Derby Day

Woodford Reserve has become my spirit of choice. It was featured in a newspaper article about 3 years ago. I ordered some while on a business trip to Chicago and that was it, Captian Morgan was taking a backseat. After successfully setting up a makeshift studio and photographing a Don Julio bottle that one sister-in-law wanted, I'd been wanting to add to my collection of alcohol/bar related photos.

Since becomming a fan of Woodford Reserve (no, this isn't a commercial.....really) I have seen it featured at the Kentucky Derby and on the sitcom Two and a Half Men and I have been wanting to get a picture of it I would be happy to display in my home. So last night gave me this.


First I poured myself a drink.Then set up my special edition Kentucky Derby bottle, first in plain light.
Then with a yellow cloth over the light.

And, another sister-in-law was nice enough to save some wine bottles from the restaurant where she works. So I spent some time with one of those too. Glass is so tricky to work with. You need light to expose the photograph, but glass gives glare and reflections. I still have lots of different lighting configurations to try, but at least I have a polarizer to help with glare and reflections. So far this is my favorite, the single light source was above and behind the bottles giving a soft light in general, but still enough glimmer to demonstrate the round shapes of the bottle and glass.