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Playing with the new studio lights... 0
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Playing with the new studio lights...
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Wow Truth that looks pretty cool, I too was wondering if it was a mirror.
Your white background looks great, and still we see the reflection of the bottle at the base, and I can clearly see the entire outline of the bottle including the white nosile, it's not blurred into the white background.
I bet your happy with that
Thanks for sharing Truth...... Skippy
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Elaine
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Elaine Heasley Photography
The lighting was the deal here. IT was the first image I worked on with my new toys: 3 AB800 strobes, an octobox, reflector, white paper backdrop and assorted stands. I had one AB800 in the octobox above and to the left pretty much next to the camera. Another AB800 on a boom above and behind the bottle with a 40 degree grid on it. The third AB800 was behind and below the stool with a backdrop shield that reflected all of that strobes light onto the backdrop.
Getting the lighting dialed in was trial and error but basic concepts apply. The backdrop light was a few stops hotter than the octobox and the hiarlight was adjusted to give just the right amount of fill over the shoulders of the bottle.
Post work was pretty basic. I used a few layer masks to blur the background and reflection. That hid the details and scratches on the SS stool. Then I used the healing brush to further blend the edge of the stool into the blown out white backdrop.
The whole thing was practice for a product shoot I knew I had coming up for my fiancee's salon advertisements. You can see that image in the Whipping Post. I was just trying to get a feel for the set up with the Febreeze bottle. In the WP image I actually used a sheet of clear plexiglass sitting atop a piece of the white background paper because I did not want much of a reflection at all and wanted to make it easier to blend the surface with the background. Studio lighting seems to be a big science project that requires a bit of ingenuity to use whatever is at hand to get the effect you desire. It's frustrating and fun so far.
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