https://visualeducation.com/class/chivas-regal-photoshoot/

In this bottle photography class, you’ll learn how to craft the perfect lighting setup for a whisky image to be paired with a CGI background.  As Karl begins, he’s confident that the shoot will be straightforward. But it proves to be more challenging than expected, requiring some fascinating problem-solving and producing excellent learning opportunities.  You’ll watch him experiment with a wide variety of lights and modifiers, including softboxes, scrims, Fresnels, projection attachments, and more.  You’ll also see him use a range of props and reflectors as he works to create beautiful lighting for the bottle, its label, and its contents – plus the accompanying glass.  Particularly interesting are the lengths to which Karl has to go to achieve satisfactory caustics on the wooden surface!  Once he has the various images he needs, Karl demonstrates how to move them into Photoshop, merge them and undertake the necessary retouching, including removing the ‘halo-ing’ so that the bottle sits comfortably against the CGI background.  In this part of the class, you’ll learn various useful post-production tools and techniques.  He finishes by photographing a cube to help Ethan match up the perspectives of the bottle shot with the CGI background.