I guess this is the logical follow-on from the last post. They were part of a series, which is probably the only reason I did this one in B&W, but I actually ended up liking the effect. Keeping the red wine red is just too obvious to be interesting I suppose.
This one was taken with with some borrowed extension tubes on my 400D.
As usual, I used the GIMP to convert to B&W, followed by a light seasoning of Gaussian noise.
One of the common tricks to getting realistic noise is to lay it on a bit thicker in the shadow areas. Something that I also find helpful is to use multiple layers of noise, with different scaling factors applied.
Capturing drips on film is much more challenging than digital. That’s why I cheated and used dripping soap instead of water.