Photography and Writing by A. Cemal Ekin
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 venture 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 things. …
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 …
My scanning project continues with over 1,700 scans. Many are processed in Photoshop, and the originals are kept intact. That is over 3,500 new files and even more memories. As I scan, clean, process, and in many ways relive the moments, I have been thinking about how different it was when we used film. Storage …
Dogs and cats, symbols of arguments and fights, can lead a very peaceful existence together for a long time. Meet Kara and Cuki, pronounce the latter as Djuki. Kara was short for Karabash and Cuki was for Boncuk. Kara was a puppy when Jan and Elif picked her from the local pound. Her looks, with …
In the late 1960s, I had returned to Adana to work at the newly established Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences. Although I was hired as an assistant, as in teaching assistant, little did I know that my job definition would become much broader, and I would work with many people. The Academy, being a …
This project, Generations, has been in the making literally for years. The following pairs of photographs present generations of flowers together in a single pot and now, a single frame. Plants, flowers present good metaphors for life. They grow, give buds, blossom, then fade and die. Some may recall my photographs of the dried orchid …
Our lives have turned upside down in many ways. The recent attempts in Rhode Island to deliver the Covid-19 vaccine are adding new chapters to the saga. Now, private companies have added to the display of highly questionable logic. Well, the same subject, but this time there will be a dozen images as a tribute …
Aberdeen Avenue runs perpendicular to our street. I can see it through the window from where I usually sit. It meets Danforth Street at the other end and continues into a short dead end. Most of my walks in that direction start on Aberdeen Ave., and I might take a right or a left on …
Photography is about seeing with the mind’s eye. Our cameras merely record that idea to share it with others. And we all have a different way of seeing. When seeing becomes a profession like that of photojournalists, it becomes another very important tool in their arsenal. Steve Szydlowski is one such photographer, a photojournalist. I …
Yes, it can be habit-forming! Once you start moving your camera during a slow-shutter exposure and see the emerging colors and shapes, you will want to do it again. And, again, … Of course, the colorful leaves on the trees and on the ground also attract the attention of the camera as it tries to …
Fall is here. I think! In many ways, it has been a late and slow arrival. The temperatures have been very comfortable, even uncomfortably warm at times. Some rain and, of course, the virus collectively limited our outings to rare car drives and more frequent walks in the neighborhood. That last bit is far more …
Reha's most recent book, Mimarlık Fotoğrafı (Architectural Photography) has been in progress for quite a few years and was just recently published. It is an excellent read on the intricacies of this genre of photography with many photographs from his long career.
The long hot summer started to fade around mid-August. The temperature dropped, lower humidity, more breeze in the air made a few more short walks possible for me. I enjoyed looking in all directions, including up and down to see interesting subjects, from a dove (or a pigeon, I cannot tell them apart) sitting high …
If you are a regular visitor to this site, you will likely remember that I enjoy looking at vintage photographs. And, photo auctions at different auction houses offer all of us rare opportunities to see them. I have just learned that Heritage Auctions is having a new auction coming up from an e-mail announcement. The …
Prix de la Photographie, Paris, Px3 runs prestigious juried shows. Some years ago, I entered one and found that I won an honorable mention five years later after I accidentally stumbled on my photographs on their site. Earlier this year, I noticed their new call and encouraged Jan to submit some of her abstract photographs. …
Harris Avenue runs by the rail tracks in Providence. It has very little traffic and even in the days of Covid-19, it is a reasonably safe place to visit. Jan and I were the only pedestrians on the street and very few cars went by while we photographed the same wall once more. Some faces …
On January 19, 2012, I received an e-mail from my friend Jennifer Davis, a former ballerina. I had asked Jen to look at a few photographs I took of dried orchid blossoms to see if she could find a few dancers who could strike poses inspired by them. She was by then a physical therapist …
July is ending today. It has been a very hot and humid month. Our discipline in maintaining social distance and wearing our masks whenever we outside continue. It has become quite habitual, we keep busy at home and masks are an extension of us now. The weather has not allowed me to go out even …
Tom Reaume contacted me a while back with an e-mail message. He said that I covered most bases, which I took to refer to an article I wrote on abstract photography. It turned out to be correct. I did not know Tom, and still don’t know him. But I visited his Web site which consisted …
When we were living in Adana, many ancient historic places were a day trip away. We could go west or east and stop at different places to see the remnants of times long gone. In this article, I would like to take you to a place on the Taurus (Toros) Mountains, above the small town …
