I may have a chance to do some product shots in the near future. I have been practicing and need some feed back. On this shot I am not happy with the edges of the bottle they seem to be a bit over exposed. How would you light this shot?
I make an 'arch' out of black paper or card and suspend it behind the subject, then you can play with widths and distances to achieve the darkened shoulders effect
The bottle is floating in the air; why not use some underground, a mirror or reflective material? You can try to use some black velvet instead of black paper; it can absorb even more light. Sometimes a gradient in the background can create some depth; you can achieve it by preventing the light hitting the background by tilting the softbox.
With this particular shot I am looking for a punch out that can be used in several applications. This might be supper imposed on a picture of a golf course or used on a web site. Thanks for the suggestions and I will try them all.
The final effort came out quite nice. I know you were going for the 'traditional' product shot, but did you consider throwing some color in there? BTW, did you shoot the knife and the lemon too?
I should try to shoot a white on white scene, lately I have been into black on black stuff...
Your shots are great. Yes I did shoot the lemon and knife picture. As for adding color I decided not to because of the wide range of applications that this shot will be used.
Here is another end use. Using the paint brush I tinted the bottle pink to better match the rest of the shot.
