Wet Portraits in the Studio: Take and Make Great Photography with Gavin Hoey

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Adding a splash of water to your portraits is a fantastic way to create energy and originality to your portraits but in order to freeze water you’ll need a little bit of technical knowhow. That’s where photographer Gavin Hoey can help. Gavin will walk you through his lighting tips and tricks to get pin sharp splash portraits in his small home studio.

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Photos by Gavin Hoey

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48 Comments
  1. rhaburnchannel says

    Love this video!

  2. Jess Lin says

    More “film noir” photography please…. a sniper for instance?!? Many thanks I’m learning from you..

  3. Dasein Dani says

    Gavin made me click the notification bell. Awesome video as always.

  4. Magic Miller says

    Gavin you are amazing! 👏

  5. Norwegian.Mountain.Hiker says

    i just love ur videos ! im gonna test this whit my models and if u want to see the result , follow me on instagram ; gundersen.foto

    best regards Espen Gundersen

    norwegian photographer

  6. Kerstin Pfeiffer says

    Hey Gavin, you´re such a great teacher… you explane everything that´s really difficult in such a simple way. So you make me and my husband believin we can take fotos like you can. At least you give us the courage to try out 😉 …. not many tutorials are that funny and entertaining. Thank you for that!

  7. Barky Von Schnauzer says

    I pull up my chair with a nice cuppa tea & the Gavster. I'm happy. Keep im coming.

  8. crazykeith2 says

    Awesome

  9. TA Lindsay says

    loveeeeed this video! We just did "wet" themed photography in class…unfortunately, I watched your video afterward. I will do one for my portfolio! Thanks so much for your excellent videos!

  10. J B says

    wow

  11. Omar David says

    can you recomend an inexpencive but efective light meter

  12. Emmanuel Miranda says

    What kind of camera is he using?

  13. Sanjay Khude says

    👌👌👌👌👌

  14. Craig Tedeton says

    He makes everything seem so effortless.

  15. Rey Proenza says

    Gavin I simply love your channel, thanks for your great work. Greetings from Montreal.

  16. Igor K says

    OMG, he is so really pretty boy. I'm almost fell in love with him 😉 Oh, and yes thanks for your video, it was very useful.

  17. William Shannahan says

    cool stuff.

  18. Lukas Redfield says

    ther are brushes forthis in photoshop lol not wet

  19. Mazhar Dipu says

    absolute brilliant! I wanna try this with my daughter very soon.

  20. Chadi Wehbe says

    Always remember where your towel is! 😀

  21. Deivid Machado Gomes says

    Thank you! Great video.

  22. Marcelo Roberto Tomaz says

    Visto!

  23. Luis Lanz says

    I love your videos

  24. obinna uzoukwu says

    Hello Gavin. please is the flash name 'streetlight 360?' hope i heard correctly

  25. Javed Khan says

    What kind of lighting system and softbox you used? Is it HSS or normal flash system.

  26. Nasir Ahmad says

    Love this…Awesome

  27. SwissPL says

    Thank you !

  28. Wyeco Videos says

    Love your style Gavin…always make me say WOW,

  29. J Anderson says

    Excellent! Very nice!

  30. buj balok says

    i like it.s

  31. patrick bangura says

    You're one of are kind, you're good you're superb, you're great, you're a great teacher, you're a professional photographer, may the almighty god keep on giving you more more idea's ameen, so you can give us, more idea's thanks one more again, god bless you but you need to worship god almighty.

  32. ayoub M NAOUI says

    Awesome job. thank for sharing all these techniques with us.

  33. Veronica Smith says

    loved this, awesome

  34. @Martha's Channel says

    Thank you very much!!!! Love learning with you!!!

  35. Nadine Birge says

    I ABSALUTLY LOVE THE ONE IN THE HAT

  36. Ray Waller II says

    great job. i like the tips

  37. Molon Labe! says

    I like Gavin but every time I hear him I think about hobbits…just saying =)

  38. Ashish Negi says

    nice idea… thanks for the video…

  39. andreas gustaaf meset says

    Simple but briliant..

  40. an alien undercover says

    i need help i have ad600b flash which is more powerful than 360 but i can't shoot 11 frames per second with it…. what am i doing wrong?

  41. Sean O'Sullivan says

    Couldn't help but smile at the hint of Douglas Adams reference.

  42. Steven Powell says

    new to this channel and this is stunning!!!! Thank you 🙂

  43. Preshak Jaswant says

    Sir, you are an amazing photographer.

  44. Bike Parlour says

    hlw gavin hoey… I am ur bigest fan….

  45. cecilia nkesi says

    Really Gavin it's a thumb up a big one think you for inviting me 🖒

  46. Nasarullah says

    It was fun to watch.

  47. king ju6724 says

    Great vid

  48. billsbasementworkshop says

    Nice video. If you had put your model in a green t-shirt it would have looked as if he was a soldier in the rain.

    Thanks for the session.

    bill.

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