Commercial Photography

       StudioBlu Photography creates and licenses images for editorial, publishing, website and advertising use. The rate for this service varies by your particular usage so please specify which rights are needed when ordering. Commercial accounts will be quoted a fee after the initial consultation. Hourly, half-day and full-day rates are available. Commercial account orders will be burned to a Photo CD and delivered to the client unless otherwise agreed upon. If you prefer, we can create a password-protected website for you to view your images.

       For fast delivery, StudioBlu can email a limited number of .jpg, .tiff or RAW files to commercial accounts only. If your contract specifies a Photo CD, StudioBlu will hand deliver the photographer-selected images within 2-3 days - within a half-hour drive time of our Warwick, N.Y. studio - or to the U.S. Postal Service to be shipped via Priority Mail free of charge. For longer drive times, a delivery fee will apply.

    U.S. Photographic Copyright law in plain language

    Since October 31, 1988, photographs no longer need a copyright notice to have copyright protection. This means any and all images you find on these web pages are copyrighted. The traditional notice - such as Copyright 2007, John DeSanto." or " © 2007 John DeSanto. - is no longer required for copyright protection. Copyright remains with the photographer for his/her lifetime, plus 50 years before entering the public domain.


       The Copyright Act also gives the copyright owner the exclusive right to reproduce or modify their work, and to exclude others from doing so. Copying includes copying or saving their image to your hard drive, or copying to other mediums, such as scanning a photo from a book and turning it into a JPEG file. Modifying a work, say by cropping, coloring, distorting, enlarging, etc. is not a way around this law. Creating a derivative work "or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed or adapted" is an infringement. If you take a copyrighted image without permission, and put it on a web page, you are violating the exclusive right of the copyright owner to display his work. (See 17 U.S.C.A. § 106).

       Please respect the rights of John DeSanto and StudioBlu Photography by seeking permission before using an image.