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Zack Burris Beverage Photography

  • Dropping ice cubes suddenly hit the whiskey in a 12 sided polygon cocktail glass and creates a crown of splashing fluid. Photographed on a futurisic pebbly blue reflective surface in a landscape orientation. An example of high speed photography perfectly capturing and {quote}freezing the motion{quote} of the splashing fluid and descending ice cubes.
  • Camera is at 0º and the lighting is frome back and right of frame in this landscape aspect product and beverage image. The single snifter is partially filled with a hint of the bottle on the left side and a cork stopper is placed between all composed on a weathered wood bar top. The soft focus background exhibits a desireable bokeh effect in its rich brown and blue hues.
  • Three shots, the two on the left are already full with an aperitif pouring into the glass on the right side of frame. The background exhibits beautiful bokeh effects in the predominantly orange hue. The glasses are composed on a slightly reflective white with black and grey veined marble surface. The image is cropped horizontally and the camera is dead-on to the subject.
  • Pouring Vodka Splash is an example of high speed photography capturing the excitement of a hard pour into a cocktail glass creating splashes. The glass is sitting on a dark slate surface with a black background. This image is in portrait orientation. The camera is dead on and the soft and dramatic light source is from the right. The image is monochromatic with strong highlights in the glass, splash and pouring fluid.
  • A bottle of VSOP Courvoisier dominates the horizontal frame with a partially filled snifter. The camera angle is at 45º and the subjests sit tightly on a rough hewn stone bar top. The feeling is moody and the soft light originates on the left side highlighting the glasss and label. A reddish glow also illuminates the lower label from light passing through the fluid.
  • A single descending cherry drops into this delicious cauldron of vaporous liquid nitrogen and freezing vodka with Maraschino cherry garnish, creating splashes above the glass rim and in the liquid nitrogen vapor. This cocktail is served in an ice packed frozen lowball glass. The low camera angle creates additional drama to the soft, back and side lighting. The black background has a highly reflective quality which the glass reflects perfectly on.
  • The Royal Oporto bottle is centered with two overlapping aperitif glasses on its' left side. The bar surface is a very rich and dark reflective wood with a padded black bolster. The soft focus background is of a golden textured variety which exhibits a desireable bokeh effect. The camera angle is straight in and the image is presented in a vertical aspect.
  • Whiskey pouring from a bottle into a round lowball glass on a mahogany wood surface which fades to black with liquid splashing about. This example of high speed photography exhibits incredible detail while two ice cubes melt on the surface. This picture is in landscape orientation with a low angle of view and strong light source from the right.
  • Beer comes flying out of the 22 ounce Portland glass and is shaped like a tongue. The glass is sweaty with condensation and the camera angle is dean on. The crop is in a landscape orientation and the background is white.
  • Tightly cropped with the camera angle at 0º to the subject the image is cropped in an 11'x17' orientation. This close-up product photograph of Canadian Club bottle and lowball glass with whiskey and ice is minimally lit from camera left. With a color pallet of browns and blacks, the out of focus background exhibits a slight bokeh effect.
  • The camera aspect is at 60º in this brooding product photograph of a Dom B & B bottle with a lowball glass half filled with ice and Irish whiskey. The bottle stopper is mysteriously in the shadows left of the centered bottle with the ice and whiskey glass on the right. A soft focus tankard rests subtly in the upper right corner and the subjects are comfortably composed on a rustic wood surface.
  • The camera is dead on (zeroed out) to this portrait aspect composition. Vaporization from the liquid nitrogen creates dancing white plumes as the lime wedge drops into this drink splashing the beautifully saturated red fluid made with lime juice, Cointreau, vodka and cranberry juice. Served in a traditional frozen martini glass sitting on an all white reflective bar top with gorgeous light from the right. A fine white linen napkin cradles the back of the glass stem.
  • The camera angle is from directly above and the light is from below in this fast flash duration and close-up photograph of ice and soda in cyan and blue hues against black. Bubbles of efforvesence stream to the fluid surface almost engulfing while surrounding the smallish clear ice cubes. Presented at 11{quote}x17{quote} plus bleed.
  • Camera is at 0º and the lighting is frome back and left of frame in this landscape aspect product image. Two snifters partially filled dominate two thirds of the image with the semi-filled decanter in the right quadrant. All subjects are composed on a white and gray veined marble bar top.
  • Shot with the camera angle at 0º to the bottle and cropped in a horizontal aspect. The cork bottle stopper is slightly obsured by a lowball glass half filled with ice and Scotch whiskey. The composition is on a pebbly and slightly reflective gold surface and in front of the textural gold back wall. The light is soft and from two directions, the main light is softly from the left side and a top light creates an interesting glow to the gold surface highlighting the whiskey and and adding depth to the subject's reflections in this still life.
  • With the dusty old Oloroso cream sherry bottle on the left and two cut glass aperitif glasses centered and right composing this soft focus close up photograph, our camera angle is dead-on and the image is dominated by beautiful tan and sienna hues with the background out of focus displaying a desireable bokeh effect. Vertically presented and directly but softly lit from left of frame.
  • This horizontally cropped digital image is shot from directly above the three red sugared rim Cosmpolitan martini cocktails. Lime slices float just below the drinks surface. Lights and darks dance about the heavily etched cut glass as the saturated colors of the flavor infused sugared rim and red magenta fluid stand out against the fine white linen table cloth.
  • Product image exhibiting forced perspective dominates the visual appeal of the still life. The lighting is focused on the label of the bottle with an internal glow from the interior fluid. A cork rests to the right of the maple infused rye whiskey bottle and has a rim light effect. The subject is in sharp focus top to bottom and all sit on a rough hewn wood plane. The image is cropped in a landscape format.
  • The camera placement is dead-on to the naturally sweating martini glass and cocktail which also has three pimento stuffed olives on the skewer. Served on a reflective black bar top the multiple, saturated out of focus colors exhibit a desireable bokeh effect and are reflected in the surface. The extremely out of focus second glass dominates the center and right of frame. The subjects are tilted towards 30º in this horizontally cropped photograph.
  • Composed of a gold and green labeled liquor bottle with an ice and whiskey half filled heavy bottomed lowball glass the subjects rest comfortably on a textured silver plane which gradually gradates to white. The camera is positioned dead-on to the label, the subject is lit from front left as the fluid glows with beautufull brown hues in the glass and bottle. Presented here in an eight and one half by eleven portrait orientation.
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