Mimo wrote: Going good Auk
And an offer for free photography course from Clicio is not bad either

I hear you have to take that in Sao Paulo though!

For your picture: Yuor problem is low light. Try outside on an overcast day such as today. Sun always behind you or to your side, and never behind the tree.

Exactly as LB says
Creating a quick photography background is not bad idea too, Harry H. has a photo documenrtation on bonsai4me.com..
Or you can order photographic lights from online chinese stores too - I got 2 softboxes with stands, each with 4 (5500K) light bulbs all for 80 euros and I am loving them.
This way you don´t have to wait outside for good light.

Mimo wrote: Exactly as LB says
Harry H. has a photo documenrtation on bonsai4me.com..

www.growingbonsai.net/taking-pictures-of-bonsai/
:whistle:

Guys! :ohmy: I know the photo sucks, no need to rub it in :blush:

I took it indoors as only there I have a background I can use. It was late, dark and I used my phone.

I will do better next time OK?

Auk wrote: Guys! :ohmy: I know the photo sucks, no need to rub it in :blush:

I took it indoors as only there I have a background I can use. It was late, dark and I used my phone.

I will do better next time OK?

Only if you promise to do so :evil:

No offence Auk, those were just a friendly advices to help your work shine as it deserves

I have made a velvet seamless black background to shoot the bonsai.
If it's overcast or clear, I shoot outside.
If it's too sunny or raining, I take them indoors and I've been using those cheap chinese kits with tripods and two 5500K continuous lighting and soft boxes, just like Mimo's, and added a styrofoam reflector.
All in all, less than €70

This will have to do. Thanks for the tips guys, but photography just isn't my hobby...

WHAT
A
WONDERFUL
BIG
TREE
!!!

Thank you Clicio.

What I like most:
The lower branches had very little foliage. One of them had hardly anything left. The foliage was mostly at the end of the branch. The tree did not do any backbudding (no new buds on the old wood). So... I had to make it look like it did have foliage lower down the branches.

I did this by bending the branch back to the trunk, then use the side branches to get the foliage closer to the trunk and main branch. While the first branch is pretty far away from the trunk and the foliage was a biot far from the branch, using this method I could fill out the empty space and close the gap between foliage and trunk.

Something like t his (yes, I know. I need better drawing tools and a training how to draw. Thanks guys )




So this:


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