Three Glasses - Red

[Manfred M]

I'm continuing to work and refine my bright field work.

This shot has three glasses lined up in a row, with the middle and back one with water in them. Red food colouring was dropped into the rear glass only, with the red appearing in the middle one as a result of the water refracting what is going on in the glass behind it.

[mugge]

This looks quite challenging to me, Manfred. I am looking at the horizontal line separating the red colouring and it disturbs me for some reason
Cheers Ole

[Manfred M]

it disturbs me for some reason

Thanks Ole - when I saw this particular image, it very much reminded me of what I imagine a lot of blood dripping into clear water would look like. The processing helped bring out that effect.

[Wavelength]

Liked it very much; how about a yellow, blue, green combination?

[Wandjina]

A lovely simple, well lit, tack sharp image. Well done Manfred.

[billtils]

I'm emjoying your journey Manfred and can appreciate your efforts, but it still misses the mark for me.

In this latest iteration the outer glass is complete but empty, the middle one has no stem but does have liquid + red dye, and the smallest doesn't sit at all well for me (literally - it is not grounded). Also the muddy red at the bottom doesn't look good.

[Manfred M]

I'm emjoying your journey Manfred and can appreciate your efforts, but it still misses the mark for me.

In this latest iteration the outer glass is complete but empty, the middle one has no stem but does have liquid + red dye, and the smallest doesn't sit at all well for me (literally - it is not grounded). Also the muddy red at the bottom doesn't look good.

I had assumed that you would prefer a shot without the lens effects that the water adds to the image. This is one of the setup shots I did to confirm alignment of the glasses, before I added the water.





One thing to remember about this technique; I am essentially shooting a special case of a silhouette here. The scene is 100% back lit (with one small cheat to create a white base). The dark rim I get in the shot comes from the light that is absorbed and reflected by the glass; the thicker the glass, the darker the edge. The rims, which are thinnest, absorb the least light and are the lightest parts of the glasses.

This is the SOOC shot of the glasses.with the back-lighting from the softbox. The light drop off makes the white paper I have the glasses look gray (inverse square law at work).




I also took a second shot where I lit from the top to give me a light table top. All kinds of nasty reflections on the glassware, but the white paper looks white.





The two images were combined in Photoshop to create the image. I changed up my table top lighting a bit and used a 22" beauty dish on a boom arm to provide the top lighting. My whole setup can be seen in this image.

[billtils]

I had assumed that you would prefer a shot without the lens effects that the water adds to the image. This is one of the setup shots I did to confirm alignment of the glasses, before I added the water

Indeed I do!