When I first read the challenge, I had this image in my head. I spent the week trying to think where I could get a bonsai tree. On the last day that I could take photos, I still didn't have a tree, so I built one.
I drilled holes in a stick from a plum tree that I found, and inserted twiggs with small leaves .... And Bonsai!!!!
Took a caserol dish, filled it with sand, and covered it with moss.
The lighting was achieved by Painting with a desktop halogen lamp shielded to limit the lighted area.
The only change here is Levels & sharpen.
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I'm sure others will say that you should have cropped more of the black away, but I think it helps with the concept that the plant is desiring to grow...
Great photo. love the composition and lighting - but there is no size reference to tell me this is any smaller than real life, and that's what the challenge is all about. 4
Nicely isolated within the frame and nice use of negative space to create more of a sense of the scale. Some might wonder how, with nothing else in the frame, it's obvious that your subject is miniaturised but the size of the leaves compared to trunk/ branches and also the style of the container are both very strongly recognisable to any bonsai fan. 9
I was going to enter the same thing...It's real..and a true subject...would have been perfect if the lighting around the bottom of the planter was gone.
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