Stone IPA
They say that you should photograph things that you care about, so I'm happy to try and document some of the good beer that's available these days. This is Stone IPA which is my current go-to beer.
Lighting stuff: This is another attempt at lighting glass, which I find to be very difficult, due to the reflections. What little I've learned has come from the book "Light Science and Magic - An introduction to Photographic Lighting" which has an entire chapter devoted to this difficult subject. I've just acquired a roll of translum, and I place a sheet of it behind the bottle with a small black card (a little bit bigger than the bottle) between it and the bottle. I then fired a bare Yongnuo through the translum. This created the rim lighting. The lighting on the front of the bottle came from a two Yongnuo strobes in 24 inch softboxes placed on either side of the bottle in an attempt to create even balanced lighting. I still ended up with a fair amount of specular highlights, and spent some time in post cleaning it up. The strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. On the plus side, even if the picture isn't great, I did get to drink the beer.
Other pictures that I've taken of beer can be seen in my cleverly titled Beer album.
Stone IPA
They say that you should photograph things that you care about, so I'm happy to try and document some of the good beer that's available these days. This is Stone IPA which is my current go-to beer.
Lighting stuff: This is another attempt at lighting glass, which I find to be very difficult, due to the reflections. What little I've learned has come from the book "Light Science and Magic - An introduction to Photographic Lighting" which has an entire chapter devoted to this difficult subject. I've just acquired a roll of translum, and I place a sheet of it behind the bottle with a small black card (a little bit bigger than the bottle) between it and the bottle. I then fired a bare Yongnuo through the translum. This created the rim lighting. The lighting on the front of the bottle came from a two Yongnuo strobes in 24 inch softboxes placed on either side of the bottle in an attempt to create even balanced lighting. I still ended up with a fair amount of specular highlights, and spent some time in post cleaning it up. The strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. On the plus side, even if the picture isn't great, I did get to drink the beer.
Other pictures that I've taken of beer can be seen in my cleverly titled Beer album.