Lighting Techniques - Bottle

For my bottle I chose a liqueur bottle purely for the fact it was a lot more interesting than a plain bottle of water. We had to use the different modifiers for lighting

units to light the bottle. The modifiers we had to use were; a masked soft-box, a honey-comb, a beauty-dish, and an umbrella. Below are my attempts.

This is the image I took where I used a soft-box to light it. The soft-box diffuses the light to get rid of any harsh shadows. For me it is probably the most useful modifier due to its versatility. The only problem I have with this image is the fact the left and right sides of the brand name is not really visible due to how the light has been distributed around the image thanks to the soft-box. Overall I like the rest of the image.

This for me is the lighting which works the best for this bottle. I used a honey-comb for this image which produce a very harsh direct light. It almost produces a 'spot-light' effect leaving some of the frame in darkness. This for me helps to make this image stronger and compliment the bottle. Another reason this lighting compliments the bottle is the dark colour of the background. I really like this image and find it quite a strong one.

I shot this image using an umbrella. Umbrella's work by facing the light towards the highly-reflective material on the inside of it and therefore bouncing the light back towards the subject. For me umbrella's are good to use as they are easy to set-up and produce a very soft, diffused lighting. I like how this image is lit.

This final image was produced using a beauty-dish. I had never used a beauty dish up until coming onto this course and so didn't have much; if any experience at all using one so found this quite a tricky one to use. I found it to produce quite harsh light; however not quite as harsh as the honey-comb. I think it works quite well and does give the bottle an element of beauty. I would imagine that it would be much more effective when used on a person rather than an object.