How to Set the Scene for Product Photography: Red Wine

Good product photography is often about invoking an emotion that suits the product or enhances it.

When we think about red wine we think about the colour red and warmth. But there is virtually no red visible in a glass or bottle of red wine but rather a much darker color - almost black. So the trick here is to invoke the feeling of red and warmth into the shot by using the right light. For this shot, Urs Recher and Karl Taylor built a simple set that would help invoke these emotions.

The props were a walnut table top with a nice rich colour and wood grain, some old brown rope, a brown mottled background and of course the bottle and wine glass, which I chose to shoot at a very shallow depth of field just to isolate the bottle and label in the shot.