Work — Jacob’s Creek · BFS Studio, Ho Chi Minh City

Jacob’s Creek— The Label Is the Light Source

Project details

Client
Jacob’s Creek
Industry
Spirits & Wine
Deliverable
13 finished frames · studio, set build and retouch
Year
2021
Credits
BFS Studio
The bottle standing in red and blue dry-ice smoke, label glowing cyan
( 01 )

THE BRIEF

A sparkling cuvée and a gift set that had to look expensive in a photograph, not in a description. The label already glows — a cyan outline on a dark bottle — and the shoot had to make that the reason to look, rather than another lifestyle scene with a bottle in it.

( 02 )

WHAT WE DID

One rule ran the whole shoot: the label is the light source. Everything else — glass, ice, gloss floor — exists to carry that light further. A single hard key raked along the label edge, black acrylic under everything for a full mirror, and a set list kept to crushed ice, cut cubes, dry-ice smoke, blue satin and marble. Near-black, electric blue, one gold accent, and nothing else.

( 03 )

OUTCOME

A full product shoot delivered for Jacob’s Creek — bottles, gift sets, ice and smoke — run on one rule: the label is the light source.

( 04 )

THE WORK

A single hard light raking along the label edge in a tall studio frame
One hard source, raked along the label edge
Bottle and filled flute together on black acrylic, mirrored in the ground
Bottle and flute
The bottle laid on blue satin, folds catching the light
On blue satin
Cut ice cubes stacked around the bottle, blue refracting through them
Cut cubes
Three bottles standing in crushed ice
Crushed ice
Wide frame of the bottle half-buried in crushed ice
Cold before the eye reads a word
Wide frame — red and blue smoke pushed against each other around the bottle
The one frame that breaks the studio
The ice-bucket carrier photographed on black acrylic
Ice bucket carrier
The bucket filled with ice, bottle inside
Bucket with ice
Three-bottle carrier with glassware arranged around it
Three-bottle carrier with glassware
The display frame holding the bottle at retail
Display frame
Night bar scene — the bottle on a lit counter
Night bar
Top-down arrangement on marble, glasses and bottle from above
Top-down on marble
Detail — the cyan label outline lit from the edge
The label — cyan outline lit from the edge
Detail — the gold J read through the wine in the glass
The gold J, through the wine
Detail — foil capsule and neck band
Foil and neck band
Detail — the label seen through a block of ice
Label in ice
Detail — the reflection on black acrylic doubling the frame
Reflection on black acrylic — the ground doubles every frame
Detail — the wordmark embossed on the ice bucket
Wordmark on the bucket
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( 05 )

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