Shooting Against a Shiny Background

Shooting Against a Shiny Background

YouTube Video

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.

Photographing reflective surfaces is always a challenge but when that surface is your entire background it can produce some incredible images. The trick, according to Gavin Hoey, is to manage the reflections from your lights and accept that they’re always be there.

Follow along as Gavin walks through is reflective corner lighting, adds a splash of color with gels and final fine tunes the image in Photoshop.
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Photos by Gavin Hoey
https://www.instagram.com/thegavinhoey

Gavin Hoey
Adorama TV

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