Woodford Reserve

A personal Project

Playing around with the light cast from the Woodford bottle when shot from behind, created some really interesting colors.

LIGHT SETUP
2 Strip boxes, 1 Gridded Reflector, 1 Snoot.

STRIP BOXES, and REFLECTOR
1st strip box was on the back left of the bottle. Almost at the same direction the bottle was facing.. but a bit more to the left. I placed the a reflector with a grid to the right of this strip box. While I was enjoying the smooth darker mood the strip box brought, I wanted some hard like to bring out the reds and create the brighten up the bottom part of the bottle, as I wanted a darker color where the brands name was for increased contrast.

2nd Strip box was behind the bottle in the same line as the camera was.I wanted to bring out a bit more reds in the section behind the branding, but I wanted independent control of that, before this light, directly behind was completely black. However this destroyed the mood created on the the wood. So I flagged out that portion so only the dark parts of the the bottle had light hit them, this light also brought in the surface highlights in the right glass.

SNOOT
Finally I haded a snoot to point down on the Woodford logo and bottom labeling. I did this at a pretty angle. Straight in front of the bottle(from it's point of view) This also created the lovely white light inside of the left glass.

IN POST
Very minimal edits,
Got rid of a few unwanted reflections from the glass in to the bottle, dust clean up etc. Biggest change in post was applying a cyan based gradient map at about 30%. This provided some nice color contrast against the reds of the image.