I liked the angle of this image as I felt it highlighted the main theme of my series of images, with the vodka brand ‘Smirnoff’ recognisable and the party strings as a close up. However, I didn’t choose this picture as a final image as I felt having a portrait of a tall bottle was more effective.
This was the first portrait image that I took of the vodka bottle. I liked how bold the shadow was on the background, however I didn’t like the 
angle of the image, and felt like I wanted the object to be the centre of the image, rather than the shadow being a bold feature in the photograph.
Here are a few of my first attempts of taking a photograph of the bottle, which lead me to getting the correct settings of the camera and helped me capture my favourite picture:
I enjoyed experimenting with the different settings on the camera and trying it with difference forms of lighting in the mini studio I set up. I used a desk lamp to allow the object to become the main focus of the image. Initially, I was going to use a piece of paper to remove the harsh light from the desk lamp, however this made it too dark, like in the image above. Eventually, I got a well-focused photograph of the vodka bottle, with the lighting I was trying to achieve.
This then set me off ready to take pictures of the cigarette box and the pills, only having to make a few alterations to make it suitable for each of the objects.
When I first started capturing the images of the cigarette box, I wasn’t going to place the actual cigarettes in the image. However, I wanted the message to be clear in the photo, and I felt that it made the image more interesting and dynamic. I decided to place the cigarettes in front of the box, and I preferred the composition of this, however I felt the photo was over-exposed, and I wanted the ‘Smoking Kills’ text to be clearer as it helps to express the message of fun vs. danger. I then played around with making the cigarette box at different positions within the frame, and moving the party string to allow the text to show through, but let the party string fall naturally. Eventually, when looking back on all my images, I found the one I wanted to use.
Finally, I took photographs of the pills.
The first photograph of the pills came over extremely under-exposed, so I gradually increased the ISO to get the exposure I thought looked best. I also played around with the positioning of the pill packet and the pile of party string, and eventually found the composition that I was happy with.