Thanks for your comments. The two main lights were 320 watt monolights at about 3/4 power. (Monolights have built in power supplies.) One is to the left of camera just above lens height. The other is to the right of camera, about two feet above lens height. Both are pointed backwards and firing into white umbrella reflectors. The third flash is a 150 watt unit with a snorkel and a blue gel. I held it inches away from the glass. You can see it in the unretouched photo that I've posted. One of the big flash units is connected to the camera with a PC cord. The other two units are set up as slaves. I shot this at f11 or f16 with the *istD on manual. As you can see, I had to rotate it about 1/2 degree. I also had to retouch a bad spot on the top of the lime. I may have made it too sharp with the clone tool set to an excessive hardness. The ice is in a baking pan. You can see the front edge here before the crop. The rear edge is visible in two small spots. I cloned ice cubes to cover those spots. And of course I cloned out the snorkel light. That's a simple matter on a black background. Hope this helps.
Here's the unretouched shot:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2992713&size=lg
On Dec 29, 2004, at 10:56 AM, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Paul Stenquist wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 7:43 PM Subject: PESO: Blue Cocktail
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2991355&size=lg
Thanks Ken. It's water and blue food coloring. I did some other shots with a wedge in the glass, but I preferred this in the final analysis. I may post a couple of others.
Due to lack of time, I opted out of PESOs but was quite pleased to get this one. It looks very good; I really like the blue on black and the lime-green on black. The texture of the ice is also great. I have one quibble with the edge definition of the lime; it is so sharp(ened???) that it looks like it's later superimposed.
With respect to the wedge idea (and the lime looking out of place), I think that the glass and lime could be on different depths to give the picture a bit of, err, depth :-) Perhaps glass at the front and lime at the back? Or vice-versa? However, this would be a different picture to the one you envisaged and successfully shot.
Speaking of which, you would not happen to have a picture of your flash setup, would you?
I will learn a lot from a critique on my critique,
Kostas
