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Gustave Le Gray - The Great Wave, Sète

What exactly is HDR?

February 10, 2012 by A. Cemal Ekin

High Dynamic Range, HDR is Misunderstood There are millions of photographs floating on the Internet with the indication …

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Single file HDR example

HDR Imaging

October 19, 2009 by A. Cemal Ekin

HDR Imaging has become quite popular. For some, it represents a novelty; for others, creative process; and to me, …

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Motif Number 1

Single File HDR, really?

January 16, 2009 by A. Cemal Ekin

Well, not exactly but perhaps a mini HDR; but a very useful one at that. There are numerous articles, Web tutorials, …

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Layers & Scars of Time

Layers and Scars of Time

October 27, 2021 by A. Cemal Ekin

Well, my last post failed. I hoped for some ideas coming from the visitors, narrowing the selection of photographs I …

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10 - Visions of Utah

Let’s Create a Folio

October 7, 2021 by A. Cemal Ekin

I have created and sold many different folios. I like the small, individual prints as they provide for a more intimate …

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Generations

Generations

February 11, 2021 by A. Cemal Ekin

This project, Generations, has been in the making literally for years. The following pairs of photographs present …

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Wild Thyme Fields, Tenedos, panorama, HDR

It’s About The Light

April 14, 2020 by A. Cemal Ekin

Photos and graphos, light, and writing from Greek gave us the word we use every day. Millions of times. Over time, the …

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Wild Thyme Fields, Tenedos, panorama, HDR

From Many To One, Multiple Exposure Photography

May 5, 2019 by A. Cemal Ekin

Generally, when we take a photograph there is a single scene, one element; and, that is what we expect to see. There …

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Panagia Isodion - Istanbul - A. Cemal Ekin

Architectural Photography – 2

January 23, 2019 by A. Cemal Ekin

As this photograph zooms in on the details of the lead photograph in the previous one, our attention will get closer to …

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All combined in one image

Preserving Mood in Photographs

June 21, 2015 by A. Cemal Ekin

See the Mood One of the neglected, and often violated elements in photography is the mood. Sitting in your living room …

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Lightroom 6 Is Here

Adobe Lightroom 6 Is Out

April 23, 2015 by A. Cemal Ekin

The long-awaited update to Lightroom 6 is finally here. Software updates create anticipation and excitement fueled by …

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Wishes for 2015

Wishes For 2015

January 6, 2015 by A. Cemal Ekin

Wishes are easy to make, sometimes too easy. Yet, we all wish for things and hope that they will come true. In that …

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National Geographic

National Geographic Says …

June 2, 2012 by A. Cemal Ekin

I have been writing about the excessive editing of digital images and how unnecessary these edits are. I even challenged …

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Lightroom 4 Clarity Slider Muddies the Tool

Lightroom 4 Clarity Slider

April 4, 2012 by A. Cemal Ekin

I have been using Lightroom 4 for a while now and have already written extensively on printing-related issues. In this …

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Photoshop CS6 Public Beta

Photoshop CS6 Quick Review

March 22, 2012 by A. Cemal Ekin

Adobe announced the public beta release of the next Photoshop, anyone can download and use the new release until it …

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First Photograph of a Human - Daguerre-1838

On Photography

July 13, 2011 by A. Cemal Ekin

Since William Talbot and Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre almost simultaneously announced their discovery around 1839, …

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LR/Mogrify 2

Photoshop Lightroom Resources

May 22, 2011 by A. Cemal Ekin

Photoshop Lightroom has become a very powerful, almost indispensable tool in photographers’ workflow; and for good …

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Cemal speaking at a photo club

Speaking

October 18, 2010 by A. Cemal Ekin

I enjoy sharing what little I may know about photography, its tradition and history, the art of photography, digital …

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Thyme fields in the sunset

Tenedos, 3: The Thyme Fields

June 30, 2009 by A. Cemal Ekin

As I alluded to a couple of posts before this one, we stumbled upon beautiful fields of thyme between the Aquarium Bays …

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Wild Thyme Fields, Tenedos, panorama, HDR

Manipulated Photographs

August 27, 2006 by A. Cemal Ekin

At a photography Web site that I frequent, I read a series of comments about “manipulated photographs.” One …

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Light - The essence of photography

Splitting Hair for Wider Range

October 22, 2003 by A. Cemal Ekin

Before the advent of high dynamic range (HDR) processing, I used to use the following method to extract a wide dynamic …

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