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.
Of all the backgrounds you could choose for your studio, a simple grey is possibly the most versatile. Without light it will become black but as Gavin Hoey demonstrates in this video, lighting a grey background with colored gels opens up a world of creative possibilities.
Gavin shows you just how simple it can be to alter the background color and saturation and then takes the basic principles and applies them to a fashion shoot. Finally he jumps into Photoshop to pass on some quick tips on getting matching tones in the portrait.
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Photos by Gavin Hoey
