Lighting Techniques - Bottle

For this part of the brief we had to take a picture of a glass bottle using different light modifiers - softbox, honeycomb, beauty dish and umbrella. I decided to use a decorational bottle since i thought it would look a little more interesting.

This image is taken with a softbox and a backlight behind the product table. I don't think the highlight along the side of the bottle is strong enough and the content of the bottle is a bit dark.

This image is again, taken with a softbox and backlight. This time i used the flagging technique (by putting black cloth over the softbox) to create a more defined highlight

This image is taken with a honeycomb. The light is a lot harsher since the honeycomb is much more directional, and it brings out all the marks on the bottle that you wouldn't usually see.

This image is taken using an umbrella, i think the lighting in this image is a bit flat, as there are no highlights on the bottle.

This image is taken using a beauty dish, beauty dishes are usually used for lighting portraits, hence the name. The lighting isn't that bad, but i think the big circle highlight is a bit distracting.

Overall i think the softbox with flagging created the nicest lighting, and it seems it is the most effective way to light glass since you can create defined highlights.