A juice glass and its shadow on the wall. Both the glass containing the juice and shadow cast on the wall looks so beautiful, almost like a movie projected on the screen from the movie theater projector.

Photo setup

1. I started with idea of ice floating in a glass of water. Tried a a few shots but it did not turn out to be as expected. I mean, the water looked so plain and without any effect
2. Tried an over the top, close up ( macro ) shot and it turned out to be well ( see the post – Face in the ice )
3. Plain water looked so boring so I thought I would add some color to it. Firstly I added wine, and then tomato sauce. All of them dissolved quickly and did not give me the texture I was looking for
4. As per the suggestion from my friend, I added food color. Bingo ! That was the turning point
5. I got a crimson red, orange and dark red composition, the thing I was exactly looking for
6. I put a hand held torch as the light source and the colors looked good
7. Took several photos with that ( you can find them in the ‘related images’  section )
8. I had to go out and left the setup as it is including the torch which I had forgot to switch off
9. Then accidentally the torch turned over and when I came back, I saw this beautiful image on the wall of the glass and juice and it looked beautiful
10. Tried a few angles and finally got the image I was looking for

Details about the image

Post processing

1.  On the left side of the image, a black line was drawn using the paint brush. This ensured that there no unwanted elements in the left that distracted the core image
2. Slight color correction

 Original Image

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