Studio - Coloured glass bottle

I have photographed a coloured glass bottle under different lighting set-ups in the studio.
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The following are lit by:
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Honeycomb on right side and slightly above subject

This gave a rich colour to the glass and good highlights but had stong shadows and reflection of the light in the bottle.
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Softbox (masked) on right side and slightly above subject

Bright glass and soft shadow but weak detail and very harsh highlights and reflections.
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2 Soft boxes (masked), one on each side and both slightly above subject

No shadow, good highlights. I like this.
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Beauty dish on right side and slightly above subject

Soft shadow, well lit glass and nice highlights but harsh reflection of the light.
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Umbrella on right side and slightly above subject

Good detail and soft shadow with highlights. Some harsh highlights on the bottle though.

This image shows 'drop focus technique'.

'Drop focus technique' - when a very small slither of an image is acceptably sharp and the rest is thrown out of focus.

Demonstrating importing, organising, naming files and adding captions to files in Lightroom.

This is a screen grab demonstrating files being:

imported into Lightroom

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Organised - To do this I have added a red filter to 5 of my photographs so that I can easily find them in future.


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Naming - I have renamed my image in the metadata menu in Lightroom. This will make it easier to find when needed


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Adding a caption - I have done this to remind myself to use the image as a macro shot for my assignment.

Shallow depth of field, cool, grey balanced and warm versions.

This is a photograph that employs a 'shallow depth of field'

Depth of field is a section of an image that is acceptably sharp, the rest of the image will be at different ranges of focus (from slightly blurred to very blurred).

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Depth of field is affected by camera type, lens, aperture and distance between the camera and the subject.

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'Shallow' depth of field is a very small area of acceptable sharpness within an image. Using a wide aperture gives a shallow depth of field.

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For this photo I used a 'close up +4' filter on a CAnon 18-55mm lens @ 18mm. I shot at f3.5 and 1/80 sec, using a flashgun to light my shot.

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This is an example of how depth of field works.

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Using the white balance slider in Lightroom I then made a:

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Cool version

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Grey balanced version

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and a Warm version
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One Word Task - Treasure

For our for fortnightly task we were asked to take a picture with the theme 'Treasure'.

All of my photographs were taken in a tungsten lit room with a flashgun with a diffusion plate on.

The first 3 pictures of my jewelry box were my first idea. I wanted to show the jewelry box as the modern day treasure chest.

I added an antique light preset to this image in Lightroom.

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I took this shot with a Macro lens.

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I changed my mind and then decided to go with the obvious and dress my son up as a pirate and take a picture of him with treasure.

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For the treasure I emptied my jewelry boxes, added all of my costume jewelry, some pirate themed toys that I found and some chocolate coins that we had under the christmas tree.

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I added a vignette and added a black and white preset in Lightroom.

I added a sepia preset to this one.

This is the image that I chose to submit. I added an 'Aged Photo' preset and a vignette to draw the eye in to the image and to the focus point.