Best Images

Out of all my images I feel that this is the strongest one. It was comprised of two images – the back ground and the foreground. I had to expose the two different images individually, so that the focal point was on the back and had a much higher f/stop and faster shutter, then I manually focused the camera on the bottle and set the settings to be slower and have a lower f/stop. I really enjoyed editing this image as it took a lot of different skills on PhotoShop to get it how I wanted it. I had to lighten the bottle image ever so slightly and then alter the back ground to make they sky a little more dramatic. Using the Dodge tool I lightened aspects on the label and then using the sharpen and burn tool I made the top of the bottle stand out more.

This was produced a lot like the previous image by merging two different photographs together and altering each separately. This image didn’t need as much alteration as the last one as I found both bottle and back drop were well exposed and sharp. I did however enhance the label enough so that is was brighter and stood out against the rest of the image. I also increased saturation of the yellow of the label as it is one of the key features, telling you what the drink is,

 

Though this image is stronger than the other images I took of this bottle, it is the weakest out of my three best. I found that due to the highly reflective cover over the bottle my image had too many hot spots. This means I had a lot of work to do in Photoshop. I had to gently clone out most of the obtrusive hot spots, making sure it looked natural, and then alter the colours enough so that the logo and writing was legible. I then toned down certain leaves and increased the contrast and saturation of others to add depth. I feel this worked, however  I believe that composition wise,it has a lot of room for improvement.