Category: photography
Vintage look for your pub/beer photos
I found this brilliant tutorial via Lifehacker and had a quick go at turning a boring photo of a pub into a more interesting one.
Expect to see this effect annoyingly often around here for the next few weeks…
And here’re our previous photographic efforts (one and two), if you’re interested in this kind of stuff.
Bailey
More pub livery in London
Two more bits of old pub livery spotted on Mare Street in Hackney at the weekend.
Beer photography — help yourself
We’ve put some of our beer photos online for people to use on their beer blogs, should they find themselves in dire need of a picture for a post.
Here they are in a little slideshow:
http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf
Or you can go to Picasa Web Albums and help yourself!
More fancy beer photography
A couple of months ago, I spent some time off photographing my pint of Summer Lightning. Tragic, I know. But I’ve gone further — I spent today building a special light box specifically for taking risque images of flirtatious, nubile glasses of beer.
Here are some sample photos:
I didn’t do anything to either photograph in GIMP, other than shrink them for the web.
I say “built” but, not being a proper man who’s comfortable with tools and wood, it’s actually an old carboard box modified with a Stanley knife and Sellotape.
I cut holes in the top and one side, which I covered with greaseproof paper. I then put in a large sheet of white card, curved from the top at the back, and Velcro-d in place. I used Velcro so I could put in different coloured card. Here’s a photo of something other than beer, with a red background:
For a light, I used two angle-poise type lamps with daylight bulbs, one shining through the greaseproof paper on the top; the other shining through the greaseproof paper on the open side.
The end results aren’t perfect, but they’re my best beer photos yet.
Bonus tip: use your camera’s macro mode for close up shots, usually indicated by a picture of a flower. The difference can be amazing.