Freezing and Blurring Movement with Flash | 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.

Capturing motion can be done in many ways and in this video photographer Gavin Hoey will share his secrets for two very different looks, each using flash.

Gavin starts off with the classic use of flash to freeze movement. He takes you step by step through the process from controlling the light to freezing the action. After that, he steps things up a gear and moves on the showing movement with blur. As you watch along, Gavin will cover everything you need from using a long exposure with ambient light, mixing in flash, and finally the advantage of rear or 2nd curtain sync flash.

Even with the limited space of his small home studio, you’ll be surprised at just what’s possible when you mix flash, LED lights, and motion together.

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