Nothing cuts through a grey winter evening like a cocktail suitable of Toucan Sam . Here are a bread maker ’s twelve drinks , photograph and mixedby you .
WINNER : Blue Monday
This is a Blue Monday :
2 oz vodka¼ oz triple sec¼ oz blue curacoa
Place all of the ingredients together with ice into a cocktail shaker , shake and serve in a martini glass with a Citrus limon tress . The pic was taken with a Canon 7D and EFS 17 - 85 mm @ 30 millimeter . Exposure was 1/250 at f/22 , ISO 100 . Lighting was a individual Alien Bees strobe at around 80 % power located above the glass facing into the background . I used Lightroom for some color tweaks & minimal touch up . The field glass was place on a piece of plexi to create the expression , on top of a mainsheet of posterboard to give the white colour . The background was another sheet of white posterboard , flanked by two blackened sheet to bring out the edge on the shabu . Typically when shooting glass on a white background you put the light below the table buck up into the background signal to minimize isolated luminousness , but I was too worried about splashing it with vodka ! I flipped the setup around , and as a fillip was able-bodied to produce the grey gradient which emphasizes the horizon .
– Adam Reeve
Blueberry Gin Blaster
Blueberry Gin Blaster :
2 oz Gin
1/2 oz lemon succus
2 oz simple syrup
1 oz . St. Germaine
2 oz Blueberry puree ( 1/2 cupful frozen blueberries 4 tbspoons of water )
1/3 cup of nightspot sodium carbonate
– Mix first 4 ingredients , stir lightly
– add night club washing soda and icing
– slowly drizzle blueberry bush puree
Camera & Lens :
Canon EOS REBEL T3i
Canon EF 50 mm f/1.8 II Lens
ISO 125 , 50 mm , f/1.8 , 1/60
This blueberry inspired cocktail was a creation of mine i made for my female parent while she was still alive . She was a huge Gin toper and loved blueberries and made my own style of drink that incorporate all her preferred ingredients . It looks beautiful and tastes great as a summer cocktail .
– Carolyn Hook / Kyle Hook
Fernet Flip
I made a Fernet Flip using that I saw at a local restaurant in Denver . I wiretap the mixologist for the formula as well as some bakshish on getting the right foam for a flip . He happily accommodate me and told me the recipe which I later compose down.1.5 oz Fernet Branca1.5 oz Sweet Vermouth ( I used Dolin)0.5 oz Rich simple sirup ( 2:1)1 Whole EggCombine in mover and shaker and ironic milkshake ( no frappe ) . Add only a few magnanimous cubes ( water dilution hamper foam ) and shake . Strain into chilled coupe glass . How I shot it was with a VSD160 with softbox camera right . I try on to keep the aperture widely so that I could slur the background . The camera / electron lens frame-up was a Canon EOS 5D Mark II with a Canon EF 100 mm f/2.8L IS macro . The flash was trigger with pocket wizards . Specific options wereISO 100 , 100 mm focal length , f/4.0 , 1/60 2d shutter speed , IS turn on .
– Chase Hoffman
Bols Deep
Making and drinking tonight : Bols deep . Photo was involve with iPhone 5S. Recipe is 2 oz Bols Genever Gin , 1 oz unsubdivided sirup , several dash of angostura bitterness stir and served over a tumid ice cube . I need to give credit to Booker and Dax for the name and canonic recipe for the drink . I loved it there and continue to make it at habitation .
– Daneil Johnson
Martini
formula : batch of Belvedere Vodka , a dab of olive seawater , a susurration of vermouth , shake until your fingers are benumbed , and garnish with three olives . pic : fritter with a T3i and Sigma genus Lens on my dining room tabular array . The photo shoot was direct quickly as martinis should never be exhaust warm .
– Darrin Robertson
Old Fashioned
The contest inspired us to crack open up the hard liquor and make up one of my darling : the Old Fashioned:3 oz Bourbon2 - 3 bolt angostura bitters1 sugar cubeOrange twist and Maraschino cherry to garnishI got up closely with my trustworthy f/2.8 30 mm flower on a Sony SLT - A57 . The pic was accept at 1/60th f/2.8 ISO 1600 at 30 mm . There ’s something about the vibrancy of the orange crook and the maraschino cerise plant against the ample color of the Bourbon that made this picture really compelling for me . I also sleep together exploring shallow deepness of arena , which is all to leisurely with a macro lens as f/2.8 . The good part was finishing my cocktail at the end – what a unadulterated direction to expend an evening in this cold !
– Grant Beyleveld
POV
Drink : muddied Girl Scout One part Irish Cream LiquorOne part Creme de Menthe LiqueurOne part Creme de Cacao Liqueur
snap with a GoPro3 + on burst fervidness mode .
This is one of my favourite stab . So I wanted to used this as the beverage of choice . I wanted to put a different view on what a depiction of a cocktail is . So I tried to get it from inside the glass . What its like as the cocktail is being made .
– Jason Gebhardt
The Parrot
The Parrot1 oz Malibu Pineapple Rum1/2 oz strawberry puree mix3 oz orange juice
shake with icestrain into glassgarnish with kiwi fruit slice
canyon T3EF 50 mm f/1.8 IIf/3.5ISO 100Exposure Time : 10 sec .
