Bonsai photography

[Mmarques]

Hi everyone,
Need a bit of advice on this, my mums got quite a few bonsai trees and she wants me to get some pictures of them, the thing is where do I place them for a nice back ground? They are all in bonsai pots , I've tried taking pictures of them but it just doesn't do anything for me, I don't know where to place them to look good?
Thanks
Marco

 

[Robust]

Check this site out.....

http://www.artofbonsai.org/tutorials/photoguide.php

A full Guide to Photographing Bonsai

 

[Mmarques]

Thanks Luke! Great help, I shall have a rad of this after work

 

[Ceejay]

Cheers Luke. Really useful.

 

[Robust]

I'm happy to help.
I've had to take photos of Bonsai trees for a garden centre and I found that site very useful. Sadly I don't have any of the photos, If I find them I will post them up.

I also took photos of plants and trees and printed them out on A3 paper for different backdrops. Gives a nice bokeh effect behind the Bonsai trees.
Don't go to crazy or your backdrop with be to distracting.

 

[danolive1]

Off to photograph my not so well bonsai.