I found some discarded receipts a plastic bag and a few energy drinks cans. I also found an Amazon package laying around my room which had flaps that could be used quite interestingly to create shadows on the objects. I thought these items would work quite well together so I photographed them all separately and got these images in the contact sheets below.
I shot the first couple of the energy drinks cans on a bright blue backdrop which I thought would work because of the contrast between the red, the silver and, the blue. I shot these couple with a two light studio set up with my external flash and a 50mm f/1.8 prime lens. The colours did pop and I like the look of the images, but something just seemed fake about them, something that put me off of using the two lights and flash combination. I liked the use of three cans because there wasn’t any negative space created in the image where the eye could be led if there was either two or four. I knew after three shots that I had to change the ‘studio’ set, which led me to try using the amazon packaging that I found lying around.
I decided that I would remove one of the lights to make the light more harsh, and directional in addition to the one studio light I used the external flash pointing it up to the ceiling to bounce off of the white to get a more even light and to fill in the shadows slightly. This works very well for the images.
Because of the way that I have shot these images little editing was needed, as seen below, they are exposed well enough to see what they are without exposure correction in CameraRAW. I have enhanced them in editing to make them more cohesive and aesthetically pleasing to my eye. I have included the three images I have decided to go with in their original form and their edited final form.
