Easy One Light Headshots | Take and Make Great Photography with Gavin Hoey
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2024
- The secret to getting the perfect headshot is communication. On the day of your headshot session you, as the photographer, need to focus on the subject and not on your camera or lighting. So keeping things simple but flexible is a smart idea.
That’s where photographer Gavin Hoey can help. In this video, he shares three quick and easy headshot lighting set-ups that only use one light. Along the way, Gavin shares some top tips on how to avoid shiny skin, when and where to use a reflector and perhaps most usefully, what should you do with your subject’s hands!
The three set-ups start with a single Flashpoint XPOLR300 flash before Gavin adds a silver reflector into the mix. But if flash isn’t your thing, Gavin has you covered as his third lighting set-up is all about playing to the strengths of LED or continuous light. That means, shallow depth of field photos and making your subject's eyes look bright and super colorful, all thanks to a single Nanlite FS-200.
This short video is packed full of real-world photography tips aimed at making sure your photography doesn’t get in the way of communication with your subject.
Timestamps and Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:08 Planning your headshot photo session
2:09 How light size and position improve your portraits
3:59 Portraits with consistent color and exposure
4:50 Leaning against a wall headshot photo session
5:35 Overhead or beauty light headshot portraits
7:25 How to pose hands in a headshot portrait
8:17 Headshots that show your subject's vocation
8:53 Tips for using continuous LED light for headshots
10:48 LED lit headshot session with shallow DOF
11:28 Conclusions and Subscribe
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Always my _favorite_ presenter! Many thanks Gavin! Cheers
❤Gavin no matter how many times I watch your videos, the pleasure is immense each time and there is always a learning cuve. Thank you for your mentoring.
What a very charming person there 🤓😊. Thank Gavin for having made here shine.
Thank you Gavin for another great video packed with tips!
Some really great advice Gavin especially getting the subject to use their hands. And if your subject has a vocation to bring some of that vocation into some of the head shots, great idea. Thanks for sharing this video. 😊
Fantastic tip about continuous flash and pupil size! Thank you!!
Gavin has been at this for so long and yet every video is amazing and much we can learn. And such a lovely positive man. Thank you Gavin.
PS: whenever Mark Wallace is in town, pls do a photo shootout like the old days
I'm just starting out with headshots. I watch your videos more than I care to admit.
I once had one of your one light setup videos playing as I tried follow along step by step.
Please continue educating people like me with what you do
Thank you in advance.....
Definitely underrated. Gavin is so good at this.
Great video Gavin really enjoyed it. I love using a single light and will be exploring more just using the one.
I just love this channel: as model and cosplayer it helps so much to understand the work of a photograph so much better and so I can be a better model / cosplayer myself. What Ii would love to see here a few times more often would be like cosplay shootings, setting up a set with a few more props or videos about locations (what makes a location great - especially outdoor).