Tequila in a beautiful bottle

[flashback]

I think you should be tasting as well as photographing. From my e̶x̶p̶e̶r̶i̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ understanding, tequila is as (or maybe almost as) nuanced as wine. Expand your (taste) palate.

[Mike Buckley]

Expand your (taste) palate.

There are only a few things that I have given up on. Beer is one of them. Anything that is 40% alcohol is another of them and that's the alcohol level of this tequila.

[KimC]

Beautiful lighting....

[purplehaze]

Beautiful rendering of a very interesting piece of glass. Just love the colours.

[Andrew1]

Thanks for trying Mike. I thought the light might bring out the inner glass more than it does.

[Mike Buckley]

Thank you to Kim and Janis!

I thought the light might bring out the inner glass more than it does.

That's understandable because it's intuitive until we take into account the physics of light. Positioning a light closer to an opaque object makes the object brighter than positioning the same light farther away. However, this glass is transparent. So, only the edges of the glass are defined; everything in between the edges remain unseen unless we add a reflector or light source to add a reflection to the other parts of the glass. Regardless, whatever parts of the glass are defined by the lighting scheme, they are defined by bright or dark tones. The brightness or darkness of those tones is almost always a function of the exposure being used, rarely the addition of another light source.