A moment of Winessence

Alex and i decided to do a test shoot using my Dom Perignon bottle i received from my 21st from Elouise. We did not have enough lights nor the equipment or the room to do the shoot in so had to improvise in the rumpus room at my house. So in many ways we failed to do the shoot in one shot but improvised by lighting the bottles several different ways (from the back, from the front, lighting the background) and the combining these elements later on the computer to give the best possible result. This in my opinion is a harder process and without even having a proper soft box it was harder to shoot light through a bottle. The result isn't bad at all, i think its quite effective although i would love to do a re-shoot in the college's studio to try and muck around with lights to get the whole set done in one shot with little post production on photoshop. I do like the mood created from this shoot and can't wait to try something a bit different. I need to practice more with lighting and still life so this is the best way to do it in.



This photo was done at college for our wine brief assessment for Studio 1 with Greg Parsons. We had to form groups of three to complete this assessment but due to lack of numbers jasmine and I formed our own duo for this assessment. We both came up and agreed on the same theme, sticking to a classic older male audience. We played on the concept of upper middle class meets intelligence so we decided to use wolf blass red wine. We wanted the setting to depict that of a desk of an older man. Warm tones and colours and a little rustic. We used the Digital Sinar large format camera and lit the setting with several lights. One to light the back drop, one to light the bottle, another to create a nice stripe of white light in the bottle and another to evenly light the other items on the table. Greg Parsons is a genius of lighting and wish i had the honour to learn more from him which is just impossible at this present moment in time. I think we did well for our very first studio still life photo shoot.