Pomegranate Martini

[Runmonty]

Love these BF. Are you able to share your expertise and advise if they are backlit?. I tried some "wine in glass" shots recently (for the favourite things assignment actually) and all I ended with were heaps of refelections and discarded them. Yours are brilliant

[Marko]

that second one is cool as well - hard to choose a fave - I wonder...maybe show them side by side?

[Barefoot]

Are you able to share your expertise and advise if they are backlit?.

Not a problem, brother. I open a blank word doc in full screen mode on the iMac for the background and use one or two small led light-paks that were made for video to light the front. I had to build a little table to elevate the martini glass for framing and I put a white surface beneath the glass to try to keep the bottom as clear as possible. Turned out all the lights in the room and, as result, the surrounding blackness gave decent edge definition.

Unless you overexpose, even using some front light, you'll get a silhouette. But, you can do that since the background is already nearly pure white. Speaking of white, a WB correction will defiantly be in order during post as well as levels and/or curves.

Both of these were done High Key in Color Efex Pro, but they also went through, in this order, Define, Pro Contrast, and Glamor Glow before they were done in High Key.

[JAS_Photo]

I really like that second one!

[Runmonty]

Very clever indeed. Thanks so much for sharing.