Downtown Brown
This is a fine brown ale that a friend introduced me to on a recent trip to the Eastern Sierras. This particular, and excellent, beer is brewed by Lost Coast Brewery and Cafe in Eureka, California. Young people who have only recently started drinking beer have no idea how good the range of beer choices today is compared to the way it was, say 50 years ago. Back then we were drinking bland, insipid and tasteless lagers like Lucky Lager, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Coors, Hamm's Beer, Miller, etc. This is the golden age for beer drinkers who appreciate the amazing variety and quality of beers that come from the many micro breweries that have recently emerged. San Diego, in particular, is home to an amazing number of talented micro breweries that put out a wondrous variety of good beer. These are the good old days.
Strobist info: I lit this with a 24 inch softbox behind the bottle to provide the rim lighting, with a black foam card, a little bigger than the bottle, acting as a gobo. The flash in manual mode at 1/4 power was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N". Because I shot this in camera Raw, I was able to pull enough detail from the front of the bottle to blend with the rim lighting, and produce the image you see here without using multiple exposures and blending them. I would say I spent about fifteen minutes in Photoshop CC refining this image. Beer bottles with paper labels are easier to photograph than the bottle with spray painted labels since the labels cut down on the reflections.
I've been photographing beer bottles and labels from some time now, and I put the results in a set called (of all things) Beer. Here's a link to that set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157634466859967/
Downtown Brown
This is a fine brown ale that a friend introduced me to on a recent trip to the Eastern Sierras. This particular, and excellent, beer is brewed by Lost Coast Brewery and Cafe in Eureka, California. Young people who have only recently started drinking beer have no idea how good the range of beer choices today is compared to the way it was, say 50 years ago. Back then we were drinking bland, insipid and tasteless lagers like Lucky Lager, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Coors, Hamm's Beer, Miller, etc. This is the golden age for beer drinkers who appreciate the amazing variety and quality of beers that come from the many micro breweries that have recently emerged. San Diego, in particular, is home to an amazing number of talented micro breweries that put out a wondrous variety of good beer. These are the good old days.
Strobist info: I lit this with a 24 inch softbox behind the bottle to provide the rim lighting, with a black foam card, a little bigger than the bottle, acting as a gobo. The flash in manual mode at 1/4 power was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N". Because I shot this in camera Raw, I was able to pull enough detail from the front of the bottle to blend with the rim lighting, and produce the image you see here without using multiple exposures and blending them. I would say I spent about fifteen minutes in Photoshop CC refining this image. Beer bottles with paper labels are easier to photograph than the bottle with spray painted labels since the labels cut down on the reflections.
I've been photographing beer bottles and labels from some time now, and I put the results in a set called (of all things) Beer. Here's a link to that set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157634466859967/