Photographs and articles by A. Cemal Ekin
Most of us would like to avoid camera movement, most of the time. A steady camera helps to record a sharp image free from artifacts of motion like smears and fuzzy edges. However, if you have not tried intentional camera movement (ICM), you should give it a shot. What is Intentional Camera Movement With intentional …
With a little help from Photoshop that is. If you are using Lightroom, you have Photoshop included in your subscription. And you do not need to know anything about editing images in Photoshop. You will make a couple of menu choices and save the image as a PSD file. In many cases, cameras will nail …
I wrote about my ongoing scanning of old photographs and some basic strategies in case you were considering a similar project. This post will address one specific issue, color cast removal using Photoshop. I will provide some examples to show you that it can work for a wide range of images. The color cast removal …
Color in Supermarket That Is The title is a little misnomer because the place I refer to is a supermarket. Specifically, it is Dave’s Marketplace where we do our grocery shopping every 7-10 days. Jan does the shopping and I either sit and enjoy a cup of Dave’s coffee or take a nap in the …
(Fair warning, long post but worth every word you read!) Your ColorChecker Passport, I mean. Many photographers purchased this very useful piece of equipment but have yet to use it. They probably carry it in their gear bag hoping one day it will suddenly make sense and they will become devoted users of it. Alas, …
And a fix! Read on… ColorChecker Passport Is Helpful I have been using my ColorChecker Passport for quite a while, and until now the software has not failed me. I wanted to calibrate my camera for a particular light and followed the regular procedure: Take a photograph of the ColorChecker Passport Import to Lightroom Right-click, …
This is a special post to wish my friend Ergun, and my wife Jan happy birthday. Junk Colors Over Time A week ago, on a nice fall day, I revisited the junkyard in North Smithfield, North Smithfield Auto Recycling. It was still filled with dead cars which are piled 4-5 high at some places and …
Opening photograph, Copyright Linde Waidhofer I visited a Web site based on what I read on John Paul Caponigro’s blog. The site is maintained by and features the works of Linde Waidhofer, Western Eye Photography. You will enjoy seeing her work as she seems to focus on a subject and explore that in detail. In …
X-Rite Passport ColorChecker has been helping me for a while now and I am pleased with its performance as a color-managed workflow tool. I use it indoors or outside shoots and can quickly balance the white value and apply a calibrated camera profile to the images. The results are richer and truer colors. So far, …
Smart Shoot Until Photoshop enters the scene, a girl’s best friend is a smart shoot session. In the excitement of the shoot and technical pressures, one of the most important steps gets the short shrift: White Balance Shot. It is so easy to do and it saves so much time, later on, I cannot overemphasize …
I am amazed that many photographers, far too many of them work on a monitor with no calibration, no profiling, and get surprised when they do not achieve the expected colors from their prints. I have made quite a few presentations on digital workflow and have been preaching the importance of color management starting with …
I have been working on a presentation that I will make in a few weeks about color and color photography. I have read many books, visited many Web sites, and the last book I have been reading by Wittgenstein1 prompted me to ask a series of questions in my exploration of the idea of “color.” …
