This part of the El­e­ments of Light is fo­cus on the use of color as an ac­cent­ing fea­ture of shot.

In this shot, I used a bot­tle of Irish Manor Leg­endary Irish Cream Liqueur that the PHDI de­part­ment has as a prop.

To light this shot, I used two lights, a main light and a color light. The main light is bare with a large scrim in front of it soft­en­ing the light. The color light has two blue gels in front of it which both knocks down the amount of color, but also makes it a bit more in­tense. I also used is a re­flec­tor next to the color light and one next to the main light. Both re­flect in the bot­tle pro­vid­ing form.

Be­cause the color light was a hard light, it was cre­at­ing a high­light that I didn’t re­ally want, so I put an­other scrim in front of the color light which soft­ened it nicely. How­ever, that also made the re­flec­tion in the rear a bit less intense.

Tech Specs:

Canon 30D + 17-85mm f/4–5.6 IS. ISO 100. f/13. 1/4″.

Big thanks to Ru, Robin and Beth who helped me out with the light­ing and to Clem for the back­drop ad­vise and of course to Mar­i­lyn for a few tips.