Inspired by creative-staged photos in which the subject is posed as a fruit ninja, I asked my stepdad to wield his gardening saw as if he were slicing through an orange dropping from our neighbor’s tree. I stuck chopsticks into cut halves of one such orange and my mom helped me to hold them up as I took photos. I Photoshopped out the chopsticks and also created revealing masks over images where the orange pulp was in greater focus so that both they and my subject were in focus. Next time, I will try pouring water over fruit props to share a greater sense of their juicyness!