[EN-ES] Wine Glasses on White Background - Copas de Vino en Fondo Blanco.

So, the process is fairly simple, iluminating glass or translucid objects it's simple on itself, but it has some tricks.

In this photos i used the same lighting diagram, these are the lights and modifiers i used:

• x1 - 3x4'Rectangular Profoto Softbox.
• x1 - 1000W D2 Profoto Flash.
• x1 - Rosco White Diffuser.

Obviusly we need the flash for the image to get iluminated. The big softbox creates an enveloping light across the whole subject/glass, and the white diffuser help us creating this black border or edge on the glass, this way our glass looks three dimensional, with depth, not looking flat.

For the Products/Scenary Itself i used:

• x1 - Wine Glass for your favorite local Store.
• x1 - Surface to rest the Glass on, i used a big ass piece of glass.
• x(Many?) - Fake Ice

Make sure you clean the glass very well, every fingerprint or little dust piece will appear on the photo and you'll have to clean in photoshop.

Camera Equipment:

• Nikon D3300
• Sigma 70-300mm DG Macro.

All the photos are in 100 ISO - f13 - 1/125s, that's because we are using a 1000w flash, so we want to use the minimun ISO of our camera, because it creates the cleanest image, with zero noise, we use f13 to have the entire object in focus, very important in this type of photography; with this being said, you should discover the "sweet" spot of your lens/lenses.

I recommend using a Macro Lens, this type of lenses have a flat crystal on the end, so it wont morph or distort the image (you can and should elminate the distortion in post-production anynways).

Post-Production Process

First of all, i use Capture One to create a Session, i see if the photo needs some light correction, in this case i used Black and White, so i don't have to deal with the light refraction on the fake glass, correcting the lens distortion, focus and so on.

When everything is done in Capture One i move on into Photoshop, opening the file directly from Capture One, i use the option to create a copy .PSD file, so i get the original and the .PSD one.

In Photoshop, with the Pen tool i create a shape around the glass, so i cut it from the background (in this case the Rosco Diffuser was very damaged, so i got every crinkle creating a shadow), creating a empty layer, filling it with white and using it as background. The ones with surface it's the original glass, and the one with a reflection it's a fake surface and fake reflection.

Then when it's all ready i clean it with some healing brush and that's all.

Hope you like it.

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