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hhltdave5
Joined: 20 Jun 2006
Posts: 24081
Location: Our Stock, Food & Portrait photography books at www.rindersmithphotography.com
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 6:44 am
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| jutia wrote: | | rinder99 wrote: | | jutia wrote: | | hhltdave5 wrote: | The focus looks pretty good. Hard to tell with glass as things kind of blend in together.
What will kill it with this shot is the reflections. Glass is very difficult to do well and seeing everything in the glass reflected just takes away from the shot.
Also the glass does not look clean. When doing a shot like this that involves a glass it must be spotless. When doing something like this first wash the glass in HOT soapy water then rinse it clean by putting it in clean water that has about 1 tablespoon of bleach in the water per gallon of water. Then let it dry upside down on a rack.
When moving the glass around use clean cotton gloves to keep finger prints off. This may sound like a lot but if you are going to be doing food or beverage related images it is the details that are very important.
If you are putting liquid in a glass you will be photographing always do it at the spot where it will be photographed so the liquid does not splash or move around inside the glass leaving marks. |
cotton gloves, that kind of store I can buy? |
Any Paint store. Photographing Glass is tough when you first do it. Theres many tricks. The easiest and cheapest is to have a big wht board over your table and shoot light up. You just have to use flags,Blk Poster board. Theres a bunch of stuff on youtube. Just Put in Photographing Glass.Just tricks But as dave said. The glass must be pristine otherwise don't waste your time. |
what means pristine? |
Simply put make sure it has no fingerprints, streaks or other junk on the glass. Make sure it is very clean. |
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kellythorson
Joined: 22 Sep 2011
Posts: 696
Location: Canada
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 8:50 am
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If you can't get away from the reflections, try to make them fall on an area of the glass that doesn't have any important information in it (like the stand it is sitting in) and it is relatively easy to clone out the reflections of light, or at least parts of them, some light reflection is good to add dimension and contrast. |
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hhltdave5
Joined: 20 Jun 2006
Posts: 24081
Location: Our Stock, Food & Portrait photography books at www.rindersmithphotography.com
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:39 am
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Yes, glass is tough. As mentioned sometimes it takes a good deal of moving your lights around so the reflections don't show up in a bad place. You can also bounce the light up and onto the glass. The bad thing about that is if your walls are painted some color the light can take on that specific hue.
If you do not have the right equipment such as the scrims, flags etc you can try to use the reflection to your advantage. This will not work all the time and depends on the glass you are photographing.
Here is one of my images where I let the light source become part of the shot. I had my strip light camera right and positioned the light and glass so the reflection would fall just where I wanted it to which was on the edge. The black edging to the glass was done with some black poster board placed just outside the frame of the shot.
http://www.shutterstock.com/g/hhltdave5#id=3431372 |
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