Q. Who is Jason
Pickering?
A. Jason is a professional underwater photographic artist. He is
also an experienced PADI staff instructor and a commercial yacht
skipper. He spends his time exploring the oceans of the world in
his yacht, Ciao, recording the reefs and their inhabitants, 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 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 behaviour 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
quicksearch box which is located underneath the menu bar at the
top right hand corner of each gallery webpage and most other webpages.
For example
If you want a photograph of a frogfish - just
type the word frogfish into the quicksearch 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 photogift) of the photos I
have seen on the website?
A. Buying a photo from jasonpickering.com is very easy
and safe using our Printbutton based secure online ordering system.
Here is a brief step-by-step guide to get you started.
i. Browse or search the public gallery to find the
images you want.
ii. Select the images you want by clicking on the "buy this
photo" link under the image thumbnail.
iii. Click the “View Basket” link
to view all the pictures you have added to your shopping basket
so far.
iv. Click "Checkout" to enter your credit card details
and finally confirm the order.
The actual printing of your photographs is done
on behalf of jasonpickering.com by another British company called
photobox. You may notice that you have been transfered to their
secure webserver during the order process. This is normal. jasonpickering.com
and photobox work very closely to make sure you get the very best
quality prints possible.
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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 (eg. press, advertising,
television) in which geographic area (eg Europe or worldwide) for
what period (eg 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.
Q. How do I select a specific license for a single photo
/ multiple photos?
A. Thats easy
i. Select the thumbnails of all the photograph(s) you want to license
for your specific use.
ii. Go to the drop down menus at the top of the page and select
the license that best describes your use.
iii. Add the selected photos and the license to your lightbox.
iv. Each photo in your lightbox should have a copy of the license
associated with it.
v. The total cost will be the price of the license x number of photos
you have chosen with that license.
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Q. How do I select different licenses for several photos?
A. That's just as easy as the previous example but remember
you can only select one license at a time to add to your lightbox.
So:-
i. Select the first license from the drop down menu and then each
photograph you want to use in the way described in that license.
ii. Add all these photos and the first license to your lightbox.
iii. Select the second license and choose all the photos that you
want to use with that license.
iv. Add all the second lot of photos and license to your lightbox.
v. If you look at your lightbox now - you will see that some photos
have the first license and some have the second. Take a moment to
check that each photo is associated with the correct license.
My use is not included in your online licenses
Please do not hesitate to request a specific quote for your intended
use by email. We are more than happy to help our clients with their
requirements. We plan to increase the number and therefore scope
of the licenses offered online as our e-commerce software is further
refined. We would appreciate your help in this matter and any thoughts
you have about further reducing the administration re. image licensing
would be gratefully received.
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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 despatched 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 professional quality 35mm SLR cameras by Canon with digital
backs and interchangeable lenses. These cameras are housed in a
Sea and Sea underwater housings and lighting is supplied by one
or two Sea and Sea strobes. Jason uses various lenses but most of
his underwater work is shot with 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 embeded digitally into the image under
the IPTC description field.
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Q. Why do the flash galleries
take so long to load?
A. The flash galleries contain
large files and a lot of other data your browser needs to view the
photos. The speed of download is directly related to the speed of
your internet connection. It can take several minutes for a flash
movie to load with a dial up modem (56K) or cable/dsl connection
on a slow internet day! Full broadband (T1 -T3 or higher) connections
are better.
We use broadband WiFi and sometimes its
fast, sometimes its slow! Even the internet
can have a bad hair day! Remember,
once you have downloaded the movie it will run at full speed and
if browser caching is turned on things will download much quicker
the 2nd time.
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Q. Is
there any way to speed to loading of flash galleries
The best way to ensure
fast download speeds is to get a fater internet connedction, however,
there are a couple of things you can try. Try clicking the
link then doing something else while the file loads! Sounds
stupid but it works. Open another browser window
to continue browsing (ctrl N or cmd N), make a cup of coffee or
write an email - the options are endless. The file will eventually
load. Alternatively, try reducing the
size of your browser window (left click, hold and drag @ lower right
corner of window) or even reducing the resolution of your screen
display ( to 800x600). Some flash movies will choose to download
smaller files at smaller browser sizes or screen resolutions.
Our flash Galleries can do this
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Q. Is there another way to view your photos
without using flash galleries? Yes
there is. We try to offer at least 2 different ways to view our
images online. Go back to the gallery page and look for the links
to the indivudual collections. We have optimised the viewing experience
for those with a slowish internet connection by by dividing the
gallery into 7 underwater and 8 land photography collections.
Smaller images and html based coding allow us to
keep download times down to a minimum.
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