Working with glass, how am I doing?

[bieber]

I've started working on shooting glass lately, while reading Light Science and Magic: what do y'all think? What should change? I tried putting some nice broad highlights on the flaming glass shot, but as it turns out I'm gonna have to get a softbox for that one: umbrellas reveal themselves perfectly in the glass...

[cdifoto]

I don't see a pic?

[bieber]

Wow, you people are fast :O Forgot to attach at first, they're up now

[cdifoto]

I think they both look good except for the clear cut out line around the blue flame and the speckle in the bottom right of the glass on the first shot.

[bieber]

Thanks :) The line around the flame is just sloppy PP, it's fixed now, just not re-uploaded

[FlyingPhotog]

Overall nice. You've got a noticeable hotspot on the white one near the bottom right where the bowl rounds under to the stem. The white one looks like the horizon is slightly off needing a little rotation to the right.

I think the black one is awesome. I've got a photo club theme of "Fire and Ice" coming up later this year so I'll definately be setting fire to something myself!

[bieber]

Ooohh, a flame on a block of ice. Gonna have to try that, thank for the idea :) And darn, I was hoping no one would notice that glare :/ I was working on the floor with about five feet of space in my living room, so I'm afraid I ended up with the light too close to the glass, and no gobo around to fix it (black cards with velcro are moving up on my to-buy list)