'Still Life' Product 1st Shoot- collaborated shoot with Isaac

Lighting Set-up

 

Altered Lighting Set-up

For my first still life product shoot I collaborated with Isaac, again, as I did by coincidence with my first studio lighting portrait shoot, but as it was a subject matter that was notoriously difficult to photograph, due to the reflective and also transparent nature of the material, glass, which forms the wine bottle, it made sense to initially experiment together. The results proved to show that lighting in a similar style to my visual reference images would be a challenge, the white strips of light I produced were visibly much larger and bolder than the intended streamlined shapely slits of white light which defined Jonathan Knowles images. However, I do feel the lighting on the neck of the wine bottle is an aspect of this shoot that worked effectively in the context of this subject matter and will be a feature will be transferred into the revisiting of this subject matter.Use of two soft boxes either side of the bottle was too large of a light source. So for my re-shoot I will utilise blackboards or card over/in front of the soft boxes so that the streaks of light are much thinner and therefore defining. The texture, which is visible in the background and foreground, I also want to eliminate as I want the bottle to appear from the darkness, as this will suggest connotations of mystery and sexuality, juxtaposing well with the aforementioned denotations I suggested of the Knowles images, which also now apply within the context of my work. So I will light each side of the bottle in separate shots, with the modified changes implemented, and as I will be using a tripod this time I will be able to comp the images together. I will then light the front and labels of the image and comp that as well. This should produce the desired replicated lighting technique and ideas I have taken from my visual research.