Polygamy Porter
You have to love a beer from Utah named Polygamy Porter who's motto is "Why Have Just one!". We were in Utah last fall, and got to try some of this excellent porter, and my biggest regret was not bringing some back to photograph, and consume. A friend of ours just returned from Utah, and was kind enough to bring some back to share. I love Utah, but they have some of the most bizarre rules governing beer of any state. As an example, if you go to a brew pub, and they brew the beer there, you can have it in the strength that the brewmaster intended. However, beer sold in grocery stores can't exceed 4 per cent alcohol. That being said, the brewmasters in Utah put out some excellent 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-II 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.
Polygamy Porter
You have to love a beer from Utah named Polygamy Porter who's motto is "Why Have Just one!". We were in Utah last fall, and got to try some of this excellent porter, and my biggest regret was not bringing some back to photograph, and consume. A friend of ours just returned from Utah, and was kind enough to bring some back to share. I love Utah, but they have some of the most bizarre rules governing beer of any state. As an example, if you go to a brew pub, and they brew the beer there, you can have it in the strength that the brewmaster intended. However, beer sold in grocery stores can't exceed 4 per cent alcohol. That being said, the brewmasters in Utah put out some excellent 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-II 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.