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In this section you will find all Masterclasses - practical examples of building a scene. Each masterclass is full of insights about lighting, editing or composition.
Topics of masterclasses are based on our members' requests, and you can share your idea for new masterclasses via this link.
Silvia is a professional food and product photographer specializing in commercial, minimalist, and high-end visual storytelling. With a background in graphic design, she brings a precise, strategic eye to every shoot — from color theory to composition to visual hierarchy. Co-founder of FOODlight Studio and mentor within the FOODlight Community, she helps food and product brands create premium imagery that doesn’t just show a product — it communicates its value.
Susi explains how she worked on a professional food styling photoshoot for a tea and coffee brand. She covers planning, sourcing props and ingredients, and handling challenges like tight deadlines. Overall, she shows how a real project is organized and executed.
Learn, how to retouch chocolate!
During this class, we focus on creating a complete storyboard for a video project. We’ll work step by step on developing the concept, organizing the flow of the story, and building a clear shot list that guides the filming process.
During this class, we create a commercial video of a spritz aperol. This time, we mainly focus on creating graphics and effects to the video, which can be done through Photoshop or Canva
During this class, we create a commercial video of chocolate cream: we create a video composite, work with zoom in & out effects in Premiere Pro
During this class, we create a commercial video of wine bottles, focusing on reflections. You will also learn how to make a composite of a video in Premiere Pro.
During this class, we create a commercial video of a soda can drink – watch me from mood board until editing the final video
During this class, we create a complete video of hummus and veggies
During this class, we create a complete video of hot chocolate
During the call, we build a mood board together for a creative photoshoot
During the call, we build a mood board together for a creative photoshoot
In this masterclass, you will learn how to edit and retouch the product image. We focus on retouch and color correction of the product, pasta and backdrops.
In this masterclass, you will learn how to create a product image of a pasta with sauce (the product). We will create a minimalistic scene with bold colors.
In this masterclass, you will learn, how to create the perfect product images for your portfolio.
In this masterclass, you will learn how to create videos for your blog or clients. We cover all technicalities you need to understand & speak about equipment for filming.
In this masterclass, you will learn how to create videos for your blog or clients. We cover all technicalities you need to understand & speak about equipment for filming.
Learn how to manage reflections, while creating dark & moody image with natural light
Composition Techniques for creating natural-looking & eye-pleasing images
This masterclass will show you an exercise to help you improve your composition skills
In this masterclass, you will learn, how to create bright and airy photo, how to create a bokeh effect and how to create a composite
In this masterclass, you will learn, how I created this table scene. This masterclass happened live during our MeetUp in 2022 in Italy.
In this masterclass, you will learn how to create a simple product shot, advanced tools for composite, and create a colorful background in Photoshop
In this Masterclass, you will learn how to create dark & moody, rustic images. We will shoot with 100mm lens, use natural light, and apply Dynamic Symmetry, Rule of odds, Leading lines, and curves.
In this masterclass, you will practice 6 different compositions: rule of thids, golden triangle, golden spiral, golden ratio, dynamic symmetry and diagonal method.
In this masterclass, you will learn how to create your scene using Dynamic Symmetry composition technique.
In this masterclass, you will learn how to use and manipulate natural light in winter
In this masterclass, we dive into the cocktail retouching – you can follow the entire retouching of this image with me.
In this masterclass, you will learn how to manage photography projects for your clients
In this masterclass, you will learn how to work with colors and create monochromatic, and analogous color combination.
Welcome to this Gathering Composite Masterclass.Today, we are styling a large scene and creating a few images, that we combine together in photoshop to create one final image. Below, you see 3 videos – the first one is all about styling and composing the scene, the second video is about editing in Capture One, and the
Welcome in today’s masterclass, where we are creating rustic scene and styling beans soup. In this masterclass we are focusing on how to style and make the beans soup look delicious.*Subtitles (generated automatically via AI) in English, Italian, German, Portuguese are now availableSummary of the video: 0:00 – Introduction0:52 – talking about props3:08 – lighting &
Some of you have asked me to share some tricks with props, therefore I dedicated this masterclass to some of the props and styling tricks you might find very useful. *Subtitles (generated automatically via AI) in English, Italian, German, Portuguese are now availableKey take-away from the video:1. Filling bowls with bowls – You can place smaller bowls
In this masterclass we speak about editing and color corrections.I show you how I edit 2 images, one with soft back light, and the other image is shot with the hard light. We focus on color corrections in both images. Below the video you can download the RAW files so you can edit these images
Welcome in today’s masterclass of how to compose and style the Mojito drink.In this masterclass, we are styling the mojito drink, with limes and mint. I will focus on minimalistic styling and we will play more with lighting today. You will see the image with soft backlight, hard back light, soft & hard side light.
Welcome in today’s masterclass of how to compose and style the Cheese Platter. In this masterclass, we are playing with textures, shapes and a lot of other compositional techniques that we are combining together.Our main hero here is the cheese platter, but it’s also important that you define who is the main hero on the
Welcome in today’s masterclass – Chocolate Bundt Cake Behind the scenes. *Subtitles (generated automatically via AI) in English, Italian, German, Portuguese are now availableSummary of the video (in minutes):Introduction01:59 – Talking about gear – C-stand, tripod, diffuser and light7:40 – Talking about Lighting – creating a bright image11:00 – Talking about backdrops for this image12:44 –
*Subtitles (generated automatically via AI) in English, Italian, German, Portuguese are now availableSummary of the video (in minutes):0 – 10 introduction, talking about props, etc… 12 – 21 creating the scene, following C curve 21:55 Adding texture (with the flour)25:00 The first try of the movement26:00 The second try of the movement27:35 The third try of the
Welcome in our first masterclass! You find the summary notes below the video*Subtitles (generated automatically via AI) in English, Italian, German, Portuguese are now availableA summary notes for the masterclass:Timing: (minutes)0-10 Introduction of the props, lighting10-12 Adding interest by including props of different heights12 – 14 Layering14 – 18 The rule of thirds18 – 19
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