Studio - Bring in a product – Pantene Hair Care

I brought in a small sample box of hair care product from Pantene. It contained two small bottles and two sachets.

Always learn from your mistakes! It pays to be attentive to what you are doing. In this case I had two bottles of product. I looked at one and placed it for the shoot and naturally placed the second one in the same way, top opening on the top, and didn't pay attention to the product label. Both bottles contained Daily Moisture Renewal but the difference lay in the small print. One was Shampoo and the other was Conditioner but my real problem came after I had done a number of shots that I realised that one of the labels was upside down, well not really. Pantene put the label on the Shampoo so that the bottle top was at the top and for the Conditioner it was on the bottom. This is cleary obvious in several of my shots.

Lesson learned – Always check your products when setting them up and pay special attention to the details.

Two lights used, one with medium sized softbox and the other with a snoot. Glass was used under the object in an effort to get a reflection of the product to provide the suttle message that using this product will have same effect of reflecting the beauty and glow of the users hair. Using light tried to have the background as white and also black.

All images as shot no post-production applied.

Camera angle too low, reflections cut, product upside down.

Camera still too low unless only partial reflection used.
Snoot vinette on background visible.
Too much reflection on sachette.
Glass line needs post production work.

Camera raised to get full reflection.
Snoot vinettes on background as envisaged.
Still too much reflection on sahette.
Post production needed on glass line.  

Change camera to portrait format,
Sachette better with little reflection.
Product on LHS not as sharp, lighting might not be even.
Product right side up.
Printing on product on top RHS product distracting as is the beveled bottom as opposed to the LHS product.
Glass line and background need post production. 

Little too much reflection on sachette.
Product shadow distracting.
Table behind products needs post production work.

Angle better to get full black background.
However, camera too low as reflection go beyond glass.
Post production needed in background with glass edge and glass reflection.

Similar to above comments.
In this shot the glass was moved back to elimnate the glass edge reflection on the table.