Du Bon, Dubonnet
I’m playing with my flashlights again. I always liked the way the light refracted through glass bottles, bending it this way and that, softening it and refracting it into interesting shapes.
I had these 2-bottles that I’d picked up in France and thought I’d see what would happen when I lit them up with my Eddie Bauer single LED flashlight.
In working with these images, they reminded me of some of the old French ads for Dubonnet, Clicquot, or maybe Pernod that would appear in the magazines.
I can just see the scrawl across the top of the ad…”Buvez Pernod”, or “C’est Bon, c’est Dubonnet!”
I took these with my Nikon D200, Sigma 20mm 1.8 ex DG DF RF lens, mounted on a Kaiser copy stand and illuminated with my Eddie Bauer LED flashlight from Target.
Responses and Conversations
Aaahhhh… Pernod ads. I think the entire reason I started drinking Pernod out of college was because of the old ads. And then we moved on the absynthe. Make sure to ask SyncSpeed about a New Years a few years ago and how a gin and absynthe concoction made New Years Day a little… rough.
It’s also interesting seeing your posts in relationship to Going Pro. He’s got a post about inexpensive lighting, but in his case it’s a $250 light. For you it’s… $2?
Comment by Christopher Frazier on April 27th, 2006 at 8:04 am
Ha, I’ll have to ask Sync about when the “Green Monster” bit him! (Maybe that’s where he got the picture of his green leg?) Actually my lighting isn’t as cheap as that ($2), in reality it set me back $4.99 plus tax.
Comment by JimmyD on April 27th, 2006 at 8:46 am
I’m a fan of cheap lighting. Not a fan of absynthe.
Comment by John Koontz on April 27th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
I’m sure if you click on the links in the ads above, you can get some good lighting deals. You’d better stick to vermouth i guess.
Comment by JimmyD on April 27th, 2006 at 2:03 pm