Nigel Slater food photography competition in The Guardian

The Guardian newspaper has a food photography competition

Nigel Slater has been the Observer’s food writer for 20 years and to celebrate, Observer Food Monthly is offering the chance to win a signed copy of his new book – Eat the Little Book of Fast Food.

All you need to do is send us a photograph –just one photo per person please –

Well we all eat and prepare food so get your camera out and make a picture, send it off, how hard can that be? Go here for details

©Keith Barnes

 

The World’s Best Food Photography Competition

After an incredibly successful debut year, the international Pink Lady^® Food Photographer of the Year 2013 is now open for entries!  (Don’t you just hate the way press releases and teenagers use too many exclamation marks, or is it just me?)

This year’s award also introduces four exciting new categories for entrants. The hotly anticipated Food off the Press category for previously published work in books and magazines will open up the competition to a wider range of entries. Similarly, the Food Snapping category is for images of food taken on mobile phones, and is in support of Action Against Hunger.

The third and fourth categories are Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year, for images of wine, producers and all things related to the subject and Food for Celebration, images of festive, celebratory food from across the world.

Full details of this competition to find the best food photography can be found here

1st Place 2012 Jeff Adler

2nd Place 2012 Tim Clinch

3rd Place 2012 Jonathan Gregson

All the winners images are available to buy on the website as is all the information about the 2013 competition

10 Tips to Improve Your Food Photography Styling

these tips by Jules Clancy will no doubt be helpful if you are having a go at food photography which I always think is fun to do not only because you can eat your subjects when you are finished.

“While portrait photographers need to be skilled in the art of getting their subjects to relax in front of the camera to get a great shot, we food photographers have things a little easier. At least our subjects (mostly) can’t talk.”.…more