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.
Finding interesting backgrounds is always a challenge, doubly so when you shoot in a small home studio. So here’s a simple background idea from Gavin Hoey that takes up very little room but creates eye catching portraits.
All you need is one or two softboxes with egg crate grids. Fill your frame with the grids and shoot away. In the video Gavin covers the best position to shoot from, how the angle of the softboxes affects the shots and how to add the blue tint in camera.
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Photos by Gavin Hoey
https://www.instagram.com/thegavinhoey
Model: Meg Biffin
Instagram @meg_biffin
