Perfume Part Two

So in my previous shoot I shot with a black background, in this shoot however I am going to be shooting on a white background.


My Outcomes

The photograph on the left is from the beginning of this shoot, when I first started shooting the softbox reflections were showing up, I fixed this by taping down a white piece of card over the top of the perfume in a tunnel shape to act as a diffuser and to remove the harsh reflections, this left me with the image on the right where only slight reflections are visible from where the paper has lifted up.

As I was using a 24-105mm lens for this shoot I have decided to get closer to the bottles because then more of the details in the bottle will be visible. I could have still got closer to the bottle however I left some space around the bottle because in many perfume adverts there is text and logo's included on the page.

 This bottle is another glass bottle as many perfumes are, I was worried that the colour of the perfume would become washed out but because of the lighting set up however these photos show the unedited versions. I prefer the bottle with the lid on because the clear spray gets lost on the white background, if I was to use a coloured background then I feel that the photographs without the lid would be better because the lid looks rather clunky on the bottle.

This bottle has a silver lid which was difficult to light properly at first because I did not realise the orange reflection down the centre was the reflection of me, I realised this though and started taking photographs using the capture one software.

I tried combining both the bottle with the box, I used this bottle because I had just bought it recently and kept the box for this project. I think that combining both the box and the perfume helps the viewer identify the brand when going to purchase it.The hand position looks awkward in the second photograph however and this will need more work, it is my hand reaching for the box from behind the camera so I will need to look for another hand in order to be able to do this more effectively.

I have taken some more of this bottle just on it's own, I prefer the bottle on the right where I have shaken it and there are bubbles visible, I am thinking of retouching the unshaken line onto the top of the shaken one so that it is smooth. I also prefer this bottle with the lid on because it balances the top and bottom of the bottle.

 This bottle is another in the "Little Dress" collection available I also prefer this bottle to be shaken with all the bubbles inside. I have the box for this perfume as well and I also tried some combined shots however when I was opening the box I damaged it so they did not work out.

This is the "Avon Instinct" bottle which I had shot in the previous shoot, this lighting set up worked much better than previously. The writing is much more distinguishable in these photographs which is better because the viewer needs to be able to understand what the product is. I have taped the piece of card over the top to act as a diffuser to remove the harsh highlights on the bottle.

I have shot this bottle again with this lighting, I have managed to get rid of the softbox reflections however because of this lighting set up it washed the colours out in the glass section of the bottle. I think to fix this I would need to play with some black reflectors in order to stop as much light hitting the glass section. I also tried again with some shots including the hand, I tried to make it look as though the hand was spraying the bottle, however I couldn't spray the bottle or it would land on the camera lens.

This bottle was also much easier to light in this new set up, I still needed to use a small white reflector to bounce some light into the bottom of the glass however I found that this made the side of the bottle appear washed out.

This bottle is highly reflective and I needed to use some reflectors at the front of the bottle as well as the tunnel shaped reflector over the top of the bottle. I will need to work more on lighting this bottle because in the photograph on the left there is still a reflection of the camera. I tried fixing this by placing a white sheet of paper with a hole in the centre over the camera lens however some of the black from the camera lens was still visible. I also raised the angle of the camera and shot on a downward angle this removed some of the reflections as seen in the right side photograph.

I then removed the lid of the bottle hoping that it would remove the rest of the reflections, it kind of worked all that is visible is the reflection of the lid and the camera over the spritzer. I was using the small mirror as a reflector to bounce some pink lighting back into the bottle, I decided to try standing the bottle on the mirror however this just increased the reflections.

I then tried this bottle again because I wanted to be able to use the mirror successfully in this shoot, I think for it to be successful though I will need a bigger mirror that fills more of the frame.





Set Up


This is the tunnel shaped reflector I had taped to the set up over the top of the bottle, even though it is not fully over the bottle it still worked as a diffuser to remove the harsh highlights from it.