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Challenge: Drink (Standard Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-600D/T3i Rebel
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f1.8
Location: Italy
Date: Jan 21, 2023
Aperture: 1.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125
Date Uploaded: Jan 21, 2023

 Finally a chance to use my 50mm at f1.8 :) A simple shot, but an important one. For an upcoming project I need to produce some shots of a very special whisky glass. This was a great learning shoot about the benefits of continuous lighting in this case and also things to watch out for when shooting drinks.

Fingerprints, dust, condensation and rapidly melting ice to name a few :)

Happy birthday DPC!

Post-challenge - Thank you so much for my first blue! I was excited by this one when I saw it in camera and knew we had something special, but it was for the context of what we could do with it for the campaign for our upcoming whisky deck more than anything.

I've since made some changes to the setup we'll use but the general idea will remain and I'll be sure to share them when we do the full shoot.

Thank you for the support and I'm glad you enjoyed the image! For anyone curious about the lighting it's simply some Christmas lights placed as far back as possible from the subject and a very narrow depth of field on the glass itself which is lit with two continuous lights directly and only from the sides which highlights the shape of the glass. So your key light in this instance is actually two, and doesn't light the front of the subject. I got this tip from a tutorial of course.

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Place: 1 out of 11
Avg (all users): 7.3333
Avg (participants): 6.8333
Avg (non-participants): 7.4583
Views since voting: 199
Views during voting: 61
Votes: 30
Comments: 11
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 02/14/2023 02:00:36 AM
Thank you everyone! I'm super pleased that my first blue is a photo I'm really proud of. Thank you all for voting!
 02/12/2023 06:39:38 AM
Congrats! And good luck with your campaign advertising.
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 02/11/2023 06:06:25 AM
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 02/11/2023 06:05:50 AM
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Message edited by author 2023-02-11 11:07:08.
 02/11/2023 06:04:35 AM
Congratulations Anthony on your first, and well deserved blue. Very professionally done shot. Looks so appealing... also perhaps because I love me a good dram )

Message edited by author 2023-02-11 11:07:38.
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 02/10/2023 10:21:24 AM
Well done!
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 02/10/2023 05:38:19 AM
Congratulations, My top pick for this challenge.
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 02/10/2023 02:19:12 AM
That̢۪s some awesome bokeh! Congratulations on your blue!
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 02/09/2023 07:19:11 PM
Congratulations on the blue. Awesome bokeh!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/09/2023 05:48:03 AM
In my top three for this challenge.
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 02/08/2023 02:43:03 AM
Nice bokeh balls!
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