Yeah!! People were curious.  Juliboc had it right. :)
Sorry I didn't take more pictures, so it's not an official tutorial. So you'll just have to imagine the different parts. :)
I saw shots like this on 1x (much better, though), and it drove me up the wall wondering how to do it!
With this one I used a roll of light colored wallpaper for my background -- I didn't have anything with which to hold it up, so I just draped it over two dictionaries.
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I had the same exact honey jar and the bent, de-petalled flower behind the backdrop. A flashed was placed a ways behind that. So the shadow is created by the flash. By the way, the farther away the flash, the better the shadow.
I started with the camera straight in front of the bottle, and the shadow appeared to the left (because that's where I had it placed. :) But when I moved the camera around to the side, to try a different perspective, I was really lucky, and since the paper draped down and onto the table, the shadow from the bottle behind the backdrop sloped and matched up with the bottle in front!
The biggest issue is that when everything is lit from behind, the bottle is great because it's glass, but the flower is silhouetted. So I just did a long exposure, one flash of the flash, and then painted the flower with a flashlight for a couple of seconds. You have to keep moving the flashlight so you don't get a real shadow on the background.
5 second exposure
f9.0
ISO 100
Message edited by author 2012-09-21 19:55:38.
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