8 Tips for Photographing Drinks
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Bartender here... tip for the garnishes. You can shock them (what we do every shift before service). Take your basil or mint, and lightly submerge your bunch into a pitcher or cup of ice water. Let it sit for a couple minutes in the ice bath and then remove and gently shake off the water. This keeps your herbs bright and rigid for hours.
Awesome tip!
Another bartender here, using a propper polishing cloth can really maye your glassware look crisp and pristine. Im a personal fan of the Riedel Polishing cloth: www.amazon.com/dp/B000F2SRFS/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_awdb_joC8Eb42G2WW7
Yes, this works beautifully, thank you!
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I've been in the alcohol beverage industry for years, during that time I have been a part of several demonstrations and conversations regarding cocktail photography, I have to say this is the BEST tutorial I have yet to see on cocktail photography. Thank you for explaining things in such a clear and concise manner, I look forward to giving your tips and tricks a try! 🙂
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Yes! I've been waiting for this vid since you teased it, since all I do is cocktail and drink photography. Can't wait to put these tips into action
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Great tips! The funnel strategy is great. I can’t tell you how man times I’ve poured a drink and see the cubes or garnish shift as I bring it over to my prop area!
Having worked in Food N Beverage industry my whole life, I am now using that experience to educate, but also take my once side gig of photo/video-graphy to top levels, haha. Yaa So what Dave, HAHAHA I know,
But Hint: you salt on the ice, it acts like a subtle glue that makes the ices sorta all stick together. Cooks do it with there ice bins, it helps keep it together and supposedly slow the melting down, although I didnt really see the melting effect that much, but Im not watching ice melt, haha. So yeah sprinkle a good top coat of salt, table salt, and see how it helps, experiment with amounts and stuff. Hope it helps. PEACE
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came across your channel a few hours ago and just stuck :D Binge watching your videos is fun, being a person who loves photography, food and drinks. You are awesome! Really like your personality and your tips and tricks!
Beverage photography are one of the most difficult and challenging topics in product photography. Glassware, controlling the light and the reflections, making the drink and the whole scene look good and desirable. Sometimes there are bottles involved, or even some flowing drinks like beer. Foam, melting ice and things like that are challenging as well. This could be a really, really complicated thing, especially if you want to do a composition. Your video is great, just makes you want to mix a nice cocktail and make a photo of it!
Here are some other tips:
1. Learn to control your light & reflections: try out different "types" of light, directions of light, soft boxes / reflectors etc, experiment with some rotating polarisers for your lights.
2. Look at the scene from the camera perspective, get yourself comfortable, sit down.
3. Use a syringe to get rid of a liquid, e.g. if your ice melted too much. An electric pump is also a good thing to have.
4. Shoot things separately, trying to get them as good as you can step by step: the vessel without the drink and later on with the drink, then with some extra foam on top etc. When you're done, put everything together in photoshop.
5. Try to keep your camera as steady as you can: E.g. control it with some software.
6. Invest in a good camera stand (see 5.).
7. Think about some clever and fast way to control your lights (app / software), get some help to speed up the process.
8. Invest in some good tools (brushes etc) and keep them well organised.
Extra tip: Use compressed air to get rid of dust.
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Cocktail chemistry is my favorite TH-camr to study for drinks! He does one on making clear ice!
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Here is the link: th-cam.com/video/bUHcCHbgX_o/w-d-xo.html
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_Very helpful tutorial_
Loved the video! Can you make a video about photographing hot drinks? Thanks!
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If you don't have fresh garnish, pop some of the prepackaged ones in a glass with a bit of water for an hour. That's usually enough time to perk them back up! If they're 'closed', gently run them under water to open them before sticking them in the glass. :)
Great tip!!
I recently agreed to do a shoot for a drink brand and was searching online if you had any videos related to the same! So this couldn't have come at a better time ❤️
Best wishes on the shoot!
The Bite Shot hehe Thank you so much ❤️😍
Excellent video :-)
All of these tips rock BUT that funnel tip is friggin awesome.
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Could you please give tips about hot drinks, specifically coffee :)
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Do you have a video on how to shoot drinks in restauraunts or bars?
One thing you might run into when using an interesting glassware is the owner of the venue might not want you to use them because they don't normally serve their drinks in them. So be sure to clear it first with a decision maker.
The worst case of this that ever happened to me is a restaurant wanted me to photograph their special beverage in a foam take-out cup "Because that's what our customers receive." When I showed the examples on my cell phone how McDonalds, Arby's, Burger King, etc. use real glasses for their advertising photographs, not paper or foam cups they changed their minds.
Also, you might want the venue to have their supplier send over some brand new glassware of the kind they normally use in their food and beverage service. Otherwise, you might find yourself trying to clean used, faded, scratched, stained glassware. And as you know, every blemish and imperfection is going to be glowingly obvious under the gaze of a macro lens. The same applies for dishes, too.
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Atlanta, Georgia USA
Great point!
Bonus ice tips: Commercial photogs recommends Trengove Studios acrylic ice. each cube one of a kind and clear. Pricey tho. Another option for crystal clear ice is to freeze a larger bit of water in a cooler. Don't need to freeze it all, First half of freeze clear. pour off rest and cut to shape with serrated knife.
Oooh, I like it! Yeah, I've seen those $30 a cube ones...I don't do enough drink work to justify, but perhaps some day! Thanks for the tips!
current project is a beer shoot (husband is loving this one). any tips for manipulating the foam without deflating it? the other thing i'm running into is having to increase the shutter speed by a LOT to try and capture the bubbles, but i'm losing too much light in the process and having to bump the aperture way down and ISO way up. any suggestions or is this par for the course with natural lighting?
Wow, you were not joking. That condensation trick really is next level. Amazing.
Question - is it possible to spray without the matt paint ? Will the glyc/water mix not hold and just run down ?
Love this video ( like every other hahah). Love shooting drinks, very inspired. Can you share your Pinterest with us ?
Hats off.....
Is the matte spray required to help the glycerin mixture bead and stick properly to the glass? I have both, but would love to avoid spray painting my glasses if possible!
When I was shooting motion pictures (shows you how old I am) we used two types of dulling spray. A permanent type and a non permanent type which could be removed with a cloth. We also used the permanent dulling spray to spray glossy photography prints to make them look a bit Matte... I don't remember who made the non-permanent dulling spray...
Nice! If ya come across the non-permanent, give me a holler! Would love to share with the people at home
A funnel...duh! Now why didn't I think of that? Oh...because I'm not Joanie Simon. ;) Great info! And Ryan is hilarious, as usual.
After the Matte varnish is sprayed on, are you able to wash it off or is that glass permanently a prop?
Nice video. Are there any alternatives to latex gloves and the spray you used before the glycerine-water mix?
You could also just use regular cloth gloves. And for the spray, lots of folks use Scotch Guard or freeze spray instead
The Bite Shot thank you for information on alternatives.
When you use the matte clear spray
on the glass, the glass will keep painted forever or you need paint all the time you want make a new click ? Is this a paint ? Can you reutilize the glass again just washing it ?
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Do you think if you spray the matte onto the fake ice cubes they may look more real? Like less perfectly clear and fake-ish?
Instead of using mat spray, I have cheap deodorant (with talc), it works also fine with glicerine andits easier to clean. thx for tips.
You're adorable. I'm wondering if you have real ice in the glass, how does the real condensation react with the simulated condensation? I feel a good condensation is mandatory though. :)