Studio Lighting Rig on overhead track with pantographs |
Shoes and Belt advertising photo |
Climbing Wine – invent a pictorial story |
Rolling – blurred bottle rolling into scene |
Advertising photo for stick-on labels |
Creating background interest for a mundane photo |
Matches and red lighting as context for a petrol container |
Lighters unlit |
Lighters lit achieved as a composite |
Chrome tapware – used a single hard light to show off the chrome |
Lenses – shot on a black plastic background using coloured lights |
Brass hinge – also shot on a black plastic background with coloured lights to add interest |
HiFi equipment. Black plastic underlay and background with fake mountains and coloured lights. |
Cosmetics shot with small white card reflectors which were removed in post-processing |
Cosmetics – had to be lit and photographed individually so the text shows up. Final composite on the right. |
GST with dry ice vapour and coloured lights for dramatic effect |
Cogs and gears. In-camera back projection using a split mirror lens. Foreground dry ice for drama. |
Wines and glass. White wine is transparent so needed a translucent spray on the back plus a piece of white card to block the background showing through. |
White card behind the bottle, but not behind the glass. |
Wine range. All bottles of white had white card and translucent spray applied to the rear. Rear labels also had to be taken off the bottles. |
All images are Copyright Phil Weir