Peg Leg Porker Bourbon and Sauces Shoot

Peg Leg Porker recently reached out for some fresh photographs of their new bourbons as well as a brand new sauce line and seasonings. I hopped at the opportunity to work with the Peg Leg Porker crew again. We always have a great time on set together talking about good bbq, good whiskey, and the state of the Nashville food industry. 

We started out with the hardest photos first the bourbon. These required a bit more tricky of a lighting set up to achieve. We wanted the dark background, but also needed so see some bottle glow. The key to good bourbon and beverage photography is to manage highlights and reflections. We don’t want to eliminate them completely because it will look fake and boring. They need to be reigned in to make a compelling photo. 

Consistency is the key to working with brands like this. Each bottle needs to look similar so that they look good grouped togeather

We then moved to some sauces. The magic sauce here was to keep a similar setup to the bourbon, but eliminate the backlight. The sauces are much more opaque so they don’t need a glow. The Peg Leg Porker white sauce is the best in the biz right now. I keep a bottle in my fridge all the time. We added in a few photos to so the color and consistency of the sauces.

We finished up with some photographs of the new seasoning line. We kept things simple here too. But we added some detail images.

This was a fast and furious half day of shooting. When we have a good team, that knows what they want to achieve we can get a lot of work done in just a half day of shooting. 

Nick is a commercial photographer based in Nashville, TN. He loves photographing BBQ, Food, Whiskey and Products. This shoot combined all the things. If you have a shoot coming up please reach out using the contact form.