I do get many questions how excatly I get this photographic quality on more or less all shots.
Well, it took me twenty years to learn how to do bonsai professionaly and it took me twenty years to learn how to do professional photopraphs. Or sort of.
Carl Bergstroem has written an excellent article. This is basically what I do.
See: http://leonia.zoology.washington.edu/bonsai/photography/
(thanks to those who have pointed out the new site to me)
Well, I can reveal one secret. Look at the screens. Make sure the tree is as far AWAY from the backdrop as possible.