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.
One of the many uses of flash is its amazing power to stop action and freeze movement. In this episode of Take and Make Great Photography, Gavin Hoey explains how flash duration makes that possible and why it’s different from shutter speed.
Gavin then uses the freezing power of flash to shoot some amazing photos of water splashes and gives some simple tips on how to process them quickly in Photoshop.
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Photos by Gavin Hoey