Guinness

nobody@flickr.com (Peter Brake) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:20:19 -0700

Hats off to so many of you, like Ian , who can pull off these epic Guinness shots time after time as well as other great strobist work, and Karen who does some amazing stuff with glass and light. This proved to be a much more difficult exercise than I had imagined, as lighting set up after lighting set up just led to more annoying results than the shot before it. In the end, it was a simple dark field set up that produced my best results. This is a one strobe set up, fired into a softbox directly behind the glass with a piece of black foam core (to provide the dark field) between the glass and softbox. A white reflector was used overhead and angled towards the glass in an attempt to light the harp and "Guinness" letters on the glass. In post, there was some cloning to remove the many dust specks on the glass which is providing the reflection, as well as resizing and the addition of the name.

Once again, I forgot to shoot the lighting set up, but it's basically the same as seen in this discussion thread (without the glass composite technique)... www.flickr.com/groups/technique/discuss/72157603718958589/

I will attempt this again when I have more time, as there are things I feel I can improve. CC is always welcome.

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