Glass

This time, it isn't a glass of wine. It's a glass of small smartie-like sweets.

Long day and I was at the point where I was about to fade into the sofa for the evening and realised I'd not shot a picture for my blip. Wanted to try doing something commercial in feel, so cleaned (how often do you get the posh glasses out unless you use them?!) up a whiskey glass that's been sitting on the shelf since the whole set was bought for us at our wedding and set up to shoot.

Lessons learned:
Background has to be further away from product than about 6 inches where this one was. I used a couple of sheets of black art paper from the kids' craft box and I didn't try particularly hard to minimise spill.
Control your spill in some way so that your background is the colour it's supposed to be.
Control the light wrapping around the front of your object, especially glass objects.
A white background would have been easier to do with flags at either side to give the black lines down the sides of the glass if using a very quick and not too much effort setup like this.
Top light to highlight the sweets themselves has to much lower in power than I had it to reduce the pool of light around the glass.

Fun exercise in technical stuff and one which I think I'll repeat one evening