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 great location portrait needs many things to work together such as a talented model, good lighting, the right styling… and so on. Added to that list for photographer Gavin Hoey is often atmospheric smoke. But when you look a little closer you’ll soon discover that not all fog fluids are equal.
In this video, Gavin passes on his top tips for working with a fog machine on location. After he covers the basics such as background and lighting, Gavin takes you on a journey by repeating the same shoot with three very different types of smoke effect fluid.
Starting with a light haze, Gavin moves on to heavy, textured smoke and finally settles on the incredibly versatile fast dissipating fog fluid. If you’re into your cinematic atmospheric effects, this video will cut through the haze!
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- How to Control the Lighting in Portrait Photography
- Flash Photography Tips: How to Get Better Lighting with Camera Flashes
- How To Shoot Golden Hour Portraits with the FlashPoint XPLOR 600
- Lens in Focus: Audrey Woulard’s Favorite Nikon Portrait Lens
PRODUCTS USED:
- Glow EZ Lock 12”x56” Stripbox
- Flashpoint Streaklight Grid/Gel Set
- Flashpoint XPLOR 300 Pro
- Olympus E-M1 Mark iii
- Olympus 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro
- CHAUVET Hurricane 1200 Fog Machine
- Flashpoint eVOLV 200
- CHAUVET HDF High-Density Fog Fluid
- CHAUVET Quick Dissipating Fog Fluid
- Rosco Light Fog Fluid
- Flashpoint R2 Pro Transmitter
