Alternative Studio Shoot?

After having the lighting workshop today (photographs to be uploaded soon!), I decided a watch would not be an interesting and visually pleasing product to photograph. I have done some in depth research on watch photography in the past few days, and have not been able to find any substaintial research to support my proposal. Therefore, I have been researching into different ideas and have come up with a product studio shoot for Barry M nail varnish.

I have just wrote my proposal, and used the evidence I have found on the Barry M website, Opi promotional material and a studio shot I found on Flickr to support it. The Barry M product shots were quite basic, using front facing studio lights to eliminate shadows, as well as making the nail varnish the main focus of the photograph. However, one shot I did find (below), gave me more ideas about composition and other items that may benefit my product shoot.

Banner from www.barrym.com

The items featured in this photograph benefit the pastel shades of the nail varnish well. The sweets add a playful and feminine feel (through the use of colour). I want to try this idea of using different items that compliment and benefit the item, to convey a certain feel and attract a certain type of audience (being a person who buys this product personally, I think I will find this easier to achieve, as I am within the target audience I want to address by producing these photographs)

Banner from www.barrym.com

I love the way that this shot has been composed, especially how the nail varnish is flowing out of the bottles and the fast shutter speed the camera used has captured this well! Although I'm not sure if this would comply with health and safety regulations of the University studio, I would like to try this on a smaller scale, maybe involving one bottle being poured from a height into a container to be reused (as I'm skint and can't afford to waste multiple nail varnishes at £2.99 each!)

Banner from the Opi website

The banner of competitiors website, Opi, also used fast shutter speed to capture the movement of the nail varnish from a height. This would probably be a better experimental method of capturing my product, rather than pouring bottles, as it would be much more likely to comply with health and safety regulations than the other idea would be!

I will need to do a makeshift studio shoot, like I did for the idea of watches, to see if this will work before I continue the idea into the studio for real.