Splitting Coca-Cola take 2

icicle · 08-13-2009, 03:00 PM

Ok, so after doing about 50 shots or so without a memory card I decided to try it again.
I pleased with this one,

Is there anything that could be changed, or fixed?
I did an auto contrast, a auto level, and a auto color correction and re-sized, and auto straighten

jetrim · 08-13-2009, 04:17 PM

This is looking MUCH, MUCH better, and I'm sure closer to what you originally envisioned when you set it up the first time. Still seems just a wee bit overexposed, but very close and can probably be corrected with Highlight/Midtone/Shadow and/or contrast adjustments

icicle · 08-13-2009, 10:58 PM

Yes it may be a tad overexposed, I'm not that great with photo shop to get it 100% So Right now I will settle for 90%, However I might play with this more tomorrow when I have the day off.

LeeIs · 08-13-2009, 11:02 PM

hey, it's an improvement over the first one for sure and u managed to get the holes right this time ;-) I agree with jetrim, it's a bit over exposed but a nice improvement already.

icicle · 08-13-2009, 11:24 PM

Thank you Liban.

I know I have learned a new respect for those who do High Key work. And It is harder than it looks.

LeeIs · 08-13-2009, 11:54 PM

Yeah, it's a very tough niche that high key stuff. I've never even tried it! looks very difficult.

Ray Dockrey · 08-14-2009, 05:37 AM

This one looks very cool.

icicle · 08-14-2009, 07:12 AM

Thank you everyone.

Trevor Ash · 08-14-2009, 07:20 AM

Glass is very difficult to photograph, especially in a high key scenario, and especially very translucent glass. If you had more fill light, you'd have been able to drop the exposure and the glass wouldn't have been so overexposed. You'd still have obtained the effect you were after. High key doesn't have to mean perfect white.

I think what I'm saying is that you picked a challenging subject to photograph

Matt.Pauze · 08-14-2009, 07:25 AM

Very nice, i like this concept alot, the only thing is that i would like to see more details in the glass and also, the shadow on the left in the background is distracting to me. It's great to see you have the patience to shoot 50 shot without memory card, just to master the high key. My moto is:''everything is worth trying and giving up wont make me better'', i see we think alike!

icicle · 08-14-2009, 07:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trevor Ash

Glass is very difficult to photograph, especially in a high key scenario, and especially very translucent glass. If you had more fill light, you'd have been able to drop the exposure and the glass wouldn't have been so overexposed. You'd still have obtained the effect you were after. High key doesn't have to mean perfect white.

I think what I'm saying is that you picked a challenging subject to photograph

For the background light I was using two 250 watt halogen work lights, two flashes.
the one flash was pointed towards the background, the other flash was in front with a piece of foam board on top of it aimed at the foreground to eliminate front shadows.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt.Pauze

Very nice, i like this concept alot, the only thing is that i would like to see more details in the glass and also, the shadow on the left in the background is distracting to me. It's great to see you have the patience to shoot 50 shot without memory card, just to master the high key. My moto is:''everything is worth trying and giving up wont make me better'', i see we think alike!

Oh I'm not giving up just yet, just going to put it on the back burner for a while so I can rest. Does any one know how hard it is to break this all down and to re-set it up every shot. this includes dumping both glasses and trying to put every thing back in place.

And thank you.

Trevor Ash · 08-14-2009, 10:12 AM

For what it's worth, I do have some experience shooting table top glass. Here are a couple examples that I had posted on this site before.

http://gallery.photographyreview.com...dard2large.jpg
http://gallery.photographyreview.com...stom1large.jpg

The first image was extremely challenging and as you can imagine, I had to work around the same exact issues you did.

As mentioned before, if you changed the ratio between background and foreground light I think you'd be much closer to what you're probably trying to get and the overall exposure would be improved.

The other thing that would help (if you have the patience for it) is to strategically place black foamcore or construction paper or whatever you have around that's LARGE and black to the left and/or right of the shot. Place them so that the glass is not reflecting the bounced light flying around the room everywhere. Shooting glass requires a ton of control because of how it reflects everything in the room.

You did a great job I'm just trying to give you some ideas or techniques to help you take it to the next level.

BTW, in those two shots above the background was not solid white in camera. It was masked and brightened post processing. These shots aren't really high key but once the lighting is correct it's not an issue to make them have those qualities.

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