'Still Life' Reshoots

Using the same method of lighting as in the previous shoot, although using blackboards to direct the light so the the texture of the background isn't evident and also in order to achieve the thin strips of white light, I lit and shot each side of the bottle seperatly and then front lit the label. As I was using a tripod I was able to comp this all together and I am pleased with the resulting image shown above as there is no evidence of texture within the background- the bottle appears from the darkness, as I wanted, and achieves the connotations of mystery and sexuality as well as the suggested ideas derived from my visual research.The strips of light though aren't quite right technically and as you can see i've also clipped the highlights within them. 

After speaking with Adam Mead and Mark Reeves I altered the lighting set up as evidenced above and with the two shoots I was able to technically get the images right and achieve those shapely defining white strips that I wanted. I chose to frame the subject matters closer as the label and bottle neck was what primarily interested me due to the vibrant colours on the label and also as it was the most shapely part of the bottle. Although my preference is still towards the other image's composition and editing process for the label of the bottle. If I had time I would shoot the bottle with the same framing, label editing and the lighting used on the bottle of the neck of the first image, the back ground of the second image and the white strips that define the shape of the last bottle of wine. But I would like to look at different still life products and experiment with other lighting techniques. 

Reshoot of the constructive narrative still life scene was improved dramatically by the introduction of natural window lighting which to some extent gave the pictorial aesthetic I was trying to achieve. I also feel that the tight framing, dark background and placement of the doll to the edge of the frame suggests the sinister aspects of the narrative to the viewer more effectively. In the image with no box the large amounts of dark space connote an unnaturalness to the scene and an eerie atmosphere is evident within the scene, but I also feel the introduction of the open box to the composition adds another dimension to the scene and gives the viewer slightly more information to the narrative.