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.
In the studio, white backgrounds will usually photograph as gray unless you know how to light them. In this video, Gavin Hoey runs through why a white background comes out gray and how the problem can be solved with a second light. He then applies the theory to a fashion shoot.
The size of a white background can be limiting in a small home studio, but Gavin has a brilliantly simple solution for increasing the apparent size of your white background in Photoshop.
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Photos by Gavin Hoey
