Work, life, and culture in Japan and Asia

This page is a list of important resources for all SLR users, photo artists, and the like. Please bookmark this page (Press: Ctl D or use this button).

These links have been grouped into subjects. If you have found something that is really useful, please contact us.

Copyrighting & Legal Issues

All countries have variations on their laws, so look out for yours. However, there are still a lot of similarities. In the US, you must register your products (including every single photo you intend to use), but in other countries this system is not required (it is too laborious and it probably undermines the whole system).

Acting on copyright infringement

• Visit our page on copyright infringement and see what to do about it.
• Ed Greenburg on PhotoShop User TV.
• Arts Law, Australia: Copyright.

Legal Issues

Basically, in most countries, you can photograph anything, but only if you're in your private property, public area, or viewable from a public area, however, taking photos of people in their bathrooms or in a harassing manner can be illegal. The issue is, what you can do with these pictures. Pictures of logos, advertisements, celebrities, copyrighted things, can be used privately, but for restricted commercial (non-advertising) uses.

• See from about the 14th minute of the Ed Greenburg interview on PhotoShop User TV. Ed is a photographer and copyright lawyer in New York, USA.
• Photographers' Rights.
• Arts Law, Australia; Street Photography rights.

Sharing and learning

Sharing and hosting

• Photo.Net is a great general resource, where your photos can be rated, and occasionally get critiques. They also have a wealth of information going back several generations of cameras (to the pre-digital slr era).
• Digital Dynax is also a great forum for beginners, amateurs, hobbyists and the like. They are a fantastic bunch of people who are happy to help and answer questions on lenses, cameras, flashes, and photography generally.
• Flickr is a trusted free photo hosting website, with many interesting communities.

Learning

• Our How to take photos, How to use your SLR, and our News & Presentations sub-sites.
• Strobist is by far, the most referenced photography blog. He gives great information on how to do anything with your flashes.
• BertStefanni is a fantastic professional photographer. He shows you the behind the scenes view on professional photography, and especially for portrait photography and how he uses light.
• Amazon.Com for some great photography guides and technique books.

Earning Money from Photography

There's two ways to go in stock photography, "microstock" and regular "stock". There's also art, photojournalism, and more. However, you must know that photographers are being exploited, and their products are being looted. Companies like iStock lead the way in destroying the earnings of photographers, so PLEASE BOYCOTT iStock and other microstock agencies, as they rip you off in order to support themselves and their shareholders.

> F9, 1/160, iso400, 75-300mm lens at 200mm.

> F13, 1/20, iso100; 18-70mm lens at 35mm, Cokin P160, and P152.

• Our information page on earning money from photography.
• Photographers' Index, Stock Prices.
• PhotoShelter, for professional stock sales. Customers can download digital images for publishing, and others can buy your images as products, too. You control your prices.
• RedBubble, for artistic and product sales. No digital downloading sales are possible. You manage your own pricing.
• Estimating Fees for photographers, from Photo.Net.
• Editorial Photographer is an essential resource for professional photographers. And EPUK for those in the UK.