Workshop – Still-life Bottle 29/01/2019

Photographing a bottle using flashguns

Photographing a bottle of drink using flashguns. First shot, we lit the bottle using just one flashgun. By using white cards as reflectors placed strategically around the bottle, the bottle looks fine. The background is lost in the lack of light.

Second shot, we used a secondary flashgun to light the background separately. This has created the separation between the bottle on table and the background.

Third shot, we placed a piece of white card cut in the shape of the bottle behind the bottle. It’s turned toward the main light so it reflected the light through the bottle to show up the colour of the drink and glass.

Please note :- The second and third shots were tethered, and we forgot to turn off the auto-focus on the computer, and it focussed on the white card instead. So, the bottle is slightly out of focus on the second and third shots.

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