Walter Pall's main blog about bonsai and his work with trees from day to day. Lots of good pictures of good trees and lots of valuable information about bonsai.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
ash in winter
January 207: European ash, Fraxinus excelsior in early training, 55 cm high, two fronts.
Your photo's are really great Walter. Would you of Hanna do an blog article on how you take Photographs of your Bonsai? The style is very relaxing and it would be great to know how it is done.
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Your photo's are really great Walter. Would you of Hanna do an blog article on how you take Photographs of your Bonsai? The style is very relaxing and it would be great to know how it is done.
Thanks
Great words and images as ever Walter. Please keep it up!
Harry
tom,
it does not take too much other than discipline and no compormises:
- good tree, well prepared, cleaned, pot clean etc
- digital camera, preferably DSLR, like I have Nikon D70s
- setting: highest quality and largest picture
- very good lens, like 85/1.8 or 50/1.8 or 1.4
- tripod
- good lighting, if necessary artificial in additkon, often a reflector like a white styropr board is sufficient. Avoid direct flash!
- avoidance of too sharp contrast, not in full sun!
- white balance setting right
- even background, as far away as possible!!!
- good skills with digital photo processing, like Neat, Photoshop.
- framing skil and retouching skills
That's it. Well, I am afraid it takes several years to laern it, just like bonsai. But then it is very easy.
Walter
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