quick attempt to recreate this photo in cycles, post in gimp:
Very fine!
paolo
not bad, looks a lot like the original but I’d add in a little more environment lighting from the sides to smooth things out. Also, needs more samples.
funny how photographers (especially with scenes like this) try to achieve perfection with lighting, setup and shot itself… and on the other side how cg artists try to reach imperfection with their renderings and get as near to real life as possible with grain, dof, lens distortions etc.
Few years ago i painted an oil painting. In the picture there was 3 shampoo bottles. Looking the picture i thought something is annoying in that picture. Then i found out that the 3 bottles have exactly the same shape and size. So i learned that in oil painting (and CG image) is better to place objects of various sizes and shapes, for example one >tiny glass< next to a L A R G E B O T T L E. However, in your picture the colors in background and photorealism make it less annoying that glasses have the same shape.