Photographing your tree - studio style

[Anthony]

Just a comment,

when Oil Paintings based on observations and drawings from life are photographed,
they give real trouble getting their 3d effect in the photo image.
Were as paintings based on photographs do just fine, especially if imaged at the
original size of the photo.

The camera has but one eye.

Now imagine if you base your trees on 3d sculpture.
Or just do i-phone shots.
Boggles the mind.
Good Day
Anthony

 

[Starfox]

This is where a bit of digital trickery can help out in photographs, why not give your camera many eyes?

Focus stacking can give you so much more depth to your subjects, I have not tried it on trees as yet but I see no reason why you could not apply it here as well.
Basically you just take many shots of the same tree but in between every photo just re adjust the focus so it concentrates on different areas of depth until you have photographed the whole tree covering all it's focal points.

Then you will need some image editing software to combine the images all into one and if all goes well you will have a whole tree completely in focus from front to back.

Funny I was looking for a brief description online and the first one I looked at was applying this method to a wire bonsai.
https://photographylife.com/how-to-focus-stack-images

If nothing else it can add a new dimension to your photos.