Low cost, high key portraits | 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.

When it comes to getting creative with flash, the price of the light isn’t always a reflection of what it can achieve. In this video photographer, Gavin Hoey takes on a low-cost lighting challenge by shooting high-key portraits in a small home studio.

Using just a white wall, a cheap net curtain, and a single Speedlight, Gavin shows you the best position for one flash, high key lighting and then applies that in two different ways. For the first style, Gavin simply covers the model with the net curtain. Next Gavin creates a tunnel of netting and photographs down the center.

After the shoot, Gavin takes you into Photoshop Camera RAW / Lightroom and passes on a simple tip to remove saturation from your model’s skin.

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