Improve your portraits INSTANTLY with these 5 tips | 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.

A good portrait isn’t something that just happens, it takes time, planning, and practice to get it exactly how you imagined it. However, there are a few tricks the pros use that can instantly improve your chances of getting the perfect portrait faster and more often.

In this video, photographer Gavin Hoey shares 5 ways to instantly improve your portraits. From matching your model’s eye height with your own to controlling light with a reflector or off-camera flash. Any one of these five top tips will significantly change the way you take location portraits but it’s when you start combining them together that the magic really happens.

So next time you’re looking down at your model and they’re trying their very best to make their standard poses look original, try one of Gavin’s quick tricks and see what a difference it can make to your photography.

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