Stock Shot Project

The idea for this image came to me on my recent trip where all beer was served with a lime.  I tried to grab an available light shot at the time but realized that I would have better results if I saved the shot idea to do in my studio when I returned.  In the studio I have better control over the styling of the bubbles, the lime,  and dripping water on the bottle.  I used my favorite close-up lens combo, the 135mm defocus Nikkor with a short extension-tube, so I could shoot very wide open at f/2.2 to achieve the exaggerated bokeh blurs in the out-of-focus background.