Glasses

I've recently been reading the book Low Cost High Impact Photography by Steve Johnson on my kindle.  For all of you new photographers out there, it is a steal at 99 cents.  One of the techniques I'm learning from the book is how to take quality still shots with a light-tent effect (without the light tent cost).  Here are a few shots of some glass cups that I took using this setup.  I'll also include some shots of my water bottle as well:

 

 

 

I added some blue tint to this shot, which was a nice touch:

 

Here are the shots of the water bottle.  I like several things about this first one.  The off-center, off-balance feel it gives, the shadow is nice, and the angle of the shot making it appear that it is smaller at the bottom than it actually is:

 

 This one is straight-on: