My friend’s mother has started producing an exciting new drink called Libertea. It is a naturally sweet sparkling green tea infused with natural flavours: lemon and ginger, grapefruit and lemon, and rosehip and mint. What makes these exciting for me who is refined sugar-free is that they contain less than 10 calories per bottle because of the use of stevia as the sweetener. I have mentioned stevia before – it comes from a plant in the sunflower family, is very low in calories and has a negligible effect on blood glucose.
I was asked to photograph the bottles for an advertisement in a magazine and I had a lot of fun learning how to photograph bottles. My first efforts were surprisingly horrific – dark and lifeless. So the experimenting started. I had asked my friend to come with the bottles in the early afternoon when I know the light is good in my kitchen/living area so the window could act as one light. But that wasn’t enough light for bottles. Even though it was a brilliant sunny day, I had to get my big lights in on the action and a reflector. That added up to 4 light sources and only then did the bottles start to come alive. These are the resultant photos. For a first effort at shooting glass, I am pretty chuffed with the results.
I love enterprising ventures like this one and would encourage you to look out for these drinks – they are just now getting into stores and meanwhile, check out their website: https://www.libertea.co.nz/
I was not paid to say anything nice about these drinks and was not even asked to put them on my blog but I wanted you to see my photos.
The photos look terrific. How fun to know someone who is involved in the production of something that looks so delicious.
Thanks, Sarah. It’s great to know that people are becoming so much more aware of reducing their refined sugar intake. It really is damaging to the health.
Fantastic photos! The drinks sound wonderful! Can’t wait to try one!
Thanks, Clare. Hopefully they will export them once they have sorted their market here.
Photographing glass can be hard! All of those reflective surfaces. These look great – terrific work. Have you read the book, Light, Science, and Magic? If you haven’t, I recommend it – they have nice coverage of shooting glass and other shinny reflective surface. It’s not a lighting “recipe” book, BTW, but more about the fundamentals, so once you learn those you can apply them to any situation, and not just the ones they illustrate in the book.
I sure found out that it is not the same as shooting a plate of food. Thanks for the recommendation. You photograph glass beautifully.
I think your photos turned out really well. Photographing glass isn’t easy! I would love to try these drinks. It’s hard to imagine a tasty, good for you fizzy drink that has so few calories xx
Thanks, Charlie. It was tricky. I hope these drinks get over to Australia so you can try them.
Beautiful photos Suzanne. I just love how there is always something to learn with photography.
Thanks, Angela. It is a never-ending learning curve.