Photographs and articles by A. Cemal Ekin
Sotheby’s Photography Auctions I have been following Sotheby’s and other auction houses for photography auctions. They give me a chance to see photographs that I have no chance of seeing. After the auction, I can buy the exhibit catalog on eBay for $10-15. They are printed at high quality with all the relevant information about …
While at the Pawtuxet Bridge taking photographs of the rushing river I experimented for different effects. Here, you will find a series of photographs taken at slow shutter speed to smooth the surface and create fine hair-like wisps where the water is sprayed in many directions. Power, awe, unstoppable, beauty all rolled into one. The …
Some see photography as “finding beautiful things and capturing them.” I see it differently as “seeing things and creating beautiful photographs of them.” To wit, the lowly cabbage, especially with some bruises on it on a market stand, will not appeal to many as it is not “beautiful.” A careful study of the subject, its …
Our trip to Martha’s Vineyard started at the Quonset ferry dock and ended at Oak Bluffs. The catamaran, which I first thought was a single-hull vessel, was smaller than I thought. The line of people waiting to board was formed when we arrived there. Behind us was a family with two children. The young boy …
Kardelen is the queen of the house. She is a beautiful Angora cat with blue eyes, and she is deaf. I mean stone deaf. Kardelen is the name of the flower that pokes its head through the snow in early spring, Snow Drop. The literal translation of Kardelen is “snow poker,” and the cat is …
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 infrared photographs with me. I took a few shots in the parking lot of the supermarket, then I went to school (Providence …
This afternoon Jan and I took photographs of a single calla flower. Setup: Canon 5DCanon 100mm MacroNatural lightTripod mountedCable release Post-processing: Lightroom, Photoshop CS4 Below are three images in both color and monochrome. Conversion to B&W was in Lightroom with split toning. More Experiments I took more photographs of a couple of calla lily blossoms. …
This morning, I saw on John Paul Caponigro’s blog a new post showing Ansel Adams’s Clearing Winter Storm. John Paul also invited people to comment on the image. I decided to write my long-winded comment here, on my site instead. After all, comments are not meant to clutter one’s blog. So, here it goes. Clearing …
I flew to and from Salt Lake City within the last few weeks. I got a window seat to take photographs and found an infinitely variable, ethereal subject, clouds. They are the nice puffy ones that dot the sky and create beautiful shadows down below. The space between them allowed me to see and photograph …
I have been using Adobe Lightroom since it became available as a public beta for Windows. It is a great front-end for Photoshop and much of the work can be done in Lightroom. I like that, the interface is more intuitive and controls more visible. Modified B&W Conversion One of the steps I started doing …
Yesterday, I took some photographs on campus, 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.
What is the difference between going up or coming down? I would like to talk about a photograph I saw and commented on at a photography site I visit when I have time. I found it very interesting both as a photograph and as an example of how we perceive the image content, I asked …
I have issued a folio of photographs, limited to a total of 12 copies. The photographs are selected from a series that I took on the Kozak Plateau, thus the name of the folio. Kozak Plateau Kozak Plateau is in the Aegean region of Turkey and not far from the historic Mt. Ida. The main …
