Taking pictures

[jkd2572]

Im very bad a taking pic of my trees, as anyone can tell from my postings. What's the best back ground color to use? Black or white? I'm thinking black, but then again I take bad pics.

 

[Victrinia Ridgeway]

White is excellent as a contrast to the trees... black is better if you want to be more forgiving to the subject. I do both, depends on what and why I'm shooting.

 

[jk_lewis]

White is likely to mess up the camera's exposure meter. The result, often, is a silhouette of your tree.

I find that a pastel blue, gray, or pale yellow works well.

 

[Gene Deci]

I often use an old sheet of drywall which is a light gray. Most of my better pictures where taken using it but it does not alsways work. Lighting is a big issue.

 

[jkd2572]

And that I use my ****** out of laziness and speed to get posted.... Thanks for the info everyone.

 

[jkd2572]

That was my fruit phone that seems to be blocked on here.

 

[Victrinia Ridgeway]

White is likely to mess up the camera's exposure meter. The result, often, is a silhouette of your tree.

I find that a pastel blue, gray, or pale yellow works well.

All very true... gray or yellow I enjoy more... for whatever reason, blue just does nothing for me with trees. Though your mame is very sweet.

I'm used to shooting with a camera set up that does well with white or pretty much anything. Which our fruit phone friend likely does not have.

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[davetree]

Jeremy how do you post your pics from that phone to bonsainut ? Thx.

 

[jkd2572]

i have not figured out how yet. i read forums and do generally everything on the internet on either my phone or fruit tablet. I take the pictures. email them to my email account. Save them on my home computer or work laptop then upload them. i would give anything to upload from my fruit tablet to this site.

 

[grouper52]

You may enjoy my tutorial.

http://www.bonsaisite.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16182

 

[davetree]

Jkd - that is the rub - as far as I know you can't download photos from your special phone directly to b-nut. I heard that an update was coming so keeping my fingers crossed. Let me know if you hear anything.

 

[lordy]

be careful with shadows. Shooting with a flash or other light source too close to the background will possibly cause shadows. Nothing worse than trying to figure out what are branches and what are shadows of branches.
get close enough to the tree to nearly fill the viewfinder. Position your view roughly from the front of the tree, slightly above the level of the rim of the pot. Be very steady and slowly push the button.
When you upload them, preferably send them to an online photo hosting service (many are free like Photobucket) then paste a link of photos there in your post on BNut, then they might show up large enough to see.
Now let's see those trees.

 

[Ang3lfir3]

i would give anything to upload from my fruit tablet to this site.

use photobucket and the appropriate app.... http://photobucket.com/mobile/apps


problem solved?

 

[jkd2572]

I downloaded photo bucket. When I cut and paste the URL. Bonsai nut says its invalid.

 

[Ang3lfir3]

make sure you are using the BBcode link .....