• Skip to main content
  • Skip to header right navigation
  • Skip to site footer

Kept Light Photography

Photographs and articles by A. Cemal Ekin

  • Home
  • Articles
    • All Articles
    • List of Topics
    • Foundations
    • Genre »
      • Abstract
      • Architecture
      • Infrared
      • Landscape
      • Monochrome
      • Nature
      • Still Life
      • Street Photography
      • Travel
    • Color Management
    • Computer
    • Ballet
    • Exhibits & Publications
    • Family Photographs
    • Gear
    • Lightroom
    • Photographers
    • Photography
    • Photoshop
    • Rhode Island
    • Neighborhood
    • WordPress
  • Portfolios
    • About Portfolios
    • Exhibits, Ballet, Publications
    • Selected Bodies of Work
    • All Portfolios
  • Purchase
  • Achievements
  • Workshops
    • Digital Printing Workflow
    • Private Mentoring Sessions
    • Speaking
  • About
    • Kept Light
    • Origins
    • A. Cemal Ekin
    • Subscribe to Updates
    • Privacy Policy
    • Contact
With masked adjustments

Kept Light

My photographs are the remnants of light
kept in my camera,
Kept Light

Kept Light Photography

Recent Articles


With masked adjustments

Luminance Range Mask

December 31, 2022
First of all a happy, healthy, and productive new year to all. Be well, and stay …
Read moreLuminance Range Mask
Happy Holidays. Ice abstract by Jan Ekin

Happy Holidays 2022

December 12, 2022
Happy Holidays &A Happy New Year As we come to the end of 2022, Jan and I wish you …
Read moreHappy Holidays 2022
High surf at Beavertail Lighthouse

Parks, Neighborhood, University Orthopedics

November 18, 2022
The weather is changing. We are definitely in the fall, and at times it feels like winter. …
Read moreParks, Neighborhood, University Orthopedics
See All

Foundations Readings


First Photograph of a Human - Daguerre-1838

On Photography

July 13, 2011
Conversations with a wall

Artistic Need Not Mean Smeared Colors Only

August 29, 2010
Horses Before Stand - Degas

Painterly? No, thanks!

February 26, 2010
See All

Welcome to Kept Light Photography

Welcome to Kept Light Photography. This site is the result of more than two decades of writing, discussing, analyzing, and presenting content about photography. As you can find elsewhere on this site under the About menu block, I have been involved in photography for over six decades, had many exhibits, gave birth to a ballet, ran workshops, and made presentations.

You will find close to seven hundred articles on this site on various aspects of this art form. Some are technical, some theoretical, and a few on general subject matters. I hope you enjoy your visit and come back again to explore the rich content hidden under a simple facade.

The blocks below may provide a guide to the recent articles as well as what I consider to be foundation articles. They focus on the nature of the photographic art form and may offer ways of seeing things as well as practicing photography.

Landscape Photography


Stepstone Falls, Nature drips colors onto its canvas

Stepstone Falls 2022

November 2, 2022
We took another ride to see the Stepstone Falls, the small waterfalls where Falls River …
Read moreStepstone Falls 2022
Infrared Earthscapes

An Exhibit in Italy

November 25, 2021
About the Exhibit I am pleased to share that Art Site Fest selected three of my …
Read moreAn Exhibit in Italy
Stepstone Falls, RI

Stepstone Falls Revisited

November 4, 2021
It was my second visit to Stepstone Falls in southern Rhode Island. Thanks to Jim, I saw …
Read moreStepstone Falls Revisited
See All

On Lightroom


I Give you the Moon

A New Infrared Camera: Canon M5

April 20, 2018
Channel swap in Lightroom

Infrared Channel Swapping in Lightroom

April 13, 2018
Original with minimal standard adjustments

Lightroom Local Adjustments

February 7, 2018
See All

Subscribe to New Post Updates

Consider subscribing to new post updates, you can unsubscribe instantly anytime you want.

Visit Subscribe Page

Visit Subscribe Page

Kept Light Photography

New Post Updates

Consider subscribing to new post updates. You can unsubscribe instantly anytime you want. You will only receive a short e-mail when a new post is published.

Visit Subscribe Page

Privacy Policy

The Privacy Policy mainly addresses the concerns that may be related to the platform and its technology. We do not collect or share any information about the visitors.

Copyright Information

All photographs and writing are:
Copyright © 2023 A. Cemal Ekin · Kept Light Photography. All rights reserved. No work may be used for any purpose without prior written permission.

Contact me for more information.

Copyright © 2023 · A. Cemal Ekin · All Rights Reserved