some help and tips please

So I have this idea in my head:
Beautiful blonde or redhead, holding a glass of white wine in her hands, crispy sparkling golden lipstick.....as golden as the wines colors.....the light falls of very sharply just above her eyes, and the glass needs to look nice clean and crisp.

the test results:
made home made strip lights out of 1.5 meter boxes, baking paper, etc....placed each 50 cm on each side of me to provide nice long highlights on the glasses (partial success, am not happy but think if i move them to 25 cm distance it may get better)
Key light provided by soft box (ok a bit to hot, but i am my own model and fotographer here) which makes for a reasoanble shot, but oh my does the softbox mess up the reflections in the glass

the next shot show what only the strip lights do.

so my question....critique and please help me with comments to come to the results i envision....I have a model lined up and she is ready to come over when i am ready to get this sorted well.

Cheers

Marco

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macobee wrote in post #11258782
the test results:
made home made strip lights out of 1.5 meter boxes, baking paper, etc....placed each 50 cm on each side of me to provide nice long highlights on the glasses (partial success, am not happy but think if i move them to 25 cm distance it may get better)
Key light provided by soft box (ok a bit to hot, but i am my own model and fotographer here) which makes for a reasoanble shot, but oh my does the softbox mess up the reflections in the glass
So essentially what you want is the reflection in the glass without the center soft box, but you do want to use it as your key light?

If she is holding the glass in front of herself, at about 1', you might be able to light the face separately by placing the main light closer in and placing a flag in between it and the glass. A grid might help as well. It's the same concept that's commonly applied to backgrounds, but on a smaller scale.

[quot€]so my question....critique and please help me with comments to come to the results i envision....

You have to put on some more lipstick.

Tobi

thanks Tobi, the more i think about it the more i think It has to be done in 2 separate shots and then combined....

the subject of the shot is the wine............the model is just to hot the image up and complete it.

let me think about this a bit further today