I went through a lot of options before settling on this one. I was going to try to do an Alka-Seltzer style shot, but then realized this was stock and not advertisement. So then I got out my first aid kit, and was playing around with some setups. It was ok, but a bit busy. Finally, I thought of this simple, yet effective (hopefully) image.
Setup is in my light tent. The background/bottom is a white cloth, which definitely isn't as clean as a white poster-board (I need to pick one of those up). I had two lights (one on each side) and the flash pointed backwards with a big piece of white styrofoam to reflect it back to the subject.
Post Processing (Aperture):
* Cropped
* White Balance
* Increase exposure
* Increase black point
* Increase brightness
* Increase contrast
* Increase definition
* Increase saturation
* Levels
* Dodged background
* Repaired/cloned a few places
* Desaturated scissors to return original silver color
* Sharpened overall
* Sharpened scissors
* Export
* Resize - Graphic Converter
* Colorize background (white) to remove some cloth texture - Pixelmator
* Colorize background (light blue) to make subjects pop - Pixelmator
* Unsharp mask (large radius to add contrast) - Pixelmator
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