MISS DIOR
A packaging compositing exercise exploring how light can turn a single product photograph into a floating floral fantasy.
Client
Academic Project (Conceptual)
Services
Compositing
Photo Retouching
PROJECT OVERVIEW
This project takes one original product photograph — a single bottle, shot and lit in studio — and rebuilds its entire world around it. The task wasn't to design a package, but to construct the environment a package lives in: sky, flower, light, and reflection, layered until the seams disappear. The goal was believability, not realism — a scene that never existed, made to feel like it always had.
Unlike the sky, the flower, or the bow, the bottle wasn't sourced — it was photographed by hand, in a space set up just for this shot. That single decision shaped everything else: every added element had to bend toward its lighting, not the other way around. Reflections, shadow falloff, and color temperature became the language every other piece had to learn to speak.
Getting there meant working backward from one fixed truth. The bottle's real, hand-shot light — its highlight placement, its shadow density — became the rule the rest of the composition had to follow, rather than a mood to loosely match.
The bottle was real before it was ever composited
The retouching itself stayed restrained: precise selections around petal edges and bow texture, but always secondary to the larger problem. Masking is invisible work — light is what the eye actually judges.
In the end, no one is meant to notice the compositing at all — only the light that makes it believable.
NOT A PHOTOGRAPH OF A MOMENT — A PHOTOGRAPH OF A DECISION, REPEATED UNTIL THE LIGHT AGREED WITH ITSELF.
This project is a conceptual academic exercise and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or created for commercial gain in association with Parfums Christian Dior. All trademarks and brand assets belong to their respective owners.
MISS DIOR
A packaging compositing exercise exploring how light can turn a single product photograph into a floating floral fantasy.
Client
Academic Project (Conceptual)
Services
Compositing
Photo Retouching
PROJECT OVERVIEW
This project takes one original product photograph — a single bottle, shot and lit in studio — and rebuilds its entire world around it. The task wasn't to design a package, but to construct the environment a package lives in: sky, flower, light, and reflection, layered until the seams disappear. The goal was believability, not realism — a scene that never existed, made to feel like it always had.
Unlike the sky, the flower, or the bow, the bottle wasn't sourced — it was photographed by hand, in a space set up just for this shot. That single decision shaped everything else: every added element had to bend toward its lighting, not the other way around. Reflections, shadow falloff, and color temperature became the language every other piece had to learn to speak.
Getting there meant working backward from one fixed truth. The bottle's real, hand-shot light — its highlight placement, its shadow density — became the rule the rest of the composition had to follow, rather than a mood to loosely match.
The bottle was real before it was ever composited
The retouching itself stayed restrained: precise selections around petal edges and bow texture, but always secondary to the larger problem. Masking is invisible work — light is what the eye actually judges.
In the end, no one is meant to notice the compositing at all — only the light that makes it believable.