Shooting Glassware

At last I finally see the light! :)

Ok its confession time for me people. Basically I’ve had this problem for some months now and this problem has been that I’ve been struggling to take good quality shots of ‘Glassware’. For real, no matter how hard I tried then I just kept on getting inadequate results.

But today after watching many, upon many of videos on you tube with regards to shooting ‘Glassware’. I decided to give the ‘Glassware’ shoot another try. And now I am so glad that I did, because the reason being is that today was the day that this kind of shoot turned into being one of my best ‘table top’ shoots that I have done of all time (well to date anyway).

Let me explain this here people, with a pun, then I can honestly say that ‘I finally see the light!’ Yes, this means that at all times through out this ‘Glassware’ shoot of mine, then 'I knew exactly what it was that I was doing the whole time', not only that but I had also noticed that I did in fact have 100% full control over the lighting through out this entire shoot. Wow…. finally I can really say that? OMG, I’m really starting to learn all the required skills of what being a ‘Strobist’ is all about?

Also on this shoot I noticed that all of a sudden I just started working with ‘reflectors’ which as a result gave my images a very eye pleasing result, then all of a sudden I then decided to start working with 'filters' aka 'gels' too…. OMG… what is going on? I’ve never really worked with reflectors or filters before in the past, but now all of a sudden today I'm working with them just as if I’ve been working with them all my life! For real guys it all really did just start to naturally come together for me on this shoot today.


So yes I'm happy with this outcome today and yes I just wanted to share it with you :)


Regards

Gaz
http://www.strober.tk/

PS: These shots were made with 3 Light sources (One with a Shoot through Umbrella, One with a Soft Box, the other Bare Bulb bounced off the background wall. Reflectors and Filters aka Gels were used (Red Background).