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Red bull

What do you thinks about this photo?? :)

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Hello Andrea

It's a good effort, but I have a couple of things to mention. The logo is the most important thing in your product, and yes, Red Bull is one of the most recognized brands in the world, but you left the logo in the shadow area and is almost unreadable. That red should be hitting us in the eyes. I would tell you to place a third light hitting the can from the top, it would be enough to bring the logo back from the shadows.
Second thing is the ice is a little dead, I thing it is a good opportunity to have a little gesture, perhaps have some broke ice around the can's base, or a sculpted area around the can. Also a light behind the ice would make it pop a lot more, rarely is the ice grey, so that kills it somewhat.
Other little things, should have a background light, creating the splash of light behind the can, helps create separation and contrast.
I actually like your droplets, they are nice and well spaced. only thing is on the right side it looks like they were wiped, maybe a random finger licked it or something.
If you don't have more lights, I would recommend the top light in the can and ice (gridded light works best), and with the second light you make two separate exposures, one for the background, and the other to back light the ice, and composite both exposures in photoshop.
And go at that ice with an ice pick.
If you're able to repeat this shot It would be great to see the result.

Hi Carlos, At the time I had only 1 flash and the other light is made with a mirror :D
I don't know how to work ice so... It's hard to broke where is the can's base!

I'll retry again with your helpful recommendations also because now I've 3 flashes :D Thanks u a lot!

Have a nice day

That's great. It would still be possible with a single light, just would require more work. I sometimes do composite when I need one more light and I have none. With some care to separate where each light falls so they don't overlap, then it's easy to compose them in ps.
Please share your result with us, I would be very interested in seeing what you come up with.
Best

At the time I was not too good with PS so I don't thought to shot more photos with different light...

I'll also try with the smoke machine that my parents gifted for my birthday ;)

Soon the results! :D