Bitch Creek
A friend of mine who knows I like to photograph beer bottles with interesting labels brought this back from a recent trip to Idaho and Yellowstone so that I could photograph it. Sadly, it was empty, but it's still a cool label. People like myself who were brought up with uninspiring and insipid beer with boring names and labels (I won't mention names like Coors Light) celebrate the new micro breweries with great beer and kick-ass titles. Names like Pig's Ass Porter, Moose Drool, and Polygamy Porter come to mind, to name just a few. Anyway in the bold new tradition, I'm proud to display "Bitch Creek ESB Ale".
Strobist info: I set the bottle on a mirror, with a piece of black foam board behind the bottle, and a 24 inch soft box behind both of them. There was a YN560 in manual mode in the soft box, and it was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. The soft box provides the rim lighting, but I had to take seperate image of just the bottle for the label details, and then blend the two together in PS CC. A do-it-yourself HDR. About 15 minutes of post processing. Down below in the comments you can see a setup shot for an identical shot with the exception that this time I set the bottle on a mirror so that I got some rim lighting underneath the bottle.
Other pictures I've taken that feature beer, can be seen, logically enough, in my Beer album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157634466859967/
Bitch Creek
A friend of mine who knows I like to photograph beer bottles with interesting labels brought this back from a recent trip to Idaho and Yellowstone so that I could photograph it. Sadly, it was empty, but it's still a cool label. People like myself who were brought up with uninspiring and insipid beer with boring names and labels (I won't mention names like Coors Light) celebrate the new micro breweries with great beer and kick-ass titles. Names like Pig's Ass Porter, Moose Drool, and Polygamy Porter come to mind, to name just a few. Anyway in the bold new tradition, I'm proud to display "Bitch Creek ESB Ale".
Strobist info: I set the bottle on a mirror, with a piece of black foam board behind the bottle, and a 24 inch soft box behind both of them. There was a YN560 in manual mode in the soft box, and it was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. The soft box provides the rim lighting, but I had to take seperate image of just the bottle for the label details, and then blend the two together in PS CC. A do-it-yourself HDR. About 15 minutes of post processing. Down below in the comments you can see a setup shot for an identical shot with the exception that this time I set the bottle on a mirror so that I got some rim lighting underneath the bottle.
Other pictures I've taken that feature beer, can be seen, logically enough, in my Beer album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157634466859967/