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.
Taking great portraits in a home studio has its challenges, but here Gavin shows you how it’s not as challenging as you think.
Honeycomb grids are designed to channel the light from your flash into a small area and in a small studio they are an essential tool for directing light just where you want it. In this video, Gavin Hoey sets up a dramatic shoot using just two lights with grids as well as showing you what happens when you shoot without grids.
After the shoot follow Gavin into Photoshop, where he runs through the simple Adobe Camera RAW processing step he uses to achieve a distinctive look.
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Photos by Gavin Hoey
