatched automatically by email upon completion
of the secure transaction.
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Q. What is Wet Art?
A. Wet Art is a collection of images that have been specially
selected to look great in your house, office or to give as a gift.
They have also been digitally modified so that when printed they
look as if they have already been mounted in a classic black mount
and are ready-to-frame. Each Wet Art image has a white keyline,
black border and legend which names the main subject of the photograph
and. These make ideal gifts.
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Q. How can I commission Jason Pickering?
A. Currently Jason is accepting commissions to photograph specific
species or scenes in the Caribbean. Email
us with your requirements.
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Q. What equipment does Jason Pickering have to take such
stunning photos?
Jason uses several professional quality 35mm SLR cameras by Canon
with digital backs and interchangeable lenses. These cameras are
able to produce large high resolution images. Jason uses a whole
range of lenses in his work but he most often uses the following
lenses: 50mm macro, 100 mm telephoto macro, 8mm circular fisheye,
12-28mm ultra WA zoom, 24-70mmm WA zoom, 70-300mm telephoto zoom
and a very nice 50-500mm ultra-telephoto zoom (especially when used
with a 2x extender). When shooting underwater he uses a 35mm camera
housed in a Sea and Sea underwater housing with flash lighting supplied
by one or two Sea and Sea strobes. Most of Jason's underwater work
is shot with a 50 to 100mm Macro lenses or extreme WA lenses (8mm
fisheye and 12 to 24mm WA zoom).
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Q. Whereabouts have these photos been taken?
A. To view the shoot location for any image on the site
simply navigate to the image and double click the thumbnail. A preview
version of the image will open in your browser window and a full
description of the photograph, including the shoot location, will
be displayed underneath the image.
This full description is embedded digitally into the image under
the IPTC description field.
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