Product Photography

During our Product photography work shops we were given a tutorial by Tim, in which we looked at photographing a wine bottle and an aftershave bottle. The aim of this work shop was to show us the cheats and techniques used to photograph difficult products such as glass or reflective lids ect. 


Here ive photographed the set us used to capture an image of a men's Clinique 'Happy' aftershave bottle. The layout may look busy but there is a purpose to pretty much every object on the table. As Tim explained, when shooting a fragrance bottle or anything with a reflective lid such as this, anything in the room, including the photographer and the camera is reflected in the object. This obviously doesn't look very professional. 

The kind of image we were aiming with this set up was like the image below. In order to do this the set up started with a light lighting up the background to ensure it was white and that there was light coming through the glass bottle. Next are large foam boards which were white on the side facing the light, this ensured the light was being reflected onto the background and no shadows were being caused. 

Next a light is being shone using a light box to create softer lighting, onto the object. the light box can be seen to the right of the image. Then either side of the aftershave bottle are black boards being propped up, this is what causes the light and dark reflections in the stainless steel lid rather than reflections of people of objects in the room. 

Lastly the bottle is placed on a mirror or sheet of glass which helps to create the floating look which can be seen in the image below. 

Touch ups were then made on capture one such as adjusting the colour and removing ant scratches on the bottle or specks or dust ect. 

Below a still life book on lighting found in the library:

This helped me to grasp the concept of lighting objects.

Below are some shots taken before the lighting and set up were correct. These images i took of Clinqiue products go to show the importance of getting the studio set up correct when photographing such objects. 

Final Image