Four Looks, One Gray Background

Four Looks, One Gray Background

YouTube Video

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.

If you work in a small studio and have only one color background, which should you choose? Photographer Gavin Hoey is here to convince you that gray is the top color background and he proves it be demoing four simple lighting tricks that create very different background effects.

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Photos by Gavin Hoey

Gavin Hoey
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