Almost a year ago, I bought a case of Sriracha sauce because, really, why wouldn’t you? I’ve since become more enamored of Huy Fong’s sambal oelek‘s funkier vibe, which is why I still haven’t finished the case yet, but I still have a special place in my heart for rooster sauce.

I knew I wanted to capture the bottles en masse because, really, why wouldn’t you? But I kept putting it off and putting it off until finally I was close to the end of the Sriracha I was working on prior to the case and got inspiration late at night. Since it was late, I didn’t want to set up my lights and annoy my neighbors bumping around, so I just used the little light above my stove. I might have had some ambient light from the moon or something, but the vast majority of the light came from the stove light. Oh and I took this before I upgraded to a 5D Mark III, so I shot this on a T3i with a 28mm prime, so goes to show, you can get some pretty decent images without lots of big fancy super expensive gear.

And if you’re curious about the settings, it’s shot at f/1.8, ISO 1600, 1/100 sec.