Personal Shoot No.5 Work Diary

This is my best photograph from my 5th personal shoot. My aim to achieve a good commercial photography for 'Smirnoff' wss to place the bottle into piles of ice cubes to portray refreshness within the photograph. By keeping the background simple, i was able to make the red sections of the bottle standout which is where the companies logo is therefore this is a key element in trying to sell this product. When editing this specific photograph, i decided to use the smart sharpen tool to allow the ice cubes to have depth as well as establishing the edge of the bottle from the ice that it is on. 

In this second photograph from my 5th personal shoot, i decided that i wanted to take a different approach. I kept the ice cubes as the background, however i wanted to take this photograph much closer up allowing the audience to only see the top part of the bottle showing the company logo. I thought that this was acceptable as 'Smirnoff' are a well known and established company therefore they do not need to necessarily specify that it is vodka. Again this photograph has overall feel of refreshment and freshness to it due to the use of the piles of ice cubes surrounding the bottle of 'Smirnoff'.

This shoot has influenced me to look at more drink commercial photography as i feel this i something that i a better at due to me previously having photographed liquid last year. If i was to do this shoot again, i would consider using brighter lighting as well as editing it to be different colours to represent nightlife.

What influenced me to do this shoot
I was influenced to do from shoot 3 as i wanted to continue to look at drink as this was something that i found interesting due to the different lighting which i hadn't used before. 

As a result of this shoot i feel much more confident with photographing drink therefore it is something that i would like to continue to experiment with throughout this project. 

Future Shoot
In a future shoot, i would like to look at photographing liquid however through cosmetics such as nail vanish opposed to drinks. This means that i will be able to use my knowledge of lighting liquid in this shoot therefore i will be able to approach it with confidence.