Glass lighting: Coca Cola

minicoop1985 · Feb 27, 2016

I'm trying it. I'm not good at it, but I'm trying. It would look better without it, I agree, and the CPL doesn't seem to take it away.

Gary A. · Feb 27, 2016

With commercial photography, post skills are at least as important as camera/studio skills.

minicoop1985 · Feb 27, 2016

That they are. I know how to do quite a bit, but dodging and burning I still SUCK at.

Gary A. · Feb 27, 2016

In the beginning set your density very low ... 10% to 15% ... you'll have to make a lot of passes ... But eventually you'll get there.

minicoop1985 · Feb 27, 2016

That's my problem. I always think "Ok I can do this in one or two passes" and crank it to 100%, then wonder why it's splotchy and terrible.

snowbear · Feb 27, 2016

Are you using a diffuser over the lamps?

minicoop1985 · Feb 28, 2016

I don't have a snoot/grid/barndoors yet. But I can cover that part of the table with a black piece of foamcore.

minicoop1985 · Feb 28, 2016

Here's my attempt at burning. I don't like doing it. It seems to eliminate colors too.

minicoop1985 · Feb 28, 2016

This may be a case of just not having the right gear.

Braineack · Feb 29, 2016

Find the YouTube video of lighting a bourbon bottle and glass.

using tapatalk.

Edit: found it.

minicoop1985 · Feb 29, 2016

I'll check that out a little later. How's about this? Going for that 1970s look that's popular today. Tried burning again, and didn't lose the color somehow.

Glass lighting: Coca Cola Vintage by Michael Long, on Flickr

Derrel · Feb 29, 2016

I immediately liked the green-tone feeling of this...I remember as a kid, how the old, old Coke bottles found around my grandfather's old barns and outbuildings had a greenish hue to them.

minicoop1985 · Feb 29, 2016

The glass does actually have that tone to it. I think my lights just blow that away, and this returns that look a bit. Also adds some detail where it was lost.

FotosbyMike · Mar 1, 2016

The white reflection on the bottle is from the strobes pointing down and bouncing off the white table. I would move the strobe so they are almost perpendicular to the bottle and add some diffusion paper/shower curtain/parchment paper/frosted plexiglass.... If your light stands are to high a. move your table up or get some Super Clamps or boom are with grip head.

minicoop1985 · Mar 1, 2016

I burned some areas of the bottle. I didn't like the reflections I was getting from the strobe being level with the bottle. It's not perfect, but I like it...

Glass lighting: Coca Cola vintage 2 by Michael Long, on Flickr