Perfect Product Imaging & Retouching

Here is a project where we converted this beautiful hand-painted bottle into a finished product image. Here were the instructions:

Fill the bottle. Add the cap from the last photoshoot. Fix the artwork as attached there is a line missing on one of the chili peppers. Do not show the labeling from the back of the bottle on the front of the bottle. We need one bottle with our Olio Nuovo dot, too. We need ASAP for a magazine article.

I rigged a special way to shoot the bottle in one shot and then completed the rest of the tasks in Photoshop.

Use the slider to slide back and forth and see the before and after!

One of the things I always do while shooting and retouching is to look at the bottle in natural light and consider how the colors, shape, and light interact with it in real time versus under my high-powered strobes. The strobes take away shadows and make every color look amazing. But they are never the whole story. The finished bottles have a similar feel but honor the shape of the bottle and the artwork.

A wooden desk with a bottle of Bondolio olive oil, a Nikon camera with a zoom lens, and a black case. In the background, there is a small table with a decorative plant made of blue and red leaves in a black square pot, and some papers in a basket.