Product Photography of Three Chain Road Craft Gin in our Melbourne Studio.
Three Chain Road is a Craft Gin Distiller from Rutherglen, Victoria and is made by Buller Wines who are well known for making great fortified wines. Working with Trish from Design Energy, a boutique Wine label specialist, we wanted images to have dramatic shadows created by coloured glass and textured objects. In our West Melbourne studio (Glow Studios) we put together a simple set with a few props to photograph the range of gins.
To capture the fine colour foil on the texture labels, a lot of attention was placed on complex lighting. The mixing of hard lighting for dramatic effect and soft gradient lighting for tone comes from years of lighting experience for all sorts of products. Our studio has all the strobe lighting and modifiers required for studio and location photography.
One of our tricks to photographing ice which is fast melting is to use hand carved acrylic cubes. We have a selection of cubes for any liquid and drinks photography.
Images are captured on the Hasselblad X1D 50 megapixel digital mirrorless medium format camera. The Hasselblad is a high resolution professional camera that captures far more detail and colour compared to 35mm digital cameras such as ones from Canon, Nikon or Sony due to the sensor being nearly twice the size of a 35mm frame.
ABOUT BULLER WINES
Established in 1921 by Reginald Landon Buller and has been associated with Rutherglen’s finest fortified wines for almost 100 years.
In 2013 the winery was purchased by the Judd Family and now has 3 co-owners- Gerald Judd, David Whyte and Michael Murtagh.
Distiller & Wine Maker: David Whyte
Label Design: Design Energy
Digital Retoucher: Steph Fraser
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