Glass Over Wine


So many people ask me how I created this shot. Did I just impose a layer of red over a picture of a wine glass? Did I photoshop it like crazy?


Amazingly enough, this shot is fairly straight from the camera, with minor cropping and slight adjustments to tonality and saturation. But nothing far removed from the original.


I took a cookie sheet and lined the bottom with wax paper, and then poured red wine in it. The wax paper begins to take on striations and blotchiness, which I believe comes from extended periods of time in a liquid and being moved around, dented, and scratched.


I took an empty wine glass, and sat it in the tray and adjusted the two lights carefully so as to avoid any hot spots.


The actual exposure is the reflection of the glass in the wine. So the bottom part of the glass's base you see at the bottom, was actually at the top originally, and is part of the actual glass, not a reflection. Pretty cool, huh?

Glass Over Wine


So many people ask me how I created this shot. Did I just impose a layer of red over a picture of a wine glass? Did I photoshop it like crazy?


Amazingly enough, this shot is fairly straight from the camera, with minor cropping and slight adjustments to tonality and saturation. But nothing far removed from the original.


I took a cookie sheet and lined the bottom with wax paper, and then poured red wine in it. The wax paper begins to take on striations and blotchiness, which I believe comes from extended periods of time in a liquid and being moved around, dented, and scratched.


I took an empty wine glass, and sat it in the tray and adjusted the two lights carefully so as to avoid any hot spots.


The actual exposure is the reflection of the glass in the wine. So the bottom part of the glass's base you see at the bottom, was actually at the top originally, and is part of the actual glass, not a reflection. Pretty cool, huh?