Recently, I have had a few assignments to illustrate various stories for the Food section of The Tribune. The two that I have enjoyed most dealt with wine stories. The fist story was on how screw cap wine bottles are becoming more popular, even with expensive wines, because cork is becoming expensive and there is no risk of cork contamination with the screw top bottles. The second story is similar, but on how boxed wines are becoming more popular with outdoor enthusiasts because glass is easy to break when hiking and each box is equal to 4 bottles of wine.

For both of these illustrations, I chose to light paint the bottles and boxes. This technique, as discussed in an earlier post is basically a long exposure ~30 seconds, where the main light used to illuminate the subject is a flashlight. For these photos, I used a combination of flashlights as well as an off camera Canon strobe (580ex) triggered manually to light the various elements of the photo.

Enjoy.