Elevate Your Portraits With An Amazing Light Beam! | Take and Make Great Photography with Gavin Hoey

[@BiggieZee]

Gavin is honestly one of the most entertaining and friendliest photographers and instructors out there! Always learn so much from him! Go Gav!!

[@GavinHoey]

Thank you Biggie Zee 😁

[@honda86tb]

My favorite photographer on the planet for many years now. Ty for the video.

[@alanroderick7153]

Smoke !!! Yeah !!! A return to the Real Gavin Hoey

[@GavinHoey]

Yep, smoke is back in the building 😁

[@pathogan4854]

excellent demonstration thank you Gavin !!

[@terryleephotographer]

Yes! Return of the smoke machine! 😬 I was beginning to think Sam had made you toss them all out. 🤣🤣🤣

[@canucklehead28]

Love the video Gavin, as usual. Haha. It looks like you're getting your final shots in before the building burns down.

[@juliomorales9225]

Hello my name is Julio morales from Texas USA Gavin you are Amazing I have small garage studio and try used most of your techniques and I can’t believe how good my photos are thank you ……

[@TerryD_100]

Another great video Gav, nice to see you and Sam last week

[@GavinHoey]

Thanks Terry, was nice to randomly bump into you too 👍

[@reynaldomercado]

Great "advance" "sophisticated" "complex " etc educational video. I always find your videos very informative and never boring. Thanks again.❤

[@Njwanta]

Hooooooray smoke machine!!! Defiantly advanced photography right there ;) Great video!

[@GavinHoey]

Brilliant! But in my experience adding smoke isn't the hard part, quickly getting rid of it after the session is the advanced technique 😉

[@AnalogueDiaries]

Hands down one of the best and most entertaining educators! I think I have exact same smoke machine and evolvs 😅

[@charleyl264]

Thanks again Gavin. That's a very interesting lens you have, and something new for my want list (You're keeping me poor, but happy). I recently used a 10 deg. 7" grid on one of my studio 400 w/s flashes and 7" reflector. At about 5' distance, light to roses, I had a surprisingly narrow beam of light that I used to illuminate 3 roses in a tall slender vase with the light beam about 10" diameter at the roses. I had first tried using a snoot, but it didn't give the small enough beam of light that I was looking for, so I tried the grid. I use the larger versions of these grids often, but I had never used the 10 deg. grid before. It will likely see more use now. There was some light spill that made the vase and table top visible, but it could be stopped out by just reducing the light 1 stop down. I decided to leave the table surface and vase very dark but visible in the shot, so the image had orientation to it, but it highlighted the roses. Charley

[@lizard0625]

Love your tutorials! Your creativity and professionalism are amazing! Great job! Regards from Hungary!

[@GavinHoey]

Thanks for the kind words 👍

[@SlamBradley]

Watching now!

[@cjk1943]

❤ I love the video I always learn something new

[@MundtStefan]

I recommend the use of a haze machine

[@DylanRichardson841]

Another great video as always.

[@tomzphone]

I don't watch Adorama videos, but when I do it's only Gavin Hoey!!!

[@GavinHoey]

I'm very honoured but do tune in and check out some of our other content from time to time 😊

[@tomzphone]

lol, I do watch some Adorama videos. However, yours area always the best content, the best creative ideas, the best presentation and easy to understand and follow. Thanks for all you do. @@GavinHoey

[@kennethnielsen3864]

Super session. Thanks for sharing.

[@johnclay7644]

good video Gavin, creative lighting a quite fun thing to do, advanced tutorial for me is you take something complex (like cinematography) and make it sounds very simple (theory wise) good topic and interesting result. Well done.

[@GavinHoey]

Thanks John 👍

[@SusanneGeert]

I would absolutely love to see Gavin make a sessions about how to do a lifestyle branding portrait session (= that is for a business owner but not typical corporate headshots, rather more "styled" (or natural) scenes that give references to that business - or outdoors) Best from Susanne

[@rayman5704]

As always, an amazing video that I want to repeat myself! 😍👍

[@steezbymo]

Uhm! Gavin, did you invert photography? Cos wow👏🏿

[@sulgor]

what´s the computer you are tethering to? great video thanks for sharing

[@GavinHoey]

That's my Lenovo Miix 2 in 1 tablet / Laptop. It's a a fair few years old now so I guess the modern equivalent would be a Microsoft Surface.

[@john_xélouras]

Hello, is the AK-R21 compatible with the Godox V1? Thank you.

[@mirandavandenberk786]

Great again, thank you again

[@MrChefomar]

How do you get the camera to take a dark picture on a white wall?? Im fascinated by that! And the room is bright but the picture still comes out day🤔

[@PrimalVarietyYTC]

I noticed you always take a picture with no flash fire to show us the black. How do you do that. Just wondering

[@MrEnglishgolfer]

Great video as always! Now all I need to do is convince my wife that we need to put a hole in my "studio" room's ceiling (and up into our bedroom above!) to have the flash so high up. Wish me luck!

