Trying to reproduce this shot was fun! I quickly discovered that my Dynalite strobes are too powerful even turned down to quarter power, and that owning flags/gobos would be a good thing.
I used my black background again and tried to shoot a full-power strobe through it to make it grey, but I couldn't get it as even as the original shot. In retrospect, maybe I could have used a white background and then just not lit it? So, rather than try shooting through the black paper, I fired the strobe against the wall in the opposite direction to get some sweet edge lighting similar to a wine bottle shoot I did last year. There's no edge lighting in the original shot but I really like it in mine :)
