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Ted Byrne trbyrne@mac.com | |
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Ted NEWS: - The Canon POTN 2008 selected seven of my images for inclusion for Fall publication - Four RedBubble.com groups have featured my works - Featured Artist on PhotoSig.com - The Canon POTN 2007 selected three of my images for inclusion for Fall publication. - Show of my work at the Lancaster Historical Preservation Trust was wonderfully attended. 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: 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 Computers: • Mac DP G-4, - 2.75 Terabyte HD Internal/External storage, - Wacom Intuos 2, - Sony 21" Flat, - Spyder2PRO monitor/printer calibration system • 17" MacBookPro/4Gigs & 200Gig internal HD • 80 gig iPod as a portable external storage drive/portfolio display device, 320Gig Verbatim Portable HD, 150Gig Firelite Portable HD HP Photosmart 8750 Printer. Comcast Cable High Speed Software: Photoshop CS2/CS3, Painter 9, various plug ins. 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. 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 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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