Photography · 7 min read

Mastering Glass & Light: The Setup Behind the Lumière Noir Campaign

A complete teardown of our lighting diagram, modifier choices, and post-production retouching workflow for shooting highly reflective luxury perfume bottles.

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Rahul Varma
Creative Director · Published Aug 12, 2024
Mastering Glass & Light: The Setup Behind the Lumière Noir Campaign

Photographing black obsidian glass bottles is one of the toughest challenges in commercial product photography. Every stray reflection reveals the room around it.

1. Light Scrims & Diffusion Grids

We used 6ft x 6ft diffusion scrims positioned inches from the bottle edges, creating subtle gradient highlights along the curved contours.

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