Blog Entry #6 - Wine of Glory (Painting With Light)

In this post I was told to do a painting with light picture, and I chose to shoot a picture of a wine bottle pouring blue liquid into a wine glass. The camera I used to take this was a Canon Rebel with a wide angle lens, and I shot at a shutter speed of 15 seconds. I tried to make my picture more unorthodox by putting the bananas and a red light behind them, rather than the typical fruit that goes with wine which is grapes. The fruit in the picture adds balance  to the picture and I also thought it looked too bare with just the wine glass and bottle. I changed the angle if the camera to make it look as if the light was in fact going into the wine glass and filling it with liquid, and made sure the hand and bottle were in good focus and exposure. In conclusion, I really like the picture I took, and prefer it to the other painting with light pictures in the class, because it is unique.