Just some random weird idea I had a while back, finally got the motivation to do it.

Complicated process. First I opened the shutter up on BULB using a cable release and then lightpainted the cherries.

The flashlight used for lightpainting was a small MagLite mini, with a couple layers of back gaffer tape wrapped around the bulb to keep it concealed and torn up kleenix inside to soften and even the light.

After that my brother and I would blow smoke from a hookah (to soften the background a bit) and bubbles (for added effect... I had something else in mind originally) and fired the flash.

Repeated those last couple steps a few times (most of the shots from the take had the flash fired between two and five times).

Tada.

Strobist:
1 MagLite mini flashlight to lightpaint the cherries
1 - Nikon SB28, 1/32 power, 85mm zoom, camera right, barndoors on left and right sides and gelled with a "twilight blue." Fired separate 3 times.