So I shot the establishing shot two ways, one was a straight exposure, the other a 3-shot HDR. I prefer the straight shot but I included both for comparison sake.
HDR is a little less pleasing, it was all natural light.
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Straight shot was lit with a 600EX with a 1/4 CTO gel, zoomed in to 200mm, over top of the objects, and consequently bounced off the brick wall behind it to help illuminate the liquids a little bit. Despite the zoom of the flash, it still caught the label a little more than I wanted but its still better than HDR.
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A closeup of the construction
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About halfway, flash bounced camera left off the brick wall.
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