Another broken wine bottle

[Mike Buckley]

It's another broken wine bottle. However, unlike the last time, I didn't break this one. It arrived broken. The good deal is that not only will I get a replacement bottle but I also got to keep and photograph the broken one.

Setup
This setup wouldn't have been possible without Terry's idea to make a snoot for a lamp by attaching a reversed reflector to the first reflector. He suggested it to someone in a thread quite awhile ago.

The tabletop is glossy black acrylic and the background is translucent vellum. First photo: A medium continuous-light lamp is fitted with a snoot mentioned above. The snoot's opening is partly covered with orange and blue gels. That lamp is shining toward the subject and camera through the background. Second photo: The foil is lit from the front with a small continuous-light lamp fitted with two layers of diffusion material to reduce the brightness. A reflector is also adding light to the upper area of the foil. The two photos were merged.

[deetheturk]

Very nice Mike, I love the colors on this one!

[bnnrcn]

Wow! Such a nice shot with lovely colors and reflections

[IzzieK]

Good shot, Mike...I like the colour combinations, but would suggest (too late now!) that you could have taken a shot of the mess too that it made on the box that it came with.

[Shadowman]

Very nice.

[John 2]

I Like that mike. Beautiful combination of colours. My only small thought is that you might lift the shadows on the bottle a little (but nowhere else). I always wonder about bottles delivered broken. A few years ago some postal workers were caught putting packages containing whiskey bottles into a pair of tights, hitting the parcel with a hammer and draining off the contents.

[Mike Buckley]

Thanks, everyone!

you could have taken a shot of the mess too that it made on the box

There was actually no mess whatsoever. The box and packaging materials inside were perfectly dry and devoid of wine stains. The only way my wife knew a bottle had been broken when she received the box delivered to her office was that the UPS driver told her that he could hear the broken glass rattling around inside. She opened the box while he was there and, sure enough, one of the bottles was broken. In fact, the only evidence any wine had been inside the bottle once I examined everything the next day was that there was a very small stain on the front label of the broken bottle and on the front label of one of the unbroken bottles. I would have thought the whole situation would have been a soggy, stained mess the color of red wine, but that wasn't the situation at all.