Photography and Writing by A. Cemal Ekin
The historic Pawtuxet Village is about two miles from our house. 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 houses. The name Pawtuxet comes from the native American Sononoce Pawtuxet tribe that occupied the area, …
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 control midtone information from color to tonal structure. Compare the two images below by moving the slider right and left. Start With Global Adjustments …
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 called a couple of times to see how he was doing, but …
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. How to and Where to Start The …
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 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 …
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. …
