Glass. It's transparent! It's really reflective! It can be very difficult to photograph pleasingly.
Have a search online and you will find many solutions and methods of dealing with photographing glass.
For me the secret was,is and always will be backlighting.
The back lighting you use can take several forms. One very useful method to achieve a high key look is to use a translucent light colored background and shine a light through this. You then shoot from the opposite side and your light source doubles up as your background. This method should solve a lot of your classic glass lighting problems and should produce some definition around the edge of your subject.
If you want a dark background you can use a similar lighting set up by setting up your light high and above your background lighting back through the glass and toward your camera.
Another vital element in this kind of photography is the size of your light source. It may not always be true but when it comes to lighting size really does matter. For glass you really want to have a large light source, it can be anything, a soft box or window light are both very good bets.
As I say there are lots of very complex and intricate ways of lighting glass and solving the various issues it causes but almost every single one starts putting your light source behind the subject.
If you want to learn more about it you could do a lot worse than read Light Science and Magic by Fil Hunter,Steven Biver and Paul Fuqua. It's not the lightest or easiest of reads but it will tech you to light glass (and just about anything else you could possibly imagine.)
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