The lighting was too dark which meant I was losing detail in the bottle. In this post I will review some of the images which I previously shoot and think about what I could change to make them better.
These are two of the first images which I took. I firstly shot these in order to test my lighting to see if the image was correctly exposed. After looking at them on the computer on a larger scale, I realised there were many things which I needed to change in order to get the image I wanted to achieve. I realised that the image looked very bland without any colour being out into it, this is when I decided to add the blue gel. I felt that by adding the blue tone the images would become more interesting and there would be various shades of blue within the image which would create a variation in interesting tones.
After then adding the blue tone, I realised that I then needed to change the lighting arrangement as the blue was also causing me to lose tone and textures. By changing the position of the light I felt I would be able to lighten the skull.
I then decided to change the background entirely as I still was not getting the image I wanted. I also moved the softbox so that the skull was now getting lit from behind. This was so I could stop the very overexposed area on the chin from lighting up. I realised that from this process, I was getting more interesting images and the tones and detail were much better. I also decided to then move the skull into different positions to see what I could achieve from this.
What I learned/to improve on....
Coming away from this shoot I realised that I had to change my lighting set up and rearrange it so that the skull was being lit from behind. I also learned that instead of having a complete black background, I should instead have half of a blue background so that I could get better tones and contrast.
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