Photographing wine glasses
Photographing glass objects is pretty interesting. A major difference is you don’t have to focus the lights on the objects, but at the background (this is with no liquids in the glass). Of course that is not a hard and fast rule. Like with any lighting setups, you can play with the positions, angles and intensities of the light to get different effects. All of these shots are right out of the camera with just a little bit of contrast processing.
The following were used for this setup:
- 2 flashes
- color gels
- black background
- white base
- cybersync remote trigger (can also use a wired remote…)
Here are some of the shots and their corresponding setup shots:
wine glass with blue and red gels
This is the setup for the above shot:
wine glass shot setup
The flash on the left has a red gel and the one on the right has a blue gel. The cybersync trigger is connected to the left flash and the right side flash is an optical slave.
A couple of shots using the above setup but without the gels and the glass at the rear:
wine glass with white background
wine glass with white background
some more…
wine glass (blue gel in front of glass and red gel on background)
wine glass
and the setup for the above shots…
wine glass setup shot
the setup shot from another angle.
wine glass setup - from a different angle
more shots to follow…
here is one with water in the glass.
wine glass with water
