Photographing Bonsai

bonsaial1

No...The most important tool is whats IN the viewfinder

al

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zen

I was talking about the brain,...but I see what you mean,( I think) a good eye is very important,...but the eye in and of itself can not actually process visual information, or contnemplate composition.
We do use the term "good eye", but then it's not REALLY anything ocular is it?

Unless of course you mean the camera,...in which case, you know as well as I do that cameras don't take pictures any more than hammers design or build houses.
Good glass is very important, especially if you are blowing your images up from 24X36mm up to poster size. But for shooting and sharing images on the web any digital camera with decent glass, and good resolution will produce images as sharp as one will need, so long as you shoot in such a way as to maximize sharpness ie;using a tripod, and ideally the timed delay shutter option, to minimize vibrations.

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bonsaial1

Zen you are as thick as a brick!

I mean whats in the viewfinder. Read: TREE.

A good picture of a crappy tree is still a picture of a crappy tree. The camera is just a means to an end, in the end its the image. A very good photo of a very good tree. Good pictures are not the focus always. The focus should be on photographing good trees. Making sure that whats "in" the viewfinder is worth the effort.

Al

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PatArizona

"...The camera is just a means to an end, in the end its the image. A very good photo of a very good tree..."

Al...EXCEPT...when you are documenting the devellopment of a bonsai...

If I"m wrong...could you please tell me your source of the "...very good tree..." that I could start with...

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zen

AH I see now, you were speaking a more subject specific language, than I could comprehend at the time,...thanks for clearing that up. xD

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~ Alan Watts (1915-1973)

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zen

Al do you have any use for a 2x teleconverter that fits a Nikon(not sure if it's Nikkor or whgat brand it is, I can find out and let you know though) ?

Let me know if you shoot Nikon and don't have one/want one, and we might can wheel and deal,...I need some tools (mostly a pair of concave cutters).

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"Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work."

~ Alan Watts (1915-1973)

http://www.bonsaiswap.com/