Photography and Writing by A. Cemal Ekin
This is the final installment on infrared channel swapping in Lightroom. This time, we will go through Photoshop and use a channel mixer layer to swap the channels. In the end, we will have a profile that can be used from the camera profiles menu both in Lightroom or in Adobe Camera Raw. The initial …
The previous article explained how to achieve two important things in editing infrared frames in Lightroom. First was, how to shift the temperature scale using Adobe DNG Profile Editor to have a better white balance. That was followed by creating the equivalent of blue and red channel swapping directly in Lightroom using a graduated filter. …
When I first wrote about channel swapping in Lightroom back in 2018, Adobe had recently introduced the export and import of the LUT tables from Photoshop to Adobe Camera Raw (ACR.) It was a new and novel way of achieving the false-colored infrared images. Although I presented a functioning process to create camera profiles with …
The above image may appear to be a regular color photograph. Actually, you are looking at an infrared capture with false colors processed in Lightroom. In fact, there is a multitude of ways to treat an infrared capture as there is no correct color to speak of. A little over three years ago, I wrote …
This post and all the photographs are a long-winded get-well card for my sister Binnaz. Get well soon, Binnaz. Jan and I are sending you our love and best wishes along with these photographs. A little over seven years ago, I took a helicopter ride from Newport. There was no set destination, and my friend …
A few days ago, when the weather seemed a tiny bit better, I accompanied Jim to visit Roger Williams Park in Providence. It was hot but not terribly so, and the humidity seemed tolerable, at least initially. The sky had big puffy clouds, and the trees glowed under infrared light. I sought foliage with big …
The last week or ten days have been very hot and humid. Frequent threats of rain kept the clouds overhead almost all the time. When they were not totally covering the sun and creating a dreary sky, the clouds were very puffy, huge, varied in shape against the blue sky. When the humidity and the …
With the Canon M5 converted for infrared photography, I enjoyed photographing the neighborhood and even drove about 2.5 miles from home to see the Narragansett Bay. From the end of Norwood Avenue in Cranston, I photographed the wind turbines and the splash of small waves. When you look at those water photographs, try to imagine …
I have been doing infrared photography for a while, which started with a Canon G7 point-and-shoot converted for this purpose. With that camera, I took a series of photographs from the window of commercial flights between Providence and Salt Lake City over the course of four years. Eventually, that collection, Infrared Earthscapes, got published in …
Lightroom has had some weaknesses when it came to processing infrared images like channel swap and white balance. The primary problem has been and continues to be the range of white balance options not being wide enough into the blue end of the slider. That has had a fix for quite some time which I …
The handicapped traveler service of British Airways was far below par. Although I had requested a wheelchair, at the check-in, I was asked to go to another place to get help. Go figure! I shuffled there, and I was asked to wait. A little later, someone came with the wheelchair and took me through the …
I was on Providence College campus today and visited Harkins Hall, the main building where the executive offices are. There are some classrooms on a couple of the floors but most of the building is used as the administrative center of the college. The rotunda which is visible from the second-floor balcony gave interesting views …
My new infrared camera has returned from the modifications. It is a Canon EOS T2i which will allow me to use any of my lenses depending on my needs. This evening after supper I took a stroll around the block, Spring Green Road, Narragansett Parkway, Fair Street, Clear Water Street, to Spring Green Road, to …
While I waited for my wife to do her grocery shopping, I took a series of supermarket infrared photographs with the IR-converted Canon G7. My aim was to provide a sense of motion and location in these photographs. The G7 is going to a new owner today and I await the conversion of a Canon …
I posted a photograph of the grand tree near home among the infrared photographs a few days ago. Since then, I went back and photographed the tree again. This post is only about that tree, and what a tree it is. It has majestic size, graceful proportions and shape, tremendous presence, and is hugely photogenic. …
With the warming weather and budding trees, the time is ripe for more infrared photographs. I have been carrying my Canon G7 on sunny days when the infrared energy is high. I took several photographs at school, some vine clinging on to the black metal door of Koffler Hall where my office is. Then, the …
As the print version of the IR Earthscapes publication is getting ready, I have been working to have a digital version available as well. Instead of simply replicating the print magazine on the computer screen, I wanted to create an electronic document that used the attributes of the digital medium. To account for the emitted …
I hinted at a printed version of the photographs presented in the slideshow Infrared Earthscapes. Here is a preview of the printed magazine. It is much abridged but will give an idea of its contents consisting of three sections. You can flip the pages either by dragging the corners or by clicking on the corners. …
Infrared photography interests me with its surreal looking landscapes, objects, and people. But all those pale in comparison to infrared aerial photography. Topography becomes abstract, clouds and shadows ethereal and elusive, and the scratches man has made on earth seem insignificant I have taken many such photographs and shared some in the past. In an …
I carried my Canon G7 to Martha’s Vineyard along with the large format camera to take some infrared photographs. The weather was quite suitable for IR photography with blue skies with many clouds, and green foliage. True to the IR rendering, the sky turns out very dark, the green foliage turns white, and all the …
As the queen of the house, and a fine Angora cat, Kardelen deserved a little more study. Yesterday, I photographed her with my IR camera for enhanced contrast and pale rendering of her pink skin, essentially white-on-white study. The second Kardelen study, in infrared, is below.
The weather is changing, spring seems to be here. It was a great day, 70-degrees, sunny, some (decorative) clouds in the sky. I carried my Canon G7 which has been converted to take IR photographs with me. I took a few shots in the parking lot of the supermarket, then I went to school (Providence …
I flew to and from Salt Lake City within the last few weeks. As I planned, I got a window seat to take photographs; there I found an infinitely variable, ethereal subject. Clouds, the nice puffy ones that dotted the sky created beautiful shadows down below, and through the openings in between them I could …
Yesterday, I took some photographs using my Canon G7, converted to take infrared photographs. The new life on the trees and bushes rendered very nicely as bright white tones, separating them from the dead pieces, bricks, ironworks, and other lifeless substances.
