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Traditional & Dry
Traditional & Dry
esdarby


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Challenge: Beer or Soft Drink Advertisement (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: My apartment.
Date: Oct 3, 2006
Aperture: f/6.3
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/200 sec
Galleries: Advertisement, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Oct 3, 2006

First attempt at a real "product shot".
Set up one of my Smith-Victor lights off to the right.
Aimed my Speedlite at the wall for bounce.

Processing:
Rotated to straighted up vertically.
Cropped.
Adjusted levels and curves.
Bumped up color with hue/sat.
Unsharp Mask.
Neat Image.
Added frame.
Saved for web.

I'm happy with the look of the product. Not crazy about the backdrop, but I couldn't find anything better.

Had to do two sessions. Just to make sure I was content. Also to make sure my thirst was properly quenched. ;-)

Statistics
Place: 43 out of 127
Avg (all users): 5.6592
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 5.4200
Avg (non-participants): 5.7050
Views since voting: 1008
Views during voting: 390
Votes: 311
Comments: 15
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/10/2006 11:09:55 AM
Standard, space-efficient bar card composition. The brew needs back or sub light to make it pop from dark bacground. Try gold foil strip strategically placed behind glass and bottle or cut hole in base material (towell?) and fire light up from underneath. Add salt to increase/maintain head during shoot. Good start.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/10/2006 02:16:14 AM
perhaps this would have looked better on a flat black surface
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/10/2006 12:12:52 AM
A hard base would have suited the image more IMP. The velvet table cover looks very soft
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/09/2006 09:55:40 PM
Great picture, focus, and light, but the towel or carpet or whatever is distracting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/09/2006 05:08:40 AM
cold and enticing.8
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/07/2006 09:19:48 PM
Sweet! I'll pick some up. 10.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/05/2006 09:38:56 PM
the towel was a bad choice... Anyway it's a good shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/05/2006 06:49:50 PM
6: A nice simple shot that would be well suited to an add. The lighting is a little bit harsh. I'll add an extra point (7) to compensate for those that may vote low as this isnt beer or soft drink.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/05/2006 06:04:39 PM
Not bad. Focus should have been on the big label though. It's blurred enough to be a distraction when it should be the highlight of the image. Reflections on the top of the glass should go (black sheet behind you?) Good job.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/05/2006 01:34:28 AM
Not feeling the "traditional" part. Perhaps a different backdrop or surface could have brought that out?
10/04/2006 11:22:18 PM
The border goes wll with the picture, and like the setup.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/04/2006 08:11:26 PM
Nice presentaton of product. Dust in carpet and reflection in glass are two avoidable distractions (fill glass more and dust off carpet). Nice comp lends itself well to text placement. Nice job aside from small fixable details.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/04/2006 09:49:52 AM
Nice light control and good color.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/04/2006 05:08:35 AM
I really like the colour and the comp...I like the frost on theglass and bottle, but I don't care too much for what you have used as a base (towel?) this makes the image look cheap and ametuerish...perhaps some black card would have been better
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/04/2006 12:57:27 AM
Neither a beer nor a soft drink.


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