[@GavinHoey]

You know I'll back you up but before I send you over my spare hammer you might want to consider setting this up outside. Either after dark or at lease on a very overcast (and not to breezy) day 😉

[@MrEnglishgolfer]

That's actually a smart idea! Petra - who says "hello" to you and Sam - also likes this idea of not having a gapping hole in our bedroom floor!@@GavinHoey

[@GavinHoey]

​@@MrEnglishgolferHello passed on and returned Steve 👋

[@macbaar6073]

A Flamenco dance pose by her would be very nice….

[@timip3658]

I need a light meter , which would you recommend for a home studio and a couple of outdoor shoots ? Thank Gavin

[@GavinHoey]

The Sekonic L-308X has served me well for over a decade. Highly recommended www.adorama.com/sksk401305.html

[@reddreads]

What’s the difference between the projector attachment and using a snoot? Sharper light?

[@GavinHoey]

Not just sharper but also focusable, so a projector can be soft or hard edged light. It can slaso accept GoBo's and in this case slides to project pictures and patterns... But that's for another video 😉

[@eamonnthatcher]

Love all your work,I've just started up with my flash photography,I have one small problem hopefully you can help or anyone. I use Olympus e-mii I've tethered to my laptop with capture one the camera live on screen view,but when I take photo you see shutter got off but no picture just live view can anyone help,I've looked in setttings but can't find how to fix driving me mad please help

[@fotogfitzfoto412]

Should install an extractor fan. That's what I did.

[@macbaar6073]

A good vacoom cleaner or Hoower would do I think…

[@Lucamitm]

What are you using on that tablet to shoot teetered ? Thanks

[@GavinHoey]

I'm using OM Workspace and OM Capture to run my tethering... BTW that tablet runs Windows 10 😁

[@Lucamitm]

which table is that ? thanks !@@GavinHoey

[@harmonicaMD]

Is there a way to do similar effects in video/cinematography?

[@themarksmanABP]

Just use a constant light through a small hole in a dark room. Add a smoke machine and boom

[@GavinHoey]

Yes you can. You'll need a projection attachment that's designed for LED lights such as the Nanlite unit I used here kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaOyq3SGm5aGgZYsi=q1CZc9A73zkk54gJ&t=331 but other then that the techniques are the same.

[@Impostertot]

Interesting. Is there a way to get the AK-R21 to project a narrow beam of light? I am looking for something to simulate a laser type of lighting. Thanks!

[@BrianHalePhoto]

i coincidentally just bought one of these on a whim a few days ago and from what I've read i'd say no, you can't. Gavin is using it more like a snoot than a slide projector which is what it is. But it's not a gobo. It sounds like even if you made a slide that is a dark circle with a tiny hole, the edges would not be sharp like an actual gobo.

[@GavinHoey]

You can swap the 50mm lens for other lenses for a wide or narrow beam but it's no laser. You can get closer by using a slide (the AK-R21 is designed to project pictures) like I did in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXSUhWBoqquFkLssi=V9Qi2oxXUk26iJ5D&t=440 but for a real laser look you really need a laser, even a cheap one like I did here kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3fboomqac9pnc0

[@ginomazzaferro8122]

Gavin...Is it time for a new outfit for you? I've been seeing that red plaid shirt for a while now! LOL

[@marcusprime357]

Smoking!!! See what I did there? 😏 Hey Gavin Hoey, can make a video where lens flare is a creative part of the images? Thanks for your work!

[@GavinHoey]

I can do better then that.... kzbin.infoCdsI2YrkY6s A whole live stream on shooting into the light. Maybe you missed it as it got lost in the mists of time (see what I did there? 😉)

[@kirstyhepworth7343]

To be honest I think it is something that you don't do every time and great video. 1:20

[@GavinHoey]

Yep sounds about right to me and thank you 😊

[@kirstyhepworth7343]

@GavinHoey your welcome Gavin as always and also loved the smoke too

[@Sportserjeff]

I can see using this in a cemetery 😊

[@GavinHoey]

Perhaps you should get permission from the locals first 👻

[@Sportserjeff]

@@GavinHoey I live in Charleston SC the graveyards are tourist attractions! They give tours so no problem as long as it's during daylight hours. And I've made friends with the residents.

[@DobbsyLondon]

I missed one or two of your vids and you've gone all silver fox bro.

[@axxwound1205]

I think this is the first video I have seen where you work with a model that doesn't have an "ie" sound at the end of their name(Sophie, Zoey, Chloe, etc.). Lol.

[@gewglesux]

it's a double banger@ karl taylor dropped a video today to on a similar thanks Gavin

[@madtical777]

i have a challenge, i will take the final images and run it through midjouney / describe and see if i can create the same image with AI

[@pedroagonzalezfoto]

Great video, as always! But there is a question that has been spinning around in my head for a long time: why the heck do the models have to adopt that pile of stupid, forced and antinatural poses? I can't understand it 🙂

[@macbaar6073]

The other poses are protected by copy rights…🤪😂🤣😂🤣

[@user95081]

godox

[@davidfasano2652]

I think you are a victim of your teaching skills. You are able to simplify complex ideas and some people may wrongly believe you are only presenting topics for beginners.