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Image 10
Day 10 of an Unknown Number
"Image 10"
Today's image was a spec project. I was asked by a potential client if I could shoot a product in a style similar to their sample image. Though I was not paid for it, the shoot took about five minutes. Also, it gave me a reason to shoot something in the studio. We both win!! The sample images supplied all showed products with hard, crisp shadows on white paper. That made the assignment relatively easy to recreate. That is because hard shadows mean.....small light sources!! All I had to do was to position the key light at the "correct" distance to create the quality of shadow I desired. So, I placed a snooted (without grids) speedlight about four or five feet at camera-left, and it created the lovely shadow. If I had brought the light any closer, the shadow would have soft edges, and that was not the assignment. With that said, given the small size of the light source, I knew it would leave unattractive specular highlights on the glass. Specular highlights are simply the direct reflection of the light itself on the subject. I don't know about you, but I don't care for tiny dots of light in my images. Therefore, at the last minute, I brought in a strobe with a long strip light, and moved it in very closely on the same axis as the original speedlight. It delivers that fun swish of light at the bottom of the neck of the bottle. Had I had more time to play around with it, I would have brought the light directly next to the bottle, and it would have supplied a nice, even highlight along the entire bottle. Again, I was not being paid, and......nobody cares, aside from myself. In post, all I had to do was to mask out the bottle from the first image, but use the lovely, sharp shadow. Start to finish, the project probably took about twenty minutes.....but don't tell your client that. Thanks for stopping by for a drink!!
#skyy #vodka #alcohol #foodphotography #drinkphotography #bottle #blue #canon5dmarkIII #canon100macro #canon580exII #paulcbuffinc #paulcbuffeinstein #pocketwizard #stripbank #drink
Image 10
Day 10 of an Unknown Number
"Image 10"
Today's image was a spec project. I was asked by a potential client if I could shoot a product in a style similar to their sample image. Though I was not paid for it, the shoot took about five minutes. Also, it gave me a reason to shoot something in the studio. We both win!! The sample images supplied all showed products with hard, crisp shadows on white paper. That made the assignment relatively easy to recreate. That is because hard shadows mean.....small light sources!! All I had to do was to position the key light at the "correct" distance to create the quality of shadow I desired. So, I placed a snooted (without grids) speedlight about four or five feet at camera-left, and it created the lovely shadow. If I had brought the light any closer, the shadow would have soft edges, and that was not the assignment. With that said, given the small size of the light source, I knew it would leave unattractive specular highlights on the glass. Specular highlights are simply the direct reflection of the light itself on the subject. I don't know about you, but I don't care for tiny dots of light in my images. Therefore, at the last minute, I brought in a strobe with a long strip light, and moved it in very closely on the same axis as the original speedlight. It delivers that fun swish of light at the bottom of the neck of the bottle. Had I had more time to play around with it, I would have brought the light directly next to the bottle, and it would have supplied a nice, even highlight along the entire bottle. Again, I was not being paid, and......nobody cares, aside from myself. In post, all I had to do was to mask out the bottle from the first image, but use the lovely, sharp shadow. Start to finish, the project probably took about twenty minutes.....but don't tell your client that. Thanks for stopping by for a drink!!
#skyy #vodka #alcohol #foodphotography #drinkphotography #bottle #blue #canon5dmarkIII #canon100macro #canon580exII #paulcbuffinc #paulcbuffeinstein #pocketwizard #stripbank #drink