Face Covered Portraits | 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.

Face coverings can have a wide range of uses but when it comes to photography, hiding part of your subject’s face creates a sense of mystery and drama. Capturing that emotion in your photography requires more than just a mask, it needs lighting, styling, and editing, something photographer Gavin Hoey explains in this “how-to” video tutorial.

As is often the case it all starts with great lighting, so Gavin shows the lighting set-up that works for him and also the lighting that didn’t quite give him the drama he was looking for. Eyes are next on his list as Gavin explains why they matter more than ever for this style of the shoot and how make-up can make a difference. Finally, Gavin adds some smoke into his small home studio and color corrects a final image in Photoshop to complete the shot.

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