Best Way To Work With Multiple Speedlights | Take and Make Great Photography with Gavin Hoey

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.

Having more than one Speedlight opens up a world of lighting opportunities but it can also be the fastest way to get yourself lost in lighting. Trying to figure out which flashlights what and how much power each Speedlight needs, gets more complicated as the number of flashes increases.

In this video, photographer Gavin Hoey has a simple, reliable, and repeatable answer to this problem… Go slow! Starting with basics such as exposure triangle and eliminating the room lights, Gavin takes you through a three light set up in his small home studio. This is all done to create a cinematic, nighttime portrait complete with smoke effects and Snow (thanks to his free Photoshop Snow Fluffy Action)

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