Terry made me do it: Wine & Sherry

[Brownbear]

Thank you for sharing Mike... Very interesting, especially about the sherry.

So, you lose On the contrary, I win because I learned something new! Thanks, Mike!

Thanks, Christina!



It actually is possible to combine the two using just one capture. However, you are right that it is not easy in the sense that doing so would be very time-consuming. The time-consuming part would be making the sherry appear when using the dark background with the same color and vibrancy as it appears when using the bright background.

Notice that the color of the sherry in the first image is not vibrant, which is my primary objection to that image. The sherry is actually acting as a lens that displays the black background material. It's doing that in the image using the white background material, which is exactly the same size and position as the dark black background material. The difference is that the bright background shows the color of the liquid whereas the dark background disguises it.

Alternatively, I could combine two captures, which would actually be less time-consuming. Even so, I like the bright background so much that, for me, it's not worth the time to make such a much more difficult image knowing that I probably wouldn't like it any better and possibly not as much. So, you lose.

[Manfred M]

Mike - nicely done, especially the one with the "tipsy glass". I had to go back for a second look on that one, the asymetry of the shot really works well.

I wonder how it would look had you used the same colour of wine in both (two reds or two whites (although at this time of year I tend to prefer reds))...

[Mike Buckley]

Thanks, Manfred!

I wonder how it would look had you used the same colour of wine in both

Less interesting.

[Loose Canon]

Okay fine.

Yeah, sure. I’ll take the blame for this fiasco. I guess I’ll also have to come in and mop it up after its all said and done too!

But you sir, Mr. Buckley, are taking full responsibility for that vile “grape boilermaker” concoction I swilled the other night after viewing your inspiring photographs! I even used the good non-screw-top wine (must’ve been a bad batch of bourbon)!

These are of the Highest Order Mike. What strikes me is that the first two are almost identical in where the highlights strike the glass and liquid (dark field) and where the shadows strike the glass/liquid in the light field. Excellent textbook examples of completely different, yet very related techniques.

But I have to admit I like the third best for composition. Sometimes its amazing and very cool where inspiration comes from. Whether from an accidental tipping while breaking down a set, something somebody says, dropping a lightbulb on the floor, or swilling some disgusting libation (okay, bad example!).

Excellent, excellent work Mike.

[ST1]

I do like this set Mike, well done. The third image adds that little bit of drama with the tilted inner glass iysim

[Mike Buckley]

Thank you to Terry and Peter!

What strikes me is that the first two are almost identical in where the highlights strike the glass and liquid (dark field) and where the shadows strike the glass/liquid in the light field.

That's interesting to me too mostly because it proves the physics of light explained in Light: Science and Magic. I changed the camera position slightly before shooting the second image because for whatever psychological reason the bright field commanded a slightly different perspective for me. As much as was practically possible, that is the only change in position. The only difference between the two backgrounds is that one is dark and the other is bright; they are the exact same size and were positioned as much as possible in the same place. EDIT: Though I used the same 8 x 10 aspect ratio in both images, I may have also changed the position of the crop. I really don't remember.