– Jason Dennett
NC-21 Coffee
full-grown coffee bean
1 cup of chilled coffee bean with 2 tbspoons of sugar
Take 3 oz of coffee mixture
1 oz amaretto
1 oz whisky
emollient and foam
-Mix all element , top of with cream and froth
ISO 100 , 50 mm , f/1.8 , 1/60
Sometimes you need a pick me up , and what better way than caffein , sugar and booze . I was going for the direct contrast of a crude background and scene with an overly fancy glass .
– Joelle Hook
Bourbon dynasty
For this weeks photo challenge , the subject of choice is Bulleit Bourbon Frontier Whiskey . No mixer , no garnishes , just whisky . Do n’t be a bitch . For the shot , I used my Nikon D40 on the sports setting . I used a shining desk lamp for the lighting . I want to get an natural process dead reckoning of a pour and think this did the line of work quite nicely .
– Jon Alvarez
Gin with Orange Twist
Gin with orange twist
3 oz snare
2 oz unsubdivided syrup
Persian cucumber vine slice
1/4 tea leaf spoon of grated ginger
squeeze of stinker
– muddle cucumber ginger and stinker squeeze
– add bare syrup and gin rummy
– shake
– add ice and top off with ball club soda
I seek to represent this photo with some rude windowpane spark . I desire to make a drink that was inspired by summertime and practice my favorite ingredients .
– Kyle Hook
Umbrella on Ice
Puxatawney Phil visit for 6 more weeks of winter called for something a bit stronger . This is simply some Crown XO over ice . I used a home - grown icicle , drilled a hole in it for the umbrella . Shot particulars . Sony A65v 17 - 50 mm lens @ 17 mm . f5.6 1/60 sec exposure with 2 flashes . One face butt of blanched - box and one bounce off reflective card in front of shabu to the left of the camera back into the glass .
– Marvin Francois
Sangria
We made Sangria for the Super Bowl . We generally make a ewer the day before with 8 parts red wine , 1 part peach schnapps , 1 part triple sec , the juice of half a gamboge , half a lime , and half an orange tree . Then slice of lemon , calcium oxide , orangish , and strawberry mark are added to the pitcher to soak overnight in the icebox . The photo was taken under ambient light using a Canon 6D with 50 mm lens of the eye in manual style 1/80 second exposure , F1.4 , ISO 2500 . The Sangria was deplete during the first quarter of the Super Bowl . As Badger fans , we were felicitous to urge on on our former quarterback , Russell Wilson , as he led Seattle to triumph .
– Paul Marker
Triple Dessert
Triple Dessert2 parts raging cocoa1 part baileys1 part creamMarshmallow garnish
– Layer each ingredient , drink slowlyCamera & Lens : Canon EOS REBEL T3iCanon EF 50 mm f/1.8 II LensISO 100 , 50 mm , f/5.6 , 1/250
Being a chocolate lover this was a random mixture that i made that ended up try out pleasant-tasting . During winter day in NJ there s nothing beneficial than hot chocolate ! so why not add some pot liquor ? what a cracking treat on a cold night
– Robert Hook ( Bobby )
Dreams of Summer
2 oz gin
2 oz mango nectar
muddled lemon yellow cut
lavender flowers
herbs ( or substitute cucumbers )
– kettle of fish gamboge with hyphen of mango nectar
– add gin , mango nectar , invoke thoroughly
– make full with ice
– garnish with lavender and cucumber
ISO 800 , 50 mm , f/8 , 1/30
My wife have a go at it mango tree and I guess the lavender added a clean addition to the cocktail . The scope was mean to allow the drink to pop and it ’s a respite on a rare sunfilled winter ’s afternoon on the east coast
– Stephen Daniele
Speyside Scotch
This photo is of an 18yr Speyside Scotch ( Kirkland Signature make ) , neat . It was shoot down with a Canon G9 , in raw , lit with a dingy LED flashlight . I like the redirection of the light , from the shape of the field glass . I warm it up a bit in ACR prior to possible action , due to the blue light from the LED . Other than a harvest in Photoshop , and a small amount of post - processing in ACR , this is how it was shot . The looking glass is from Nambe .
– Steve Everist
Absinthe
The recipe for this shot was Absinthe , a Sugar Cube and Fire . Shot at ISO 400 , .4 Secs , f3.2 , 155 mm . I had never tried Absinthe before , but always desire to . The movies seem to glamorize it a number , drop the pee over the sugar square block or setting it ablaze . I was stupid enough to utilize a non - mollify shabu for this shot so in brief after this photo was taken the glass break up , leak flaming green goo onto the fatal paper ground . I was able to muff out the flame like a big birthday cd , but now i ’m out a fancy martini deoxyephedrine .
– Timothy Schubert
Axe Bourbon
Inspired by Ron Swanson , I want to get a male picture of my favorite cocktail : bourbon and a undivided ice third power . Since we just had a decent nose candy here in Georgia , I recollect the brown booze would be the perfect contrast . Throw in an ax and a pine cone and there you have it!Equipment Used : Nikon D7000Nikon 85 mm 1.8GAxPine coneWeller ’s Wheat BourbonSettings : Shutter:1/250f/4.5ISO 100Off photographic camera flashRecipe : Pour bourbon into glass , sum one ice cube , and enjoy .
– Tyler Upton
Wonderful photos and drinks all around . For a more immersive variant of the photography , mix your own , or just head overto flickr .
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