Hi guys I'm Karl Taylor... in this video, you're going to see this
photograph. You're going to see this picture and how I shot it - let
me just zoom in on it for you. There's a few details here to do with the
highlights on the bottle, the edge of the cap, the background glow, the
illumination on the label. Lots of things to talk about here you're going to see
exactly how I shot that in this video. Stay tuned to the end and I'm going to
give you a little bit of extra information about this particular
shot. So Urs, on this product shot, I'm just using a softbox, a 30/120 through
the side here. Diffusing it through a sheet of frosted perspex to
get this lovely line of light, this diffused light, down the side and neck of
the bottle. "If you take the diffuser away it's just too sharp or why do you use it?"
Well, yeah absolutely, the light from the softbox will be a very clean sharp edge line
and too defined in the bottle. I want a more feathered diffuse light
and then on my surface here I've just got a reflective surface to give a
mirror image of the bottle in the surface. "Is that just a mirror?"
No, it's it's actually a sheet of high
gloss metal, it's polished metal and it just gives a very clean reflection.
Sometimes with a mirror you get that double image reflection.
So, this gives you a single image and then on the front additionally I've got a light.
These Pico lights with the projection attachments on. That's just illuminating
our labels here and here - just basically concentrating that beam of
light and then that lovely glow of light that's coming through the back, giving us
the backlighting through the bottle. If we go around and take a look at that.
So I've just got a standard dish on the light and a honeycomb grid and
that's just putting that ball of light through the frosted perspex.
Focus adjustment: because
the Pulso light has the focus adjustment, I can adjust
the beam and the feather of the light a little bit. What I do is I experiment
with the feather of the light and also pushing the light backwards and forwards
to get the best result. "Focusing is a fine adjustment
of the grid and of the light beam?" Absolutely!
OK, let's try and get a couple of shots. So I'm just going to give you this piece
of silver card Urs. If you can just bounce a little bit of light onto
the neck of the bottle. Something like that.. yes that looks about right.
Yes, that's looking good.
"Spray the bottle before Karl?" Yes, it's a special mixture we give to
just give it this cold, condensation look.
"But the drops are solid?" Yes, it sets it rock hard so the droplets don't move and
then they don't evaporate - it's a special mixture that we create to put on
the bottles. "How do we create it?" Haha... well and that's the secret Ur!
You'll have to check out our pro level training (KarlTaylorEducation.com)
and find out our best secrets!
"OK"
Thanks for watching guys. I want to show you a couple more things on the photo to
make it totally clear with that tutorial what I was talking about. Let's just take
a look at the image again. So here is the bottle that I shot. Have a look
at this highlight on the bottle here, you see that lovely feathered highlight
that's going on there, that is because of the gradient lighting's caused by
the diffused perspex that I use. So rather than just using the softbox, I use a
sheet of perspex in front of it. Now that could have been diffusion material on
the roll but it's that diffusion material in that place that gives this
highlight. Let's take a look at that you can see that lovely feathered highlight
which means you don't get that clear stripy line. You can see it they're also
apparent on the side of the bottle there. The highlight on the top neck and cap of
the bottle there, that was purely from the mirror that my colleague always held
in position. The lighting you can see coming through the bottle is from
the light at the back which is also causing that lovely gradient/radial glow
in the background and then the lighting here on the label is caused by the small
projection attachment lights that I've got shining on to the front of the bottle.
So I hope you enjoyed that short tutorial thanks very much for watching.