Great colours effect from the glass and background. As the days are getting shorter and the weather making picture taking outside difficult I may have to start thinking of some alternative type of photographs. With that in mind could you give a bit of a clue as to how you went about this.
I really like the warmth of the background and the blue of the wine. But what I really LOVE is the edge of the glass. Do you mind if I ask if the green is deliberate, or a result of the saturation? Just a thought - I would love to see the surface of the liquid an even darker blue - what do you think? Just my humble opinion, hope you don't mind.
@happysnap@barrowlane Hi guys - this was a desperation shot, in all honesty. As Rob has hinted, the nights are getting shorter, so it's back to finding different techiques an subjects for the last quarter of the year.
I'd wanted a swirly liquid effect, but couldn't get that without sticking a blender in the wine glass (with the undoubted calamity that would bring!) and it was getting very late.
So, it was a case of get the glass under a bright light (it was already full of blue food coloured water) and hit it with the macro lens. I've always liked that soft focus drifting into a sharp in-focus line, and that's what I went for. Then into Lightroom and hit it with soom contrast and a bit of vibrancy and clarity - the colours where there, they just needed to be pulled out a bit (including the green).
Fact is, the old macro lens can be a lifesaver - they're just expensive if you don't have one.
@snaggy Thanks for the info. I'm not looking forward to the winter having to do more indoor photography. I think I will have to, cheaply, rig up a mini tabletop studio of some kind with some simple lighting and see what inspires me.
I'd wanted a swirly liquid effect, but couldn't get that without sticking a blender in the wine glass (with the undoubted calamity that would bring!) and it was getting very late.
So, it was a case of get the glass under a bright light (it was already full of blue food coloured water) and hit it with the macro lens. I've always liked that soft focus drifting into a sharp in-focus line, and that's what I went for. Then into Lightroom and hit it with soom contrast and a bit of vibrancy and clarity - the colours where there, they just needed to be pulled out a bit (including the green).
Fact is, the old macro lens can be a lifesaver - they're just expensive if you don't have one.