What are the white glare circles visible in many bottle pictures?
The bright white circles visible on many of the bottle pictures – particularly on the shoulders of bottles – are from the reflector flood lights that the author of this website used to illuminate the bottles for image taking purposes. The picture to the right shows these illumination circles on the shoulder of a ca. 1880 cylinder liquor bottle. The author of this website, who took virtually all of the pictures contained here, is not a professional photographer and used readily available equipment in creating a photographic set-up for taking the pictures. Hopefully the pictures serve the function that they were intended for – to illustrate the concepts and information outlined here.
