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[benjamieson]

Playing around with dark field lighting the other night. Being a wedding photog normally, this kind of stuff is all pretty new to me, but I had fun with it!

Set up involved a softbox directly behind the bottle, then blocked with a piece of black card, leaving only the sides showing. Flash on full power (580EXII).

a second flash (430EX) on 1/64 power and gridded with the narrowest of the two Honl grids was used to drop a small amount of light onto the label.

Post involved a bit of burning n the background in Aperture and extending the canvas on the right in Photoshop.

I would have liked to have more light wrapping round the bottle edges, but have no idea how to do this.

Advice for the no-doubt imminent re-shoot welcome, along with any tips you can give on shooting glass bottles in general - they're a bugger!

Thanks All

[i speak in math]

Instead of back-lighting the bottle, try placing two flashes behind and 45 degrees to the sides. This will give you that wrap you are looking for. You will want strip style light sources that are taller than the bottle but skinny.

[benjamieson]

Originally Posted by i speak in math

Instead of back-lighting the bottle, try placing two flashes behind and 45 degrees to the sides. This will give you that wrap you are looking for. You will want strip style light sources that are taller than the bottle but skinny.

Thanks, man!!

I'm definitely going to try that. Once I've figured out a way to mask off my softboxes to make strip lights.... hmmmm

A new project for me to work on - cool!

[lputman]

I came back to look at this shot and it reminded slightly of a shot that a member, zetson, took. Take a look at his post about his shot on his blog, FlashFrog: Coca-Cola bottle, part 2 of 2, he's very creative with flash. Do a search for threads started by him, he's posted some amazing photos here.

[candleman]

Originally Posted by lputman

I came back to look at this shot and it reminded slightly of a shot that a member, zetson, took. Take a look at his post about his shot on his blog, FlashFrog: Coca-Cola bottle, part 2 of 2, he's very creative with flash. Do a search for threads started by him, he's posted some amazing photos here.

PHWOAR... awesome shot