For our last brief before we broke up for christmas we had to shoot a lit candle in the style of a product shot. We also had to do this on location. As I am not from Wakefield I don't really know much of the place and so I just did my shoot at my flat in my living room. I shot this at night and closed the curtains and only used my christmas lights on my sideboard for bokeh and a table lamp to the front right of the candles to create highlights to show the shape of the tealight holders. I also had to hold the camera to shoot this as my tripod wouldnt go low enough for the angle I wanted and my coffee table (which the candles are on) isn't very tall.
I don't think this really looks like a product shot but I felt that if you don't have a brand name on the candle then most pictures end up looking like just a good picture of candles. This was shot on my canon 450d with a canon 50mm f1.8 lens. The only editing I have done on this was put the clarity up a little and exposure up by just 0.05.
If I could do this again I would use some white card to bounce some of the table lamp's light back onto the left side of the holders as I think they are a little too dark and you loose the grain of them. It would also help to defuse the harsh highlight spot on the right sides.
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