How would you light this?

[The Matt]

Help me with my lighting set up please.



I have one flashgun that I can't trigger off camera at the moment. for this I swivelled it right, and used a piece of black card to keep direct light off the bottle and keep the background dark. There's a reflector just off to the right. I think the left is too dark but light from any reflector I put off the left ended up looking suspiciously like a hand holding a sheet of white paper, or else it was hidden behind my black card and didn't do anything. Am I missing any tricks?

 

[Garry Edwards]

I think you've done a pretty good job here with your very limited equipment.
But really, this type of shot needs a large strip softbox plus a fill light, and I think it would be very difficult to do better than you've already done without it.