Wine

I shot this for an assignment for my commercial photography class at RCC. We have self promo assignments that we can photograph any type of person, place, or thing that we would like to get experience with photographing. I was trying to photograph a dark red wine, but it was so dark that the light would not show through it to show the color. So, I ended up choosing a lighter wine to allow the light to show through. I used window light as a back light. I placed my subject on a mirror to show reflection in the mirror and I used a fill card to bounce light from the window back towards the label so it would show the label of the wine bottle. I shot this with my Canon 20D at 1/320 @ f/5.6.

wine set-up

This is my set-up...
I was photographing for a commercial assignment. This was my "homemade" studio. I was using window light to back light my subject (wine). I sat it on a mirror to show the reflection of the glass and the bottle underneath my subject. I also used a fill card to bounce light onto the label of the wine bottle. And finally, thanks to my youngest son, I used a container of Lego's because it put my subject at the right height to photograph and get my background at the right height.