Gotta Lotta Bottle pt 3.

Some examples of the photos taken in the lightbox in this post.
As i said in post pt.2 it still requires a better light source and currently i'm editing them by adjusting the brightness post picture.

Pen-lon Chocolate Stout






















Meantime London Porter

 Some pictures I've taken have shown quite a bit of reflection in the bottle, i'll have to learn how to prevent that.
Practise shot.

Gotta Lotta Bottle pt 2.

In starting construction of the light box I pretty much followed the web advice, my box was not quite square, and the longer sides were a little flexible so rather than remove the top flaps I cut them down and doubled them over and tapped them up for a little extra stability.

I actually used a sheet of A1 white card rather than order ‘Bristol board’ and for the material I bought the cheapest white sheet from Tesco. I fitted the white card inside and glued it in, and then put the longer curved length in. Masking tap placed the material around the outside.

 

I bought a cheap desk lamp and placed the brightest bulb I had but as you see from this photo this is not adequate. I need to get a bulb similar to the one described in the instructions. However the first shots i took are not to shabby, i'll put them up next.

Gotta lotta Bottle pt 1.

Amongst my aims for this year of trying more beers, and promoting good welsh beer to you  dear readers, was the aim of improving my blogging.
One aspect of that was to also improve my photography, and to that aim i looked at other beer shots on Flickr and decided as a little DIY/Blue Peter thing to build myself a light box. A quick google and the first entry is practically this instructional post.
I have followed this, its really easy, with a few slight alterations along the way. The reason is to go from photos like this (my half way stage refreshment)

to this (the lighting does need altering but you get the jist)

More to come soon.