The bicycle on the wine label had me thinking for a few weeks about what to include in the scene that would relate to a bicycle. Then yesterday a friend returned some stuff to me in the bag with bicycles printed on it. I immediately knew the bag was my solution. I only wish it had been larger so I could have used it for the entire background.
By the way, this wine is one of the very best wines I've ever had that costs only $10.
Photo of the Setup
The tabletop is a wooden platform used for arts and crafts and the background on the right is a wooden shelf.
Though it's only a simple, two-lamp setup, it was really tricky lighting the scene so no glare was produced on the wooden piece in the background, so a shadow of the bottle wouldn't be cast on the bag, so the reflections of the two lamps in the bottle were in areas that would be easy to remove during post-processing, so there would be no reflections of the lamps in the word, Chacabuco, and so the bicycle on the wine label would be brightly lit in red tones (otherwise, they would have been black).
The medium lamp above the camera lit the overall scene and the small one to the left served two purposes: it cast light on the bag to reduce the impact of the creases in the paper and brightly lit the bicycle on the wine label. The small white reflector on the right side brightened the shadow tones on that side of the label without adding a reflection to the glass part of the bottle. Five focus-bracketed images at Nikon step size 3 were stacked in Helicon Focus using its default settings.
By the way, this wine is one of the very best wines I've ever had that costs only $10.
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Photo of the Setup
The tabletop is a wooden platform used for arts and crafts and the background on the right is a wooden shelf.
Though it's only a simple, two-lamp setup, it was really tricky lighting the scene so no glare was produced on the wooden piece in the background, so a shadow of the bottle wouldn't be cast on the bag, so the reflections of the two lamps in the bottle were in areas that would be easy to remove during post-processing, so there would be no reflections of the lamps in the word, Chacabuco, and so the bicycle on the wine label would be brightly lit in red tones (otherwise, they would have been black).
The medium lamp above the camera lit the overall scene and the small one to the left served two purposes: it cast light on the bag to reduce the impact of the creases in the paper and brightly lit the bicycle on the wine label. The small white reflector on the right side brightened the shadow tones on that side of the label without adding a reflection to the glass part of the bottle. Five focus-bracketed images at Nikon step size 3 were stacked in Helicon Focus using its default settings.
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