Links/Rants
Equipment
Right now it's a Nikon D810 or Nikon Z7 with various Nikon lenses and flash units, post-processing in Photoshop on a Mac. I also occasionally use a vintage Super Takumar 50 mm ƒ/1.4 lens attached to the camera body with adaptors, which is great fun. I'm not a tech wizard, but if you have specific technical questions I can most likely refer you to someone who knows better than I. If you have general questions about digital photography, I recommend poking around on Wikipedia - there is a lot of very high quality info there, not tied to any particular brainding.
All that being said, the gear is a tool, and knowing how to use it without knowing something about composition, colour, art history etc is like having a car and a license and not knowing where to go, so if you have gear but aren’t getting results you like, I’d start by looking at skills first. And look at lots and lots of good photography. You don’t need a school but a library sure is useful. There are tons of great tutorials online, too.
Stock Photos
Stock photos are available through Fine Art America or Smugmug. Or of course, contact me directly.
Prints
I highly recommend PrintMaker Studio in Vancouver. Top notch printing of anything I’m likely to shoot for you.
I have also has excellent prints from Moon Photo in Seattle and The Lab in Vancouver.
Quite a few of my images are available on demand at FineArtAmerica.
Copyright
The issue of digital copyright and fair use is contentious and we are in the midst of figuring out how we as a culture can deal with it. If someone copies one of my images and uses it for their own enjoyment - desktop background or whatever - that's fine with me. Post it on your personal (not business) tumblr if you like, but don't remove the copyright notice; and if you can't find a copyright notice, write one. Like this: (c) Bill Pusztai 2024. What I want is for people to be able to find me if they'd like to buy images or a shoot.
If you represent a nonprofit or a community group of any kind, write to me and we can most likely find a way for you to do what you want.
If the image is being used in advertising, to adorn a blog posting that is making money via advertising, or any other sort of commercial activity, I want payment. I'm open to other artists using my images as a starting point for their work, but slapping an Instagram filter on it is not good enough, and I will pursue it as copyright infringement. If I find my images on your tumblr/reddit/flickr etc with the copyright removed, the image distorted, or an ugly Instagram filter applied, I will file a DMCA notice. Sorry if that seems like overkill but I'm done wasting my time writing polite letters every time I find someone doing it. And well ... if your online ego is dependent on posting porn? maybe you should try making your own.
https://www.reddit.com/help/useragreement#section_dmca
Facebook and Instagram and all their tentacles (“Meta”)
are a problem. Their Terms of Service explicitly state that they can use, re-use and alter anything you post there. Yes, that's right, ANYTHING - words, pictures, ideas, names, dates. If you post a picture of your face it could conceivably end up in an ad for Depends. So when Joe reposts my work to Facebook, he is nominally giving FB/IG the right to use it, but he doesn't own that, I do, and unless they are paying me, I don't grant FB/IG any rights whatsoever. I don't know what the solution is here, but please be aware of the issue. A workaround for now is to post the image elsewhere and put a link on FB - they don’t yet control the content of external sites.