Further 'Still Life' Product Photography

 

Lighting set-ups used for further. 'product', still life shoots

Tried to transfer all the ideas i'd taken from the research I've done into Jonathan Knowles and experimented with different lighting set ups- sometimes a singular light source, sometimes several, but the principal aim as with all product photography was to try to make the products visually enticing to the viewer and make them want to drink and buy the product. With the JD shoot I tried to do slight white streaks of light, a small amount of amber light trickling from the bottom of the bottle to incense the viewer and I also used in the shots a Honeycomb filter over the snoot lighting fixture to create a dappled soft warm tone to the image. A combination of all these components and the use of a dark background creates a charismatic image I feel which charms the viewer to the classy drink connoted by these features. With the Desperados image I lit the background with one orange filter gel and one yellow filter gel which combined together to create the warm toned background and evoke those emotions from the viewer that I suggested in my visual research. I counterbalanced the coloured light fixtures with a white light backlighting (snoot fixture) the bottle which also created the glowing displacement I was trying to achieve, as well, and also highlighted the droplets of water on the subject matter. I really liked the combined intermixing of the coloured filter gels on the background and would like to recreate this scene, maybe with altered colours or more colours, but as well as doing one backlit shot do another shot front lighting the image and then comping the two together (use of a tripod essential) on Photoshop so that the front isn't dark and the colour balance isn't incorrect.