First mistake: I had already made a photo of this wine bottle that I won't bother displaying here because I don't like it as much as this one. I was preparing to make the photo shown below when the presentation board that had made up the tabletop and background in the first photo accidentally slipped from behind the bottle and off to the right side. I really liked how the curve on the side so nicely complimented the curves in the wine label, so I left it that way. I would never have thought on my own of intentionally creating that curve in the background.
Second mistake: Having decided to leave that curve in the composition, I set up a black background and a larger diffusion panel behind the background. When lit from behind, that part of the setup would outline the bottle in bright tones. As I was making that happen, the black background fell off the tabletop and revealed the diffusion panel that had been hidden by it. Fortunately, I had already turned on the lamp fitted with a diffusion sock that lit the scene from the right front area. The light falling onto the curve created the nice shadow on the accidental, brighter background. I liked the shadow and the tones in the accidental background so much that I never returned to the concept of using a black background behind the bottle.
By the way, this is a color photo.
Setup
Hopefully it's described clearly enough in the above narrative.
Focus Stacking
Twenty focus-bracketed images at Nikon step size 3 were stacked using Helicon Focus at its default settings.
Second mistake: Having decided to leave that curve in the composition, I set up a black background and a larger diffusion panel behind the background. When lit from behind, that part of the setup would outline the bottle in bright tones. As I was making that happen, the black background fell off the tabletop and revealed the diffusion panel that had been hidden by it. Fortunately, I had already turned on the lamp fitted with a diffusion sock that lit the scene from the right front area. The light falling onto the curve created the nice shadow on the accidental, brighter background. I liked the shadow and the tones in the accidental background so much that I never returned to the concept of using a black background behind the bottle.
By the way, this is a color photo.
Setup
Hopefully it's described clearly enough in the above narrative.
Focus Stacking
Twenty focus-bracketed images at Nikon step size 3 were stacked using Helicon Focus at its default settings.
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