Last night I had a bit of a creativity spark and started playing around with a mosaic project of mine - however, as I have no glass, no frame, and no other supplies and don't really have the means/time/space to do the project, I started searching for something else to work on. I really like pen-and-ink drawings and they are comforting to do while listening to music or watching tv in the background. I got the great idea - hey, how about I make some future kitchen art (maybe) of a wine bottle or multiple wine bottles? Did a little searching online to find examples and started my search for a particular label... Then it hit me... Why do a time-consuming project when I could just take pictures of the real thing and convert them into black and white?
Come to find out, there were a few problems. Some I can't exactly help - I currently only have two bottles of wine. Some of the other problems I'll have to find a way to fix. The major one was composition - I tried using two red napkins as a backdrop of sorts, but frankly the wine bottle was tall and I ended up with some unattractive backgrounds. Also, because I was trying to control my background and get as little of it as possible in the picture, my subjects suffered. I don't have the entire bottle in any of the pictures (or the entire glass for that matter). Nonetheless, I'm somewhat happy with a couple of them. Doesn't really make my day better, but gives me something to do for a while.
Used my macro setting to highlight the bottle, leaving the glasses in the background blurry.
This image is interesting in that you should actually be able to see the two napkins overlapping each other, but I used the spot remover tool in Lightroom to make it seem...well...seamless. If you enlarged the picture you could see that there are a couple of defects, but overall I like the result and think it looks pretty cool. I think the red napkins looked ok for a backdrop.
I didn't edit the seam out of this one.
I suppose the background in these last few isn't horrible, but it is a little busy and could be distracting.
First Italian vino!
The two color photos of this wine weren't enhanced in any way except to reduce the noise evident in the wine glasses.
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