This summer I thought I would have a go at a little bit of experimental photography for my own satisfaction. We had many cherry tomatoes in the greenhouse, so I picked a few placed them on a black tile under a very Heath Robinson box I had constructed and lined with a piece of black velvet  .This was done in the garden using natural light, with a shoot low policy so that you only got the reflection that you required which was of the tomatoes  reflected onto the tile. This was  so you didn't get any extraneous  reflections from else where.

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The main problem was getting the tomatoes to stay in one place long enough to photograph them, without them rolling everywhere and now wanting to stick them or anything else as the idea was to eat them afterwards.! The following images are other fruits and seeds that I tried s well. Home grown pears and some yellow round cucumbers with cherry toms, oranges and lemons for the colour and how they looked. The images aren't perfect but the idea is on the right lines . I need a larger tile and shinier too. When I look at the shots, I notice little marks, which I suppose could have been taken out to some degree with PS. 

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I also bought some extension rings to try some Macro photography of a sunflower. I then put the images into Lightroom and changed the images using the curves, the colours and went into B&W.