Comments on: How To Light Glass

By: Kon Iatrou

Kon Iatrou — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 02:44:01 +0000

Great video on shooting bottles.

Can I take it that you’ve cropped out the background in the final shot displayed on the video above?

Also how would you get more color coming through the bottles to show more of the wine? Would you simply have a smaller strobe, say a off camera flash set to slave sitting behind the bottles?

Thanks :)

By: Casper

Casper — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:27:08 +0000

It’s a really nice tutorial, but what I’m kind of missing in the end shot was the transparency of the fluids inside. I realise this is a personal preference, but in a productshot like this I think it’s about the wine, not about the bottle, therefor I would like to see more of the fluid inside the bottle. I realise this is hard though, since it seems to be red wine in a dark green bottle?

Would it have been possible to shine light through it from behind, showing more of the fluids? Or was that just not possible?

Once again: great video, just curious why the shot was done this way.

By: c.d.embrey

c.d.embrey — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:20:29 +0000

You can get Clearprint 1000H from most art supply stores. Available in 6′, 4′, etc. rolls as well as sheets. I’ve been using it since the 1970s, good stuff. Rosco Rolux, 4′x25′ rolls, makes a good shoot through background.

By: LearnMyShot

LearnMyShot — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 17:24:00 +0000

Hi, thanks for picking up our tutorial for FS. We like your site too. you have some great resource here. Also shooters who try this technique can share their photo with other folks who tried it and get farther advise. you can post your images here:(using share your shot feature in comments) http://www.learnmyshot.com/How-to-Photograph-Wine-Bottles-on-White-Background cheers!

By: J.R.

J.R. — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:58:53 +0000

Vellum! I never would’ve thought about using that stuff for diffusion…Thanks for the great video!

By: Kennie

Kennie — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:49:56 +0000

Nice video!

Three things to think about:

1. The use of Vellum Paper is very important, because you will see all wrinkles from the softbox diffusor in the bottle reflection without that diffusion layer.

2. Use a gobo for the background light or replace the white background paper with Vellum Paper an put the flash behind the Vellum Paper.

3. There is no edge between the whine lable and the white background at the two outside bottles. Use black cardboard outside the frame to create those edges. :-)

By: Kellen

Kellen — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 07:17:45 +0000

Anyone who is really into this should pick up a book called Light: Science and Magic. Amazing text.