TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Sports Photos

• Photos on the sports gallery pages can be downloaded for personal use only.

• These images are downsized and have a watermark so are only useful for social media.

• Full size images without watermarks and prints are available to purchase.

• Non-professional sports clubs and organisations can also download these images to post on their social media, but you're welcome to copies without watermarks for that purpose.

 

Personal Use

• You may use these images for your personal use only.

• You cannot on-sell or give away any image, or use them for any other use including editorial, commercial or advertising purposes without permission.

• Images cannot be significantly altered or adjusted, nor can it be used or altered in any AI software with permission.

• Non-professional sports clubs and organisations can also purchase digital copies or prints. Please note that they cannot be used for any commercial purpose without permission. I take these photos strictly for editorial use and do not have permission from any organisation, club or individual to use any image for commercial purposes. Please email me if you have any doubts.

• I always retain copyright but license individuals to use the images as described above.

 

Editorial Use

• Photos can be purchased for any editorial purpose.

• An image can be used in print publications, on the media company’s website and on their social media pages.

• Photos can be used as many times as required without any additional fees.

• Images cannot be on-sold or given to any other media group, publication, individual, or any other third-party business or organisation.

• A photo credit is usually required (for example Photo: Graeme Bowden).

• I always retain copyright but license editorial organisations to use the photos as described above.

 

Commercial Use

• Commercial means photographs used for commercial or business use. That includes, but not limited to, any commercial advertising or promotional use, commercial websites and social media.

• Sports photos are generally not available for commercial use. However please contact me if you would like to use an image and I will see if I can arrange the necessary permissions. A commercial rate may apply.

 

 

 

MY EDITORIAL POLICY

 

Editorial photography means any image taken for any news media organisation including newspapers, magazines, or any online news or media group. It includes any commissioned work and also my unsolicited freelance editorial & sports photography.

 

• I will not accept payment, nor will I pay to cover an event for any editorial purpose. Note: There can sometimes be a fine line between true editorial and commercial photography. For example I will never accept payment or pay to cover a sports event if the primary purpose is for a news outlet. However it is OK to sell an image after the event. Occasionally I am contracted by a sports organisation to cover a tournament and a payment may be accepted to cover my time and the use of all the photographs (just as a news organisation pays me for the use of an editorial image).

 

• An editorial photograph will not be used for any other purpose (for example any commercial use) without the express permission of anyone appearing in the photograph and, if applicable, the relevant sports organisation. In the case of sports photography, I do give away and sell images to individuals with the condition that they cannot on-sell or give any image to any other person, business or organisation.

 

• Generally, all editorial images are taken from public land and therefore show what any other member of the public could see. Basically, the law in New Zealand is reasonably clear - anyone can take a photo from a public space that may show any other person, however it is illegal to take such a photo if that person would expect their actions to be private. Classic examples include that it is totally wrong and illegal to take a photograph from the street of a person through their bedroom window, or somebody relieving themselves behind a bush in a public park.

 

• I generally avoid taking photographs of children, although I do cover young people’s sports events if asked and it’s appropriate.

 

• I will never digitally alter an editorial photograph. The only changes I will ever make are simple adjustments like cropping, straightening, adjusting exposure, colour balance etc. Some areas of an image may be made darker or lighter. Basically the same sort of adjustments we were able to do back in the darkroom days.