Sancerre: White wine being poured into a glass

[TonyW]

To make that perfect shot Mike will have turn himself into a AA candidate...

Which is why it was so hard to pour the wine without spilling!:roll eyes:

Very nice shot. It is nice to see wine looking like wine should. But what's your next one going to be?

[Mike Buckley]

Thanks to Marie, Bobo and Tony!

Tony asked what my next one is going to be. It will probably be a close-up of the top of a wine bottle.

[rpcrowe]

Thanks for the in-depth explanation on how you made this excellent photo!

[Rob Ekins]

Beautiful Mike!

Is the image a composite or single image?

The wine between the bottle and the bowl appears to me to be clear where as the wine in the bowl has a more traditional wine colour. Do you know why this is? I am viewing on a recently calibrated monitor.

[Mike Buckley]

Your monitor is fine, Rob. Thanks for bringing your concern to my attention. It's always nice to have such critical eyes viewing my photos.

I believe the color of the direct reflections defining the shape of the bubbles being different from the color of the direct reflections defining the shape of the other wine is explained as follows (using more detail than you probably require to allow some hand holding for people following along who don't understand this stuff as much as you do):

The direct reflections by definition are mirror images of the light source. The light source is white, so the shape of the wine not yet in the bowl of the glass is also defined by white tones. (That's also true of the shape of the glass.) The shape of the bubbles is defined by yellow tones because they are immersed in a relatively large amount of the yellow wine, which has the same effect as if I had placed a yellow gel over the light source; doing so would have produced direct reflections in yellow tones because that would have been the color of the light source.

However, if I had actually placed a yellow gel on the light source, the bubbles would have been defined by yellow tones that would have been darker than the yellow tones of the other wine. So, there still would have been a difference in color. (The shape of the glass would also have been defined in yellow tones, which I definitely would not want.)

This difference in color doesn't bother me, but I understand why it would bother some. That's why I appreciate you mentioning it. On the other hand, if there was no difference in color, that wouldn't bother me either. So, I made that change during post-processing in the image shown below and have kept the change in my master file.

You asked if the image was shot in one capture. It was.

[Brownbear]

Exquisite as always... I adore the bubbles in this one but I must say that I also loved the first of the other series, for all the same reasons but also for the deeper gold colour of the wine even though the wine is not as transparent as seen here.

This has been a very interesting and informative thread.

[Kaye Leggett]

Oooohhhh I can taste that picture, very lovely. And better than the white rioja currently in my glass

[Mike Buckley]

Thank you to Christina and Kaye!

white rioja

Most people have never seen a white rioja, much less drunk one. My hat is off to you!

[Rob Ekins]

Thanks Mike,

It was as I suspected.