I have been wanting to expand a bit into drink photography and see if my moody edgy bold & graphic style fit with the genre.
First off was local rum brand: Lyon Rum Windon Distilling Company - Saint Michaels Maryland.
I spent three hours getting the lighting dialed in for this shot:
In the end I opted for a four light setup with scrim diffusion to create the rim gradient, a direct frontal strobe on the label, I was getting glare from a overhead key light so I opted to move it to eye level and voila no more huge key light reflection.
