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.