Gavin Hoey
Gavin Hoey is a freelance photographer, writer and trainer of all things photographic. His work is regularly featured in photography magazines, websites and videos.
Gavin has a real passion for sharing his photography and Photoshop knowledge. In 2008 he started recording and uploading video tutorials to YouTube. These quickly gained a large following and to date his videos have been viewed over 20 million times.
In 2010 Gavin was the winner of Adobe’s “Next Photoshop Evangelist” competition and since then he has given training demonstrations in Photoshop, Lightroom and Photoshop Elements in the UK, Europe and the US.
In 2012 Gavin joined forces with Adorama as a presenter on Adorama TV, where he inspires and teaches photographers from around the world in the art of photography and post processing.
In this episode, Gavin Hoey shows how to get pleasing background blur, also known as “Bokeh,” when photographing Xmas lights or any other subject with strong spectacular highlights in the background. Photography is only half the story for Gavin, so after the shoot join Gavin in Photoshop CS6 where he’ll edit his RAW image into the final shot using Adobe Camera RAW.
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Photos by Gavin Hoey
