Guinness Shoot | Post-Production

The final images are taken into editing software, where Karl makes subtle adjustments to bring out the richness of the Guinness and polish the overall image.

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  1. Hi Karl, first of all, congratulations on the content and lessons. I also photograph products and I wanted to ask a question. Wouldn’t it be easier to do a radial gradient at 45 degrees as fill light using a larger softbox to avoid reflections, and with 1.5 less exposure than the other lights, then adding it later in Photoshop with dodge and burn? Recently I did a project with beer and took two photos: one for the side exposure using two strips and another for filling in the shadows. I say this because you wouldn’t use the entire area, and the radial gradient would follow the tones of the beer glass, bringing a softness without compromising the shadow areas. A big hug!

    1. Hi Dani, thank you for your comments. Unfortunately I don’t quite understand what you mean by ‘a radial gradient at 45 degrees as a fill light using a larger softbox’ – radial in it’s very term is related to circular so when I want to create a round gradient I use a barebulb light or sometimes a P70 reflector? You then mention something regarding a softbox to avoid reflections which I don’t understand? Maybe you can provide some image examples in stages?

  2. Hi Karl, many thanks for the tutorials. You have given me a tremendous amount of help with product photography and I felt I could could pass on some of my Photoshop knowledge to help you with isolating a harp logo on a Guinness glass lol! When you did the 1st colour range to select the harp you should have saved it as a selection and then viewed the saved selection channel, ie in black and white. You would then have seen all the extra stuff that the colour range had picked up. You could have then easily selected the harp logo with the magic wand tool, inverted the selection and deleted the extra stuff you didn’t want. If this didn’t give you a perfect result you could still edit the saved selection channel with a hard brush set to either black or white paint by shift clicking over the stuff you didn’t want. Much easier I think you will find! Thanks Jay

      1. Hi Karl, thank you for the high quality of these lessons. Is it possible to do this with just one light?for example, take the first shot with the light on the right, then move it to the left for the next shot, and so on, and stack the shots in post? Or is the four light setup required?

        1. Hi, I think it would be possible to do it with 3 or maybe 2 lights but not one. We do have a great classes on how to shoot some products with just one light though if you want to check those out.

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