Studio (Nikolovski): Week 1: Glassware Research

Lighting Glassware

After our first lesson Emily and I researched some lighting techniques and tried to find photographs of glassware.

This tutorial was really helpful in showing us the two techniques typically used when lighting glassware:

Episode 1 , studio photography lighting tabletop glassware

Examples

I am particuarly interested in photographing glassware with water and dyes - i love the interetsting effects and movement that water introduces.

The elements i want to include in my shots are: - use of deep colours using food dye - the use of water creating movement - perhaps breaking glass (cross my fingers!) found some examples of this too

These are the examples that stood out to me for reasons listed:

Absolutely awesome.
Love the smoothness of the way they poured the wine (or coloured food dye lol)
Probably wouldn't tilt it so much
Maroon dye or this colour in general looks fantastic - very eye catching
Possibly a little more outline on the left hand side of the glass needed

What an amazing effect - don't know if OH&S will allow me to do this lol but I would definately love to do some kind of shot encorporating broken glass.... safely of course:)

Love the repetition and that the last one is smashed.... Could this be done in a fish tank? If it were my shot I'd remove the bottom right glass -it's a bit distracting Otherwise an awesome idea

Maybe something was thrown through this one and it was captured when it just made it out of the frame?
Or photoshopped,
these days you never know,

would straighten the horizon to make it parallel,
and use a different surface with a 'cleaner' look rather than one that is purple and looks painted on

What I like about this one is the definitive highlights around the edges - maybeslighttly overdone but it shows you how effective lighting can be with a simple black background, reflective surface (either mirror or black material with glass on it) can be.

Not sure what is on the bottom right edge of the frame, bit distracting

A few odd reflections

Otherwise an awesome shot

LOVE THIS IMAGE!!!! DEFINATELY WANT TO TRY THIS,

I'm guessing the wine was thrown to land like that in a 'J' but I still don't know how possible it is....

The vingette is a bit fake and overdone but the spotlight effect (a little more subtle) will look amazing

Red and black work well together, as well as the black reflectors outlining the glass

Genious

Amazing. What a cool idea - might try this with something else. If you can't get ridd of it in the shot, include it!! lol

What happens when you don't outline glassware properly....

details lost in the stem of the glass - completely blown out.

What I liked about this shot was the actual subject matter - the patterns on the glass are interesting

I don't know how artificial this lighting is (i.e. whether it was edited, or completely done on the computer!) but what stands out is the opposing balance;

The top of the glass is gradiated upwards, and the background is gradiated the opposite way. No idea how they would have gotten the glass like that...

Geoff - is this possible completely in the studio? To me it looks like a lot of post processing

Like the idea of the 'source' being included in the image (the top of the beer bottle)

Simple but effective

I really like red as a background.

Don't really like that the wine looks so small compared to the wine glass, or the colour of the wine and not to mention that the banding or interpolation,

The lighting could be better too.

So basically i just like the red lol

Possibly an already broken glass, just the wine poured in drastically?

Swirl effect - awesome. Will definately try

Simple but effective - make glass glued/stuck to table top, tilt it, position camera parrallel to stem of glass.