With that glass of red wine

Challenge #16 in the The Mystic Look of Mundane Life series. Hosted by Saswata.

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A table-top-photography challenge. But, a glass of red-wine is MUST.

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by christian jacob

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Camera:	Nikon D90
Lens:	Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
Submitted:	Sunday, 6th May, 2012 00:10 (GMT)
Taken:	Thursday, 1st March, 2012
Focal length:	50 mm
Shutter speed:	5 sec
Aperture:	F16
ISO:	200
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However you got this, spectacular final image! Could you please tell us a bit about your lighting setup, that is always a challenge working with glass.

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Yeah, the lighting... before I always had the light-source (then some neon tubes) under the glass, lighting it from below. But with the wine, this ends up getting too dark (for the wine, or else the rest is overexposed).

That time I especially wanted to make photos with red wine, after getting an idea for a rather easy lighting setup.
It's really just a softbox (well, a light tent used as a softbox...) shining against a white plastic sheet in the background, so it is a very soft and uniform light. The plastic sheet was leaning against a dark background, which emphasizes the borders of the glasses (it makes them darker)
And with glass I always use a cpl, so I can control (if not always eliminate) the reflections, and how the glass-borders look (hard to describe, it just has to be tried)

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And, wow, a score of nearly 4? Seems I really found and eliminated all the fingerprints on the glasses ;-)

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Thank you all!
I used a 7 inch monitor and liveview to help arranging the glasses (great help, because I didn't need to run back and forth...), and then didn't noticed that the first glass was a little out of line (I was too occupied with getting the upper part right).

So the "half" of the title also indicates you are seeing only half of the glasses -- I cut the photo in half and mirrored the left side.

And it makes me a feel a little guilty reading about the great composition, while knowing of my blunder shooting it... (and I even used rulers and a string to get the alignment right, just to be my usual bumbling self at the end...)
But, after all, with my means, I would never have got the symmetry that perfect, so perhaps I would have done the mirroring thing in pp anyway.

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Yeah! Composition here is great. Congratulations!

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wonderful

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Nice sense of composition...

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I would be surprise if this will not win this challenge. Great shot!

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I really appreciate your comment, and the comments below, so please don't take this in a bad way, but I think in the spirit of the challenges entries shouldn't be commented on while the voting hasn't finished, because that may influence the scores given (in both ways, good or bad)

Again, thank you very much for your comment, but please only comment after voting has finished.

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excellent shot!

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superbe !

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Or is that Half Full???...GREAT Shot...

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