At the higher end and for abou $500 US, Feisol has just released their carbon fiber gimbal the UA-180. I have no experience with this item, but judging from its design, it seems to be not only rock-solid and very adjustable, but also uses mounting plates that can make up for under-designed lens collars. Two of their longer plates also attach to the camera, forming a very solid platform that in turn appears to attach with an Arca/Swiss styled quick-release plate to the head. It seems quite secure and stable, but without actually having worked with one I cannot attest to smoothness of operation or real-world results. I think they may be unique as far as offering combined camera/lens mounting plates. With heavier lenses in particular, I am more comfortable with a double U system as opposed to the the more elegant Wimberley cantilevered design - but that’s a personal preference.

On top of it I added a transparent layer on which I used a gradient fill (the standard soft stripes pattern). Blending mode “screen”, opacity around 80% - to add just some variety to the “glass”.

Obviously both layers need to be masked.

I’m not saying it’s perfect (it’s kind of hard to envision how it looks without the door in place) but it definetely puts “something” in front of the bottles.

Although I think that the open door works just fine and it probably looks more “inviting” than an open door anyway.

The textbooks recommend using pola filters on the light and a 90deg rotated pola filter on the camera to filter out the reflections. But they don’t mention how to get rid of the reflectoin of yourself. Behind a white sheet with a small hole in it with the lens poking through I would guess, and then positionin the camera in such a spot that the lens reflects on top of something dark.