If You want to be good at something, you must keep doing it over and over; I guess that golden rule applies to everything you need to be good at, particularly photography.

When I started out, I always wanted to be good at food photography , but with the limited resources and tools I had back then, my only option was to try, modify, then try again to become better, and to be honest that was the best thing I did to help my food photography skills..

The idea behind this self assignment popped into my head while watching a food reel for a world renowned professional, it was one of the best inspirational things I saw through my life; So, I decided to bring in few little walnuts, toss them around, crack some into halves and see what happens, lighting was so simple, just one softbox with no fill to the left: