Quick vs Quality, Why Make-up Matters: 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.

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A great portrait needs more then good light and a great model. Make-up is often the overlooked missing component that can instantly elevate the quality of your portraits and the close you get to your model, the more important it becomes.

In this video, photographer Gavin Hoey teams up with Sophie Daley http://www.sophiedaly.com to create two looks. The first is what you might expect when a model does there own make-up or time is tight. For the second look a lot more time was available allowing for more detailed make-up and color matching of the face, neck and hands.

Between shoots Gavin also has some top tips for working with a make-up artist.