This is a red wine bottle on a black background and to prevent the bottle from blending into the background you have to light the edges to give it some shape. There are three types of lighting you can do to get this rim-like light of the shape of the bottle. The first is what you see here--a graded light fall-off camera Left and a sharp light camera right. The other two methods involve a graded fall-off on both sides and a sharp fall-off on both sides. The style you like determines the light placement. The labels are lit separately and blended together in Photoshop. My first encounter with a shiraz was about 20 years ago on a freezing Boston night. I asked the bartender for a wine I had never tasted and he poured me the shiraz. After finishing the wine, I nearly choked on the bill-$22 for 1 glass of wine. I thought that this must be a VERY expensive wine. When I came back home to Texas, I was doing some shopping in the local grocery store and found this same bottle of shiraz for $4.25 for a BOTTLE. I have never ordered wine at a restaurant since. The good news is that at that time I was in a local wine club and the stipulation was that you could only bring wine that was less than $5/bottle and so the shiraz fit the bill. The best description of the taste of shiraz is that it is very much like a cab but without the bite. Leave it up to the Aussies to find something better than a cab.   Posted: 02/05/2021 09:25:16

Thanks John -   Posted: 02/06/2021 23:28:49