Product Still Life

Vintage Cider

This shot was inspired by a You Tube film produced by Fstoppers. I followed their lighting set up with one speedlight low behind the bottle, two equal power speedlights one on each side, a small soft box over the top of the bottle and then a video led light to fill in the front of the bottle.

Once I had the lighting how I liked it, adjusting the power of each until I was happy with the overall effect I then added the pieces of ice around the bottom of the bottle and lightly sprayed the bottle with a mixture of water and glycerine. The glycerine events the water from running off the bottle and gives you time to capture the shot.

The bottle was stood on a piece of glass with black card underneath.

Post production in Lightroom and Photoshop was minimal with a little added clarity and blurring of the background.