I have tried this type photo in the past but was not that impressed with the outcome of those shots. After reading on another site about doing these type of photographs I wanted to give it another try. The biggest thing I took from this other site was to light the background. According to this photographer by lighting the background you will not get all the ugly reflections that you get when you light glass from the front and the light bouncing off the background will light the glass. So for this photograph I had the glass sitting on some white Plexiglas, white foam core behind and I bounced the flash off the foam core. I like the look the light gives by passing threw the subject, especially the colored water. I think I still need to work on the setup to get it a little bit better, plus there are some other things that I would like to try like placing the glass on black Plexiglas.
