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Ted NEWS: - Apple Corporation will discontinue their support for this website service in July of 2009 . While visitors will continue to be able to access this site, I will no longer be able to change anything on it. For the latest information about me and my latest photography please visit <http://imagefiction.blogspot.com/> and/or click on link #1 below. - EarthMonster Illustrated the internation ezine for fine art photography selected me as their June O9 featured artist with pictures and a story/bio. - Alienfiction Corporation the distinguished maker of PhotoShop plug-ins selected me as Featured Artist for June 2009 on their corporate website and in their international Email blast. - Approximately 35 of my photos featured/favorited by international RedBubble.com Groups - March 2009 Personal Profile/Interview posted at http://www.redbubble.com/groups/fine-art-composites/forums/4395/topics/38009-my-interview-with-ted-byne - The Canon POTN selected seven of my images for inclusion for 2009 publication in their book of the best photographs of 2008. - Featured Artist on PhotoSig.com - The Canon POTN selected three of my images for inclusion for 2008 publication in their book of the best photographs of 2007. - Show of my work at the Lancaster Historical Preservation Trust broke attendance records. Cool. - Two weeks in Italy travelling from Pompeii to Sienna from first Rome, then Florence THE ILLIOS For as long as I can remember, I've been a photographer. It paid bills in school. Slowly I left the darkrooms behind and realized that now, I no longer make photographs. I make mixed media prints - a kind of supersaturated graphic fiction - and cling to my amateur standing. This is an idiosyncratic collection. Which is cool... because I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. FROM THEN TILL NOW Trained as an economist, during the day I'm a business communicator, edit respected business magazines (www.business2businessonline.com), and othertimes I make images. ARE THESE PHOTOGRAPHS MANIPULATED? Well, duhhhhh! Of course they are enhanced. Like every artist I use a range of techniques to create a final work. They've taken me years to master, and I continue to learn daily. Actually, while photographically based, they are my perceptions of moments. Not sure it's accurate to call them photographs, any more than it's accurate to call a painter, sculptor, novelist, or filmmaker - a journalist. Want scientific or court photography? You've got the wrong gallery. GEAR (as of 7/09): Camera: Canon EOS 40D, Canon EF-S 10-22mm (f3.5-4.5), Canon EFS 17-85mm (f4-5.6), Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Lens, 3 polarizing filters, Canon PowerShot G-10 Computers: • Mac DP G-4, - 5 Terabyte HD Internal/External storage. - Wacom Intuos 2, - Sony 21" Flat, - Spyder2PRO monitor/printer calibration system • 17" MacBookPro, 2.93 GHZ, 8Gigs RAM & 300Gig internal HD • 80 gig iPod as a portable external storage drive/portfolio display device, 500 gig Verbatim portable HD, 320Gig Verbatim portable HD,150Gig Firelite portable HD • HP Photosmart 8750 Printer. • Comcast Cable High Speed • Software: Photoshop CS2/CS3/CS4, Painter 9, various plug ins (inclucing AlienSkin, Lucis, Topaz, and Autp F/X). SKILLS I write, take pix, do some audio and video media, and dabble in website design. TURN ONS Images that reveal a story arc... Or that imply a primal thought... that force the imagination to fill in either side of the captured moment. Images that sing, are poetry, that ROCK! Artists who have developed a metaphorical voice are the most impressive. I'm not looking for accuracy or originality, what I'm after is authenticity. I want to see images that invite me to look through them. Artists who show us things as they aren't/ And, I'm not a monochrome guy. Art without wonder is merely craft. SATURATION For too many years, shaping gray was the only real option for the amateur fine art photographer. Now, with cyber options and tack sharp equipment, creating with color and detail are the challenge. After decades in a B&W wet darkroom, technology has released me, like a child in a candy store, into a cornicopia of color. It's left me entranced with the possibilities of vivid hues which add melody to the lyrics of: shape, form, and texture. Here, everything is augmented by a super-saturated dimension that's as essential to me as other parts of a feeling. AND THE REST as of July 09... See above. Why is there no room anywhere on this template to rave about my wife, Rita? Our friends in Lancaster, New England and everywhere? Our families in Philly, Denmark, and Pittsburgh? Why, there's not even a space to brag about my furry dog Rocco. So... I'll make this the space. |
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