Burberry Goddess

Burberry
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Liquid
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Shiny
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Glass
Burberry Goddess.
Wonderland commissioned this to hero the Burberry fragrance. The bottle is warm liquid inside clear glass, and clear glass shot straightforwardly reads as empty. So the decision was to make it read as solid. Glass lit as metal, not as a window. I brought the key in hard and raking across the fluted cap so the facets cut deep shadows into one another, then pushed refraction through the honey juice until the bottle glowed from the inside rather than off the front. A warm gold-to-brown gradient with a soft hotspot sits directly behind, which gives the liquid something to carry and keeps the glow reading as depth. The bottle floats at an angle with no visible support, so nothing competes with the facets at the base.


A companion frame in the same set goes the other way, a rainbow prism halo bloomed behind a blue bottle standing on clear acrylic plinths. Olivia built the surfaces and plinths, which held everything off the floor and kept the reflections clean without adding a colour of their own. That control is what the rest of my luxury perfume photography depends on. Set design: Olivia Clifford. Shot in London by David Lineton.
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