Wine glass cliche' shot. Backlit from below background. Glasses sitting on a piece of clear glass with a white foamboard underneath. Dark blue foamboard background about 18 inches behind glasses. Both sides and top enclosed with black foamboard. Wish I could have figured out how to eliminate the light glow right above the liquid level. Maybe a different camera angle would have done it, but ran out of time to experiment. Hope the voters don't focus on that flaw :)
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Perfect exposure, and I love the colors.
Since you have the upright glass partialy filled, you should adjust your composition a bit. If you were to pull both glasses toward the camera the blue table would make it look like the upside down glass was filled to the same amount.
It's a really clever shot that is really, really well lit. But to get top marks it would need to give me a sense of what and where that lighting was in order to fulfill the challenge.
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