Arabian Oil

I have decided I will be writing an article about the Arabian oil I purchased. I had a conversation with Emma about different ways of incorporating fragrance into organic lifestyles that isnt regular liquids in a spray bottle. One way of showing this is through organic essential oils, but with those comes risk assessment, whereas with this oil a person only needs a drop on the pulse point for three day wear. Only a small amount is needed and the ingredients are so minimal. 

I took the oil in and wanted to shoot it with one of my clear quartz geodes. The fragrance is called white musk so I wanted a crisp, clean prop to use in conjunction. 

I was really happy with the images I had taken in the studio looking at the camera screen, but importing them onto my desktop I can see the lighting is really bad, its far too low and I don't like how dark the background looks. While i like to have a slight grey tint instead of bright white, this is too dim. 

I do however think the oil looks interesting in the images, I like the bottle and as it is made from glass and metal these are good materials to work with my ethos. But thinking more about this being a fragrance still life, I need to find a way to produce a mood for the scent. When re-shooting this image I will try to achieve the luxe yellow filter and consider the rest of the images for the article. 

One last thing I really adore about this oil is you can rub in into the ends of the hair, which release the gorgeous scent as the hair moves. 

*Re-shoot*

I have been back in the studio with the oil and have captured some images I am really proud of and excited about. I had such a good session in the studio, I really enjoyed myself and felt content and most of all time passed so quick as I was really enjoying myself. 

I used the flash setting on the white balance adjustments, i know this is the correct setting to have but usually prefer shooting in auto for a cooler toned image. However I feel the warm yellow tint really works for this product and image. It is not exactly how i want the images to look but feel so confident once I have a play around in photoshop Im going to have my second shoot of final images I will be publishing on the blog.