How to make a graduated highlight.
In this video I take you step by step through the process of lighting a glass bottle to produce a graduated highlight.
I will demonstrate how to use the displacement filter in photoshop to distort an image as if photographed through wobbly glass.
How to make a subject appear to be inside a glass bottle.
Then how to produce an image of the same bottle to use as a displacement map in photoshop.
How to light a subject to appear inside the bottle.
Finally, how to put all the elements together in photoshop to produce a finished image of the subject in the bottle appearing with all the distortion introduced by the glass of the bottle.
Everything is covered from the studio lighting using studio flash, through the tethered capture in Capture one software, to the final image in Adobe Photoshop.
I'll use a Canon DSLR, tethered into Capture one software to show you how to capture your subject from basic image to completed photograph.
Ideas for art photography.
Profoto D2 studio flash.
4x1 soft box.
2x2 soft box.
Plastic sheet diffusion material.
Canon 24-70mm f2.8 Lens.