Photographic Instruction Available

Steve's Fine Finish will instruct on how to get the most out of your DSLR.

Classes Available in Artesia, NM:

Photography Introduction (1 session, about 90 minutes) 

$35.00

Prerequisite: Your own SLR or DSLR

1. Basics of Photography
2. Camera Controls
3. Steady as a rock
4. Observe the viewfinder
5. When to over-ride automatic
6. Flash
7. Basic Composition
8. Taking snapshots vs making photos

The Next Level (More advanced sessions, about 1 hr to 90 minutes each) 

$35.00 per session

Prerequisite: Photography Introduction course listed above or a thorough and advanced knowledge of your own camera and photographic basics.

Topics available:

1. The Art of Composition
2. People, Indoors or Out
3. Tricks & Secrets (that aren't really tricky or secretive)
4. Interactive Critique

Or personalize with continuing discussion or instruction on aspects of the art that especially intrigues you. Pre-session assignments with hints and ideas available (based on your special interests). 

E-mail me at stevesfinefinish@gmail.com

OVAC- NEW MEMBER!

Ooh, look at that!

I am now an artist member of the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition.

Check out my listing on OVAC! (click here)

Being recognized as an Oklahoma artist is a great honor and it puts me right in the middle of a very busy and well supported local art scene. Look for announcements here about local art shows and even some in Tulsa, Ardmore,  Bartlesville, or other Oklahoma towns. I'll be posting not just the ones I'll be participating in, but any show that I think my readers may find interesting.

Thank you for your continued support.

Available Photo Art Samples

Here are some samples of Photo Art available:

Eureka Springs Panorama

This is seven vertical pics stitched together. 

Field of view about 140 degrees.

The ink is black - The page is white

Together we learn 
To read and write.

(thanks to Three Dog Night)

We are firmly in the time of digital photography, 

but that doesn't mean that we have to give up on 

some of our favorite old things.

Such as Black and White photography. (B&W) 

Your camera may have a setting for B&W, but I like

to use a photo editing program. Why? Because, just 

like I did with B&W film, I want creative control.

In B&W film photography, we chose the film, the chemicals

for processing, the filters both for shooting and printing,

and often used the Zone System to keep it all in line.

In digital B&W, you want to be able to control how the colors

turn into B&W. PhotoShop and ACDSee allow you to saturate or

desaturate the intensity, contrast, filtering, etc... to end up 

with a final image that matches your mind's eye preconception.

Example:

 Came from this:

Left to the camera's B&W program, the green leaves and the red 

in the ground and the stump would have different contrast values.

I choose my own values and get the pic I previsualized. 

More examples:

Be sure to look up your program's help center online

to know how to use all the tools.

Happy B&W photography! 

Pics of my other line of work.

NW OKC exterior job, July 2011, Before and After 

Harvest Moon

1200mm f/10, 100 ISO, 1/30th @ f/10, tripod, self timer