Double Bastard Ale
This is one of the four varieties of Bastard Beer that was in the box I purchased yesterday. You can see that package in my previous post on Flickr. You have to admire a beer who's motto is "You Shall Know the Bastard, and the Bastard Shall Set You Free" and "Double the Arrogance". None of the relentless pandering and sucking up that we see from the old style, huge corporate breweries that put out an amazing array of insipid beers. This beer is produced by Stone Brewery in Escondido, California which is the largest micro brewery in San Diego County. As you can probably tell, I'm a fan of their beer.
Strobist info: This is another attempt at lighting glass. I haven't come close to mastering the technique, but the book "Light Science and Magic - An introduction to Photographic Lighting" has an entire chapter devoted to this difficult subject, and what I've learned has come from this excellent book. I lit it by placing a YongnuoSB560 in a softbox behind the bottle, and then put a piece of black foam board, a little bigger than the bottle, to act as a gobo, in front of the softbox, but behind the bottle. The flash was in manual mode, and was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. Because there was no light coming from the flash onto the front of the label, I had to take a separate exposure for the label and then do an HDR thing in Photoshop. Down below in the first comment, I have included a making of picture that shows the setup that I used for the lighting. It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it.
I enjoy good beer, and appreciate a clever or interesting label. Other pictures that I've taken of beer can be seen in my Beer album.
Double Bastard Ale
This is one of the four varieties of Bastard Beer that was in the box I purchased yesterday. You can see that package in my previous post on Flickr. You have to admire a beer who's motto is "You Shall Know the Bastard, and the Bastard Shall Set You Free" and "Double the Arrogance". None of the relentless pandering and sucking up that we see from the old style, huge corporate breweries that put out an amazing array of insipid beers. This beer is produced by Stone Brewery in Escondido, California which is the largest micro brewery in San Diego County. As you can probably tell, I'm a fan of their beer.
Strobist info: This is another attempt at lighting glass. I haven't come close to mastering the technique, but the book "Light Science and Magic - An introduction to Photographic Lighting" has an entire chapter devoted to this difficult subject, and what I've learned has come from this excellent book. I lit it by placing a YongnuoSB560 in a softbox behind the bottle, and then put a piece of black foam board, a little bigger than the bottle, to act as a gobo, in front of the softbox, but behind the bottle. The flash was in manual mode, and was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. Because there was no light coming from the flash onto the front of the label, I had to take a separate exposure for the label and then do an HDR thing in Photoshop. Down below in the first comment, I have included a making of picture that shows the setup that I used for the lighting. It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it.
I enjoy good beer, and appreciate a clever or interesting label. Other pictures that I've taken of beer can be seen in my Beer album.