FOOD PHOTO TOURNAMENT

Summer Magazine 2025

Welcome to our Food Photo Tournament in March 2025 - creating our 8th issue of the  magazine of the Members' Club!

Your assignment

What is your task

Your task (as a team or individual contributor) will be to create magazine pages - including content creation (including photography and text), creating the layout & design of your pages. After creating your pages, we will put it all together and publish the online magazine to the public.

Registration closes this weekend

What the assignment will include

Watch the video to learn about the requirements for the magazine pages and how you can collaborate in a team to complete your assignment. *correction: individuals create from 2 to 3 pages.

Then, each team and individual contributor can follow these steps

Step 1 - planning & content creation

In this phase, you receive a topic of your assignment - so you can plan and discuss with your team the topic and  content you want to create. Divide the roles within your team, create a mood board and shot list and remember following the requirements of the project.


step 2 - design & layout

Once the content if finalised and ready, you can access your templates in canva and design the content there directly. In Canva, you can create any kind of layout you want. You are free to design your pages the way you prefer.


Please, use the document below when creating your pages. 

step 3 - photography

After your layout in Canva is drafted and agreed upon, you can use it for creating images for your pages. You can download the layout as a PNG with the transparent background and use this layout while tethering. 

If you have never tethered, please, access this course inside our Members' Club.

step 4 - put it all together

At this stage, it's time to put it all together and finalize your pages. You can  upload them to Canva and add them to your template. Once it's ready, please give me the permission to access and edit your template, so I can copy all images & text into our final magazine after.


If you have any additional content for the final magazine (such as extra images), please, upload them to the canva document you used to design your pages.

step 5 - live presentation

As a team, or individual contributors, you will present your project and tell us more about what you created. Each team & individual contributor will have about 10 minutes to speak about your magazine pages. 


See the schedule of the live events below. If you can't attend live, the replay of the call will be saved in the Club after. I would ask at least 1 member of each team be present on the call, to present your pages.

How the task is structured this time:

1. task: photography content *new direction of the magazine

Each team creates a photography content: 1 final photo of the topic (assigned in the forum) and 1 BTS shot (taken by mobile is ok too:)

Your task is to design 1-2 pages, with all these details about the final image: 

  • Camera model & Settings (ISO, f/n, Shutter speed)
  • Lens
  • Light & Settings
  • Props & Backdrop
  • Why did you choose this camera set up? Describe the behind-the-scenes and how you created the image (how far away the camera was from the subject, what kind of props you used and why, and if you used any kind of additional equipment).
  • What kind of light did you use, natural or artificial? Describe how you created the light, and the setup (the direction and distance from your subject, and if you used gobos, softboxs or foam to manipulate the light).
  • How, and why did you style the final image this way? What kind of story you wanted to tell?
  • Did you use any kind of composition technique? How did you place the elements in the final image?
  • How did you edit the final image? Did you make a composite? Describe what kind of editing you did.
  • What was the hardest part for you while creating the final image?

2. task: recipe double page *only for teams, not individuals

You don't need to develop a recipe, feel free to credit any other creator. 
This is one double page - you need to create a horizontal image, that will be spread on 2 individual pages. So, that means, your left half and right half of the horizontal image must be working perfectly individually too. 

01 - a double page of a horizontal image (working perfectly on singolar pages)

As a team, you get to create a recipe, which will be captured in one horizontal image, that will create a double page in the magazine. See the examples below.

02 (requirement for a double recipe page) - left half must include negative space

Your horizontal image must include the negative space in the first half. This space will be used for the text. Please, see some examples here: 

03 (requirement for a double recipe page)  - An image with some creative aspect in the content

The other requirement is to include some creative element in one of your images. It can be made in photoshop, it can be a graphic added during the editing, or anything else that you can think of. You can see a few examples here:

This is the link for your canva templates, where you upload all information for delivering your work & magazine.

Schedule of the Tournament - Live call

The Food Photo Tournament might take about 1,5-2 hours. You can see the schedule of games & activities we will go through. 

1. Presentation of the team assignments

We will go through the presentation of the teams and individuals. I will share them on my screen and the team will have 10 minutes to talk about what they were creating. After the second event, voting will be open for 1 week. The categories will be: Layout, Content, Photography, Overall category. 

DDL FOR DELIVERING FINAL PAGES - 1 DAY BEFORE THE LIVE PRESENTATION

2. Other Games & interviews

After the presentations of teams, we will play a game :) 

3. Susi's feedback on your pages

Susi will also share her insights about your assignments and how she evaluated your work based on the requirements.

4. Winners announced!

After the live call with Susi, we will announce winners of the Tournament. A team & invididual contributor who collects the most points inside the "Averall category "+ points from Susi = will win the first place. Team will be featured on the cover.

Included in our next edition of the magazine

#2 Interview with the winners

We will do an interview with the winners (TEAMS & individual contributor) - featuring your blogs, recipes, photography and services you provide.

#1 Featuring our members - your freebies, products, services

This is a great opportunity to get visibility about your freebies, services, products you offer to the public. This is available to every member of the Club.

#1 Featuring restaurants recommended by members

This is a great opportunity to develop a professional relationship with a location - bar or restaurant you wish to work with. You can contact your dream client, take a few images of the location, write a bit about them, and we will feature them in our magazine. This is available to every member of the Club. 

Have you seen our previous issues?

Winter 2024/2025


Summer 2024

Download our previous magazine to see what we created the last time 😍 


Let me know if you have any questions! Feel free to share them in our forum or we can discuss them during the live calls. 

Do you want feedback on your image?

For short/quick questions or help, please, share your image in the forum. For more complex review, please, submit your image for the Image Critique, and for feedback that would require a discussion, please, send your image for the live composition&editing calls.

Need a technical support?

If you need any help, or you see that something stopped working (happens sometimes :), email me at lucia@foodlight.io

Connect with other members

Visit our forum to connect with other members, exchange a constructive feedback and share your questions about content, courses, resources, etc... 

need more personalised help?

Join us live on any call to talk about your challenges (Access the live calls schedule) or book a 1-1 call with me and we will discuss your challenge directly there. 

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