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.
Gavin Hoey takes two self-portraits using identical lighting for one shot done all in camera, and another with a background added in Photoshop.
After shooting a low-key self-portrait portrait on a black background, Gavin switches to using a white background for easier Photoshop editing that gives a completely different look despite identical lighting. In this video he demonstrates just how easy it is to change the grey background for something a little more dramatic, get a quick tutorial about Photoshop’s very useful Refine Edge feature, and check out his clever way to focus on a subject, when you’re shooting a studio self-portrait.
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Photos by Gavin Hoey
