Four Beers

Strobist Information:

The beer bottles are sitting on a sheet of glass on top of an open ended cardboard box. In the bottom of the box is an Elinchrom D-Lite 4 flash head pointing straight up. On either side of the bottles are two SB-28's in large soft boxes pushed up close to the edge of the bottles. Both are set to 1/2 power (I think). All the flashes are fired by PW's. The background is seamless black paper and there is a length of black velvet draped on the inside back wall of the cardboard box.

I learnt my lesson from the last time I tried this setup and polished everything first to remove as much dust as possible, however I still had to clean up the glass surface quite a bit in Lightroom. I also touched out the back edge of the glass.

Setup shot here (although not of this actual shot): Setup shot

For a more detailed description of the setup, check out this article on DIYPhotography.net called Floor Lit Table Top Studio Project

Many thanks to Udi Tirosh for publishing this.

Many thanks also to David Hobby for putting this shot on the strobist.com website: DIY: Light Beer