HD Video: Bavarian Yule and The Black Orchid Club
Posted Dec. 17, 2009 by Gabriel Hurley
It so happens that one of my good friends manages the Forbidden Island Tiki Lounge in Alameda, CA.
In a stroke of marketing genius, Suzanne Long is running a 13-week event she calls The Black Orchid Club, wherein every Wednesday she unveils an all-new cocktail of her own creation which is served that night only and never again at Forbidden Island. For showing up and ordering the drink, you get a limited-edition collector's card, and if you have enough of the cards at the end of the 13 weeks, there are prizes to be won.
Sounds fun, right?
Well Paul and I went over and filmed her making the week 6 cocktail—The Bavarian Yule—and it turned out better than just about anything else you can find on YouTube when searching for "cocktail". Check it out:
For Full HD you'll want to watch it on YouTube directly. It's embedded at a lower resolution here.
The video was shot on Paul's Canon 5DmkII camera with the 50mm f1.8 lens, and was lit with two 600 watt halogen lights diffused through reflectors.
This was only about an hour's effort, and we're quite pleased with the image quality. We may even shoot all 13 drinks to be released as a series.
We'd love to shoot more things of this sort, so if you have ideas, please let me know!
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