and
had been applied straight. One of the interesting
memories about selecting the bottle was when I sat in the
floor of the store looking at about a dozen bottles.I had
placed them around me in an arc so I could select the
best looking one. Every few minutes, an employee of the
liquor store would look down the aisles at me. Surely the
person was wondering what I was doing, sitting there
staring at a dozen bottles of green liquer. I have always
speculated that they thought I was a recovering alcoholic
who was testing his self discipline.
To create
light coming through the bottle and the glass, I cut out
pieces of thin cardboard. I used spray glue and attached
some of the reflective plastic that you install onto your
cars windows to keep the heat out. It looks just like a
mirror. Once the boards had been trimmed to be just a bit
smaller than the glass and bottle, they were propped
behind the glass items and angled to reflect the light of
the main light through the liquid. The green glow on the
background was a gelled strobe head about 6 inches away
from black seamless.
Limes are
not always as intense green as one would anticipate. We
colored the slice with green and yellow food coloring to
intensify the color. By the way, that green melon liqueur
is really tasty.
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