Photography and Writing by A. Cemal Ekin
Wild Roses on Display Let me tell you about the wild roses in our quiet neighborhood. In this quiet setting, pockets of wilderness covered by uncontrolled growth of ivy, low-growing bushes, and plenty of weeds roam. These pieces of land are protected because a small brook runs through them. And in that wilderness, a wonderful …
As I said, we stayed at Paşa Konağı while in Safranbolu. It was a very nice hotel run by a very friendly couple, Ismail Urgancıoğlu and his family. In addition to showing us great hospitality at Paşa Konağı, they took us around to show us their other mansion, Gökçüoğlu Summer House, and beyond. Judging by …
In the previous post, I presented general views of Safranbolu. This one will focus on one well-restored mansion and its owners. And after that is a short presentation of Cinci Han, an old caravanserai. Let us go in … Zamanlık for Safranbolu While walking on one of the narrow streets, Ergun noticed an interesting sign …
Seventeen years ago, when Jan and I were visiting Turkey we drove to the historic town of Safranbolu. Binnaz and Ergun had arranged everything, and the four of us spent a few days in the time capsule. Back in those days, I did not write articles on my site. It recently occurred to me that …
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 …
Cold weather, snow, ice, and rain have made it impossible to take walks in the neighborhood until today. It was a balmy 40°F, almost 4.5°C. I took a decent length stroll. For me, it meant a tad over a half-mile, almost 900 m. A major accomplishment that took me a little over twenty minutes. A …
We wish you a very happy holiday seasonand a wonderful new year As tiring and challenging as the last two years have been, we try to rise to the challenge and wish that you all are doing the same. Better days are ahead and we need to stay alive to gather again when those days …
Jan and I were included with four photographs each at an exhibit organized and run by a local real estate company, RealPro by the Water Art Gallery in Pawtuxet. A few weeks ago, our friend Jim stopped for a cup of coffee and mention to us that he had visited the new realtor in the …
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 famed director of the MoMA Department of Photography, John Szarkowski articulated five attributes, including the vantage point that made photography an art form. He cites: The thing itself inseparably ties photography to reality. It is always “of something.” The detail emphasizes the inherent nature of photography in capturing a selected detail of an event …
It was my second visit to Stepstone Falls in southern Rhode Island. Thanks to Jim, I saw that remote corner of the state once more about a couple of years ago. Stepstone Falls The Stepstone Falls is quite diminutive in a wooded area. This time, there was much less water and certainly much less color …
Well, my last post failed. I hoped for some ideas coming from the visitors, narrowing the selection of photographs I presented, none came. My presentation must have been confusing. Lesson learned. That said, I have continued the process and created the new folio. Several things changed, or new things got added to complete the finished …
I have created and sold many different folios. I like the small, individual prints as they provide for a more intimate and tactile relationship with the photographs. I got the idea from Brooks Jensen, the editor of the gorgeously printed LensWork Magazine and an excellent photographer. I use ready-made folio covers, and print the title …
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 …
Photography brings people together, gives them a chance to connect and share their love of photography. That’s how I met Larry, a fellow photographer, through the Greater Lynn Photographic Association. Larry’s photography straddles shapes, forms, texture, and leans towards abstract photography. I have visited his site many times and enjoyed his work. He has an …
In most images, midtones carry much of the important information. This is not true for all images, but those are the exceptions. In this post, I will present an approach to us Lightroom local adjustments to control midtone information from color to tonal structure. Compare the two images below by moving the slider right and …
We have visited the junkyard many times and enjoyed the rusty scenery. It has been a long time since we last visited the North Smithfield Auto Recycling, a.k.a. the junkyard. When we were there the last time, Roland, the manager, was going to have a medical leave and we wished him well. After that, I …
This Hot July Was Oppressive Our air conditioner has been on since the beginning of June, and it has kept the house very comfortable. It has been a hot and wet July in Rhode Island. We did not open windows partly to keep the rain out, and partly the heat. On occasion, when I found …
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 …
As we got our double vaccine doses and the weather got better, we are venturing outside more often. As most visitors of this site may know, I am a fair-weather photographer. The improving outdoors makes outings more pleasant for me. And there are additional benefits besides the exercise, which is not one of my favorite …
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 …
