Photography and Writing by A. Cemal Ekin
I have made a series of presentations on this topic at area photography clubs, from Connecticut to Maine. After the first presentation, I connected with Red River Paper who sponsored the rest of the presentations. A few years back, when I made the presentation at the Photographic Society of Rhode Island I decided to have …
How is that for a bold statement! But it may very well be true, even if you do it regularly on a schedule. Display calibration and profiling is a must for all digital photographers. There is no escaping that if you want to produce an accurate representation of your work not only on your monitor …
In this final post about split sharpening I will provide a method of sharpening lighten and darken components of the Unsharp Mask in a way that will allow for changing all the parameters even after multiple saves, edits, etc. (Part 1 and Part 2) Of course, in most instances sharpening will be the last step …
In the previous post in this series, I explained how to separate a sharpened layer into separate lighten and darken components to mask each separately and adjust their opacity. This would allow greater control than keeping the sharpened layer as a unit. In this post, I will show you even a better split sharpening approach …
Towards the end of every year shelves at bookstores, drugstores, and many other places get filled with calendars. Calendars of different sizes, shapes, colors, but not many photographers have a calendar featuring their work. In this guest blog, I will share with you the necessary tools to make a calendar featuring your own work and …
Sharpening digitally captured images in Photoshop, or any other editing software is unavoidable because of the softness introduced in the digitizing process, no matter how good the capture device may be. When we digitally photograph the continuous tone real world, we force the view to be broken into pixels. This brings with it the potential …
I have just returned from the 68th annual conference of NECCC, New England Camera Club Council. It was an intense two-and-a-half-day affair packed with interesting programs, vendor displays, equipment trials, enjoyable conversation; in short, a highly enjoyable time. This post is about my NECCC impressions. Ran a Pre-conference Workshop I started the weekend with a …
I have always associated olive oil with the Aegean town of Ayvalik. When I was a child, my mother would buy some brand of Ayvalik olive oil, but Kirlangic has been the dominant olive oil brand name etched in my mind. Although I had a rough idea about what olive trees might look like, my …
I am pleased to inform the visitors and followers that printed versions of the free eMags are available for purchase. You will find them in the Bound Publications section of the store, or you can purchase them from MagCloud. They present very different sensibilities and collections of photographs. I have carefully selected the photographs and …
In two earlier posts, I pointed to a post on MagCloud then added some points that will allow you to finesse the best results from the Lightroom to produce a great-looking printed magazine. Those posts were about the square formats supported by MagCloud. There is still no direct method to produce standard size, 8.5″ x …
In a previous post, I pointed to the MagCloud blog that presented a nice workflow to publish PDF files from Lightroom 4. In this post, I will elaborate a little more on using the existing square templates and try to provide a few fine points of publishing on MagCloud that I have discovered through trial …
I have been a fan of the MagCloud publishing platform for the last several years since two students of mine published the PSRI Focus magazine. Since then, I have published close to a dozen magazines and experimented with their new single sheet format. Recently I read on the MagCloud blog that Lightroom 4 Book module …
Of the millions of photographs taken, only a few get printed; that’s too bad. To me, a photograph becomes a photograph when it is printed. Until then, it is a promise. I normally print my photographs on my Epson 4880, which produces excellent prints. However, for some special printing needs, I use a local lab …
I wrote in an earlier post about the printing issues in Lightroom 4. Since then, I have run a series of tests and can say with reasonable certainty that the print engine in Lightroom 4 needs some repair. I realize that there is now a print adjustment option, but that should not be an excuse …
Update: New tests I have run conclusively show the printing issue in Lightroom 4. A few days ago, I printed a photograph from Lightroom 4 (LR4) that came out with a magenta/red cast. Accounting for the possibility of clogged nozzles in the printer, I printed a nozzle check pattern, and everything looked fine. I printed …
I try to do most of my printing myself. I enjoy the process as part of the full creative control, and I can have the print right away. But there are times when I need to use outside printing services when I want either a paper choice that is not available on my Epson 4880 …
I have just published the selected photographs from the Newport-Westport helicopter ride in a special layout magazine. Each printed copy will yield two identical copies with a simple guillotine cut at a printing house. Each will be approximately 5.25″ x 8.25″ and will open in the landscape orientation, bound on the short side. There are …
As interesting as this service was, for some reason it ceased to exist. I am keeping the post for a record of what was. Writing on the Web is quite different. The medium is expandable, it accommodates different types of content like video or music, it has formatting challenges, and so on. But at times …
See the November 2014 addendum at the end if your version is missing this feature Photoshop has many tricks, but automatically adjusting for the actual screen PPI (pixels per inch) to display accurate print dimensions is not one of them. You need to train the old dog for this new trick. It is quite straightforward, …
This is part 2 of a 2-part series on publishing magazines at MagCloud. If you have not read part 1 please review that first, and review the recommended post before continuing. See the updated soft-proof profile post before proceeding. (8/8/2011) In part one of this series I tried to explain the impact of the binding …
This is going to be a two-part series. Before getting into the second part, I strongly recommend that you read and study my Printing Workflow presentation as it details how to accomplish some of the steps in reasonable detail. Although there are a couple of PDF documents for printing, they do not show some of …
I hinted at a printed version of the photographs presented in the slideshow Infrared Earthscapes. Here is a preview of the printed magazine. It is much abridged but will give an idea of its contents consisting of three sections. You can flip the pages either by dragging the corners or by clicking on the corners. …
If you have visited this site a few times you probably know about my experience in the dome of Hagia Sophia. I have written a few posts about it, presented photographs and videos, issued a limited edition folio, and had three photography exhibits featuring the unseen corners of the Great Church. In my continuing efforts …
Mac Holbert is one of the digital printing pioneers and gurus. I received an e-mail from him today asking for a simple support by voting on a project proposal at Pepsi Web site. Teaming with other imaging heavyweights; Stanley R. Smith, J. Paul Getty Museum, Henry Wilhelm, Wilhelm Imaging Research, and others; they founded The …
