RGGEDU – Beverage Photography & Retouching with Rob Grimm

Beverage photography is a specialty requiring extensive knowledge of lighting, glass, and liquids. Yet that knowledge alone will not yield striking images without emotion as the driving force. Emotion in beverage photography? Absolutely.

Rob Grimm has spent his career immersed in the world of beverage photography and he will show you his methods, tricks, and workflow for creating the images that have made him an industry leader.

THE BEVERAGE PHOTOGRAPHY STEPS

Rob will share with you his method for generating portfolio ideas that will make you rethink your entire approach to creating images. The steps he takes in every bottle, glass, pour, and shoot is ultimately the same and focused on the details. He shows you though decades of experience how he lights, styles, and composes every shot leaving no detail out. Then, you will work with Earth Oliver in Photoshop to bring the images to life.

• Bottle Prep
• Build a White Line/Black Line Set
• Build a Storyline
• Create Character
• How to Make a Cocktail Look Incredibly Appealing

A BULLETPROOF WORKFLOW TO MAKE INCREDIBLE IMAGERY

In this beverage photography tutorial, you will see Rob’s entire process for creating amazing images by breaking the composition down into its parts and obsessing over the details. You will learn the foundations of beverage photography from capturing a bottle on white, photographing cocktails including drink styling, proper use of ice, realistic condensation, creating appetite and appeal, and the use of duratrans to make an image that appears to be shot on-location with all the control of a studio.

PERFECT EVERY LAST DETAIL

In Photoshop, world-renowned retoucher Earth Oliver, will walk you through the best methods to bring polish to your beverage images that stand out from the crowd.It is our hope that learning the foundations from beverage photographer Rob Grimm will help you to be able to think in a different way, and be able to make images in a different way. At the end of this, your portfolio will forever be changed.

Learn the classic lighting of white line black line and provide your clients with the exact images they need for their library of images for catalogue, commercial, and social media. They will love you for it.

ABOUT ROB GRIMM

For three decades Rob Grimm has worked as a commercial photographer in the advertising industry. His focus and passion are food and beverage photography with an emphasis in glass and liquids. Rob is a creative problem-solver with extensive experience working with creative directors for brands like AB+InBev, Bacardi, Kraft, Grey Goose, and Jack Daniels, helping them bring their creative visions to life.