Some quick lessons from the picture I made of the drink:

• don’t take pictures of a red drink on a cherry wood coloured table
• inside photography of small objects takes a hell of a lot of light
• it looks like the glass is leaning
• use an aperture of probably at least 4 to get the back end of the glass in focus too

I had some issues with setting the white balance right, because of all the red in there. The white in the background isn’t completely white, so I couldn’t use that for white balance.

For extra lighting I used a very powerful light I have in my living room, but that wasn’t enough. I might have to invest in some serious lights. A good picture inside takes a hell of a lot of light.

I didn’t set the whole arrangement up very carefully, so I feel the picture is a bit slanted. I fixed it, but I don’t feel good enough.

I didn’t want to use an ISO higher than 200 to avoid noise, so I had to open up the aperture quite far, making the back part of the glass out of focus. I definitely need more light.