There is only two hours left before this day slips into tomorrow.  I have never had such a hard time capturing my project picture.  I had an idea that I just could not execute on.  My wife had received a bottle of Grey Goose vodka for Christmas and I thought it was a very interesting bottle for a picture.  I was also thinking I could use the opportunity to learn more about Topaz Labs ReMask 3 filter.  Needless to say, I have more work to do in learning the program as well as how best to photograph a translucent object.

Overall it was a interesting learning experience for me.  Trying to setup a place in the kitchen with barely adequate lighting and a make shift background cloth was almost beyond my patience level.  The picture is not one of my favorites but I’m going to use it for today’s post as a reminder of the process I went through and what I still need to learn.

I found some black cloth to use as a background which I thought would provide enough contrast with the bottle to allow me to use the ReMask 3 filter.  I eventually gave up with the filter because I could not get a sharp enough mask in quite a few areas around the bottle.  Some of my problem might have been the lighting, I’ll have to experiment more when I have more time.

I went with a three image photo merge exposure process in Photoshop Elements to create my final picture.  I ended up adding some clarity to bring more detail to the image and words on the bottle.  I guess looking at it again as I write this it isn’t too bad, just not the image that was in my head when I started to create this picture.

I’ll try revisiting this bottle when I learn more about both the software and lighting.