Paper Heart Pattern Photography | 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.

From social media posts to Valentine cards, heart-shaped photos are always popular. In this easy to follow photography project, Gavin Hoey will show you how to create colorful patterned photos using homemade paper hearts.

Gavin starts at the very beginning with how to make paper hearts using printer paper. After that, he moves on to lighting.

In the first set up, Gavin uses a softbox at different heights to control the contrast on the hearts but still give gentle graduated shadows. In the second lighting set up, Gavin lights the paper hearts from below and has simple, in-camera settings tweak to add some amazing color. Lastly, it’s into Photoshop for a quick bit of cloning and healing.

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