Taking the photography of Mann, Atget, Schmidt and others of your own choosing as your starting point for this exercise. Shoot a number of photographs exploring the quality of natural light. The exercise should be done in manual mode and the important thing is to observe the light, not just photograph it. Describe the quality of light in your own words of your own photographs taken for his exercise.
The research on Mann, Atget and Schmidt can be seen here.
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