Amelia Wysocki (AmeliaWysocki)

My name is Amelia Wysocki. I am a proud geek and nerd.

My passions include portrait photography, photo retouching, photo manipulation, logo design, advertisement design, writing articles, and promoting creative talent, all of which I am highly proficient at.

I run two small businesses.

My photography business is Buffalo NY Portraits by Amelia Wysocki. I began photography in January of 1995 with a Mustek MDC 800. A terrible camera that I made the best of. I was only 13 then. I started working with anyone willing to be photographed until I felt I had become good enough to build an online portfolio. I started off with One Model Place, Model Mayhem, and deviantART - back when Scott Jackoff still ran things. I've worked with roughly 300 people since then and had some very interesting experiences, both wonderful and truly horrible, but I learned from all of them, which is a good thing. However, before I ever began photography, I was a photo manipulation artist. This is when you take a photo and transform it into art using software such as Adobe Photoshop. I was really good. Of course, this was years before this particular medium of art became mainstream and expensive tablets were used to include far photo-realistic detail. I got into photography simply because I grew tired of using stock and donated photos to create my art. I wanted to transform my own photos.

I've been featured in magazines including LA Weekly, NUVU, Ellements, Elegant, Solis, Surreal, Rebel, 17:23, Horizont, and many others. Also, I have earned noteworthy awards from ViewBug, Digital Pro Magazine, and Expertise.com. As a rule, I don't personally submit my work for online contests anymore since most of them are based on popularity votes rather than how people feel about the work itself.

For more about me, go to www.facebook.com/ameliawysockiprofile