Glass Hours

Nuitée’s bottles are clear and unlabelled at the front, which makes them almost invisible on camera. We lit them from behind and the side with hard light through a slatted gobo, so the glass shows up as edges and shadows.

Each image is a stack of nine frames focused at different depths, merged so the whole bottle is sharp without stopping down past the lens’s sweet spot.

One set of packshots now serves six markets. Only the ground changes: oak, plaster and black glass.