Sakura Craze

i'm a member of a photography group in facebook called "f-stop" which regularly having a weekly friendly competition in a specific theme of the week.. well, i've been posting my entry for time to time, and u know what i'd never win.. hehehe! nway, the judging goes to whoever get the most votes from the members win... last week they held the "taste" theme competition and thought of strawberry splash which i see very frequently in the net... but where the hell i can get a strawberry in this season...hehehe so i started to dig my employers fridge to look for some tasty subject. then i found these cherries freshly bought by my employer's daughter... ( hope they'll never read this.)  nway, i can't see this cherry much applicable to what i wanted to shoot, not like the strawberry which has the texture and details with it, cherry is  simply plane and boring... so i come up with the idea of a high key, product photo approach... so i started to hang all my cherries harvested from the fridge with white piece of sawing thread in two rows to provide some dept of field, with my room's wall painted white as a background... i shoot it with my Nika ( D90), 18-200@200mm, f5.6, 1/2ss, ISO100 attached in my tripod.. using 2 strobes, 1 sb600 @ 1/32 fp 45 degrees left from the subject towards the background to burst out the white color removing all shadows and 1 sb900 45 degrees right front, slightly above the subject to give some highlights... and there you go, my first photo intended for the theme!  ( the result... i didn't make it to the top neither... hahahaha )

PP: adjust color intensity, levels and sharpness, edit some part which the thread is visible, tilted 3 of the cherries to impose movement..