About a month ago, I featured a photo of the Yacht Club Soda bottling company. That photo prompted one of my coworkers to bring in a bottle of Yacht Club Orange Soda since that was my favorite flavor as a kid. The bottle was unopened for about a month, but today I decided it was time to enjoy a taste of summer. The -7 F wind-chill outside may have had something to do with that decision. The good news for my coworker is that his refundable bottle is about to be returned.
To setup today's shot, I placed a brown micro-fleece blanket on a TV Dinner Stand and then draped it over my treadmill for a background. I used four clamp lights attached to the dinner stand, angled slightly upward instead of straight on the subjects. The bulbs were 40 watt Phillips natural light incandescent bulbs. I used a remote to control the camera while I poured the soda.
Post processing started with a classic filter in Topaz B&W FX. I then adjusted adaptive exposure, regions, and protect highlights. I applied a very heavy contrast adjustment to turn the background completely black, and then adjusted boost black and boost white. A sepia photo filter was added in PSE.
That's a great shot Ron. I enjoyed looking at in smugmug and seeing all the bubbles in the glass. The highlights on the glass are great. The liquid being poured has not been frozen, but shows signs of blur/movement - it's really all happening now. Just one thing: the glass is very slightly on the tilt? Are you sure it wasn't something stronger being poured!
@medusa < grin > The tilted glass was a bit of a camera trick, based on how I angled it on my tripod. It looked, well, "blah" straight up and down. As to it being something stronger, well, wasn't about to waste a good beer on the photo!
