I don’t know why but the first thing I searched for was ‘banana’. Predictably, I was met with a sea of yellow. There seems to be something quite ‘novelty’ about a banana, with it’s bright cheerful colour and non-conforming shape.…

For this exercise I wanted to explore the form and texture of a lime with different lighting. I actually ended up lighting all these images with my mobile phone torch and a head torch, holding or propping up the light.…

Taking the photography of Mann, Atget or Schmidt or a photographer of your own choosing as your starting point, shoot a number of photographs exploring the quality of natural light. The exercise should be done in manual mode and the…