No real story here except that I spent $22 for the bottle and I dont really drink. I would have centered up the bottle but the label on the back became too obtrusive in the shot and I really didnt feel like doing the postprocessing to clean it up - so I went with the slightly rotated perspective. I dont expect this to do gangbusters but I did think it was a pretty clean shot with an almost advertisement feel to it. And hey - it says gold 3 times on it and it has at leat a $1 worth of gold floating around. Sure meets the challenge wouldnt ya say?
Post process - crop, stauration, levels, burning, cloning, gaussian blur in areas, USM, border, resize for web.
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Met the challenge very well. And it would be an excellent product advertisement. Not that it did bad here, but it seems most voters don't like ad like photos. If you do it well the best your going to get is low 5's. (Don't get me wrong I'd be happy to get low 5's!). But maybe if you had opened the bottle and had a pretty glass full next to it, it would have done better.
Yep, I'd have to say it met the challenge! I know I've bought things for a challenge, but never a bottle of liquor (I don't drink so it'd go to waste.) Pretty bottle, though! Well lit, would probably work well as a product ad, though the base is a bit heavy - not sure how you could remedy that except perhaps shoot from above instead of below. I'm not thrilled with the border - it's not too heavy for the picture, but it doesn't add anything for me.
What I liked about this photo was the lighting and the perspective. The bottom up view made this look like a advertisement photo. It is clear and well lit. What I was not so wild about was the slim link to "Gold" - the word is there and a bit of the color, but not enough for me to really appreciate the link. That said, I scored it a 6 and would have scored it higher if I thought the color was better represented.
Certainly an interesting photo. I would like to know who this was done. The clarity and crispness is very good and there only one little hotspot on the cap of the bottle thats distracting yet adds a certain commercial quality to this photo. Well done and good luck in this challenge. <7>
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