Personal Shoot No.2 Work Dairy

This is one of my photographs from my second personal shoot. The idea behind this shoot was to advertise a perfume which was very girly and feminine. Therefore keeping this is mind, i decided to start with a light pink background to match the pink tint in the bottle. I used the same colour as the surface for the bottle to sit on. By having to polystyrene boards i was able to create a white edge around the bottle to add depth to make it look 3D.  Also by having the lights on the bottle, a slight shadow has been created on the surface which i like as it adds to the 3D effect which i wanted to created. The thing that i would improve in this photograph is the brightness of the lid of the perfume as i feel this looks dull compared to the rest of the things in the composition. 

This is another one of my photographs from my second personal shoot. Compared to the other above photograph i decided to shown more of the background however still keeping the bottle of perfume in the centre of the composition to ensure that it is the centre of the composition. Again i used the same lighting as the one above creating the slight shadow to add a 3D effect which is supported by the white lines created by the polystyrene boards either side of the bottle. The thing that i would improve in this photography, is the line which established the background from the surface in which is bottle is one as i would like this to not be visible therefore creating a seamless background and surface.

If i was to do this shoot again, i would like to look at different colour schemes other than pink in order to explore in to how to light different coloured background to avoid any harsh shadows. I would also like to look at different lighting to the bottle itself to achieve different results. 

What influenced me to do this shoot
I was influenced to do this shoot when looking at my personal project image bank as i found many interesting example of commercial photographing involving perfume. Also i wanted to look at the different ways of editing the photograph as this was something which stood out to me when looking at other examples of perfume photographs. 

As a result of this shoot, i would like to continue to look at photographing products which contain liquid as i enjoyed experimenting with the lighting the bottle and the liquid

Future Shoot
In a future shoot, i would like to look at photographing liquid however through drink rather than perfume as i feel that i would be able to be creative with the background and lighting in order to reflect the type of drink i am photographing whether it be alcoholic or not.