AAARGH! NO TEXT! This is driving me crazy. The DPC rules clearly state no text. Yet the text element is required in an absolut ad. I'm quite sure if I put text in I'll get DQ'ed. I'm also quite sure if I leave text out then Murphy's Law will have everyone else put text in and I'll end up in the bottom of the heap. There's no win.
Anyway, I found this tougher than I thought. It's a good challenge. I've been wanting to practice my product shots, and this is a product shot with a specular, transparent, curvey object. What could be tougher?
I had a lot of fun though. It took me hours to get a staged setup for the classical pose, then I ran through about a half dozen different ideas. I had a backup plan if all these failed, but it was so labor intensive to get the classical pose done that there's no way in hell I'm going to plan B. :)
The "CLASSIC" is, of course, a bloody mary. Lots of recipes abound, but the simplest bloody mary recipe is just V8 and Tabasco. I added some black pepper to round out the composition.
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Very nicely shot! It just somehow doesn't have any real "punch" to it and can't figure out why. I'm sure it's doing well though because it is so well shot.
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