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Playing with your food

Playing with your food

From the course: Learning Food and Drink Photography

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Playing with your food

We call this movie "Playing with Food," but we're going to start by playing with a drink. We're going to be doing a pour shot first. Pour shots are always exciting, because no two are alike and even when things go wrong, things can be right. So I have my beer glass here that's already been prepped to look as if it just came out of the cold box. You might remember how we did that back in the chill movie to create the chill. Now, I've already taken off the masking tape that we had on for the prep work and remember, the glass is room temp as well as the beer bottle. And you would do the same thing if you were using, say, root beer, or anything else. You can see I'm using my strobe light through a piece of plex, like I've shown you in some of our other movies. The plex is going to give us that beautiful diffuse light on the specular surface of the glass and the bottle, and at the same time will light my tombstones that I've placed out here behind the glass and the bottle. So let's take a…

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