High Key Product Shooting

The Price of Clean Water

This is a simple, and clean product shot that I used to illustrate the price of clean water in Costa Rica. I was publishing a rather controversial local magazine, and the hot topic of the month was sewage treatment. This is a difficult concept to properly illustrate without being nasty, so I chose this approach instead. I used a lab beaker, a crisp 5000 colony bill, and distilled water for the subject. The shot was backlit using a plexiglass shooting table, with just an overhead reflector for fill light. I wanted to keep this shot very simple and clean to drive home the point, so the background is a pure white that was lightly dickied in Photoshop. Keeping the money in place was some surf wax and a metal wire, both invisible to the camera.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at 12:45 pm and is filed under Product and tagged with clean water, costa rica, hot topic, money, photographer, Photography, reflector, sewage treatment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.