Photographs and articles by A. Cemal Ekin
I was talking about the public parks in Rhode Island and presented views from two of them in the previous post. This is a continuation of the same theme. Let’s go … This post is dedicated to the memory of our dear neighbor Rick Denoncour who passed away a week ago Monday. His funeral service …
The availability of public parks is a great service provided by the state or the cities. Since Rhode Island has a very long shoreline, some parks offer beach access and great scenery. We have been visiting them in good weather to enjoy the breeze and open vistas. Rocky Point State Park What used to be …
Yesterday, the weather was quite nice after a string of rainy and cold days. Jan was with a friend and I decided to go out and take some photographs. Since both of our Canon R7 cameras are being serviced, I took my infrared camera, a Canon M5, and drove to Providence. Downtown Providence in Infrared …
I have written multiple articles on infrared processing in Lightroom. I am not going to repeat the process again. But, it may be instructive to compare the results coming from different ways of editing them. Pawtuxet in Infrared Once More As you probably guessed, I went to Pawtuxet on a nice day again and photographed …
About the Exhibit I am pleased to share that Art Site Fest selected three of my photographs from the Infrared Earthscapes collection for the Shapes of Living | Living Earth exhibit. As they indicate on their site: Shapes of Living | Project Living Earth was born from a call launched on April 22, 2021, World …
The Village Infrared photography can make a place time-travel! The historic Pawtuxet Village is about two miles from our house and some consider it a travel secret. It straddles two cities, Warwick and Cranston, and the Pawtuxet River which runs into the Pawtuxet Cove. The cove has a marina and is surrounded by very nice …
This is the final installment of the infrared channel swap 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 …
Infrared channel swapping in Lightroom opened new doors for IR photographers. The previous article explained how to achieve two important things in editing infrared frames in Lightroom. The 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 …
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 false-colored infrared images. Although I presented a functioning process to create camera profiles with the …
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. Hot days are great for infrared. But, 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 …
Infrared Camera Loves Sunny Days With the Canon M5 converted for infrared photography, I enjoyed photographing the neighborhood and even drove about 2.5 miles from home to see 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 …
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 four years. Eventually, that collection, Infrared Earthscapes, got published in the LensWork Magazine …
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, but I …
Leaving London to Boston The handicapped traveler service of British Airways was far below par. Although I had requested a wheelchair, at the check-in, they told me 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 …
Light, the essence of photography, has a broad spectrum. Yet we photograph with a narrow sliver of this spectrum that we call the visible light. Photographs captured using the infrared range in the invisible part of the spectrum, present us with views with distinctly different characteristics. (Photographs from this collection made it to LensWork #97 …
I visited Harkins Hall, the main administrative building of Providence College where the executive offices are located. 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 from the second-floor balcony gave interesting views, and I had the infrared …
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. Infrared Neighborhood Walk This evening after supper I took a stroll around the neighborhood, Spring Green Road, Narragansett Parkway, Fair Street, Clear Water Street, to Spring …
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 …
Shapely Beech Tree 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 it again. This post is only about that tree, and what a gorgeous one it is. It has majestic size, graceful proportions, and shape, tremendous presence, and …
With the warming weather and budding trees, the time is ripe for more infrared photographs. The infrared season has started. 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 …
Infrared photography interests me with its surreal-looking landscapes, objects, and people. But all those pale in comparison to IR aerial photography. Topography becomes abstract, clouds and shadows ethereal and elusive, and the scratches man has made on earth seem insignificant. Infrared Earthscapes Majestic Views I have taken many such photographs and shared some in the …
