It’s amazing what you can learn in a day. The first shot of the beer can I posted yesterday was a little flat – the lighting was dull. It didn’t give the can any life.

So I worked on the lighting, re-thought my approach, and went with a setup that created dramatic light on the can. Nice and bright down the middle, fading off nicely to near black along both edges.

I also addressed the sweat on the can – the first shot was sweaty, but the beads were too small. In this shot, I used a different technique and allowed the sweat to bead up nicely.

The shot is all accomplished in-camera – there is no Photoshop retouching done to this can. All that was done in Photoshop was to remove the support.

I think this version is starting to look a lot more appealing. It needs more time to tweak the placement of the sweat beads, but that’ll have to wait for another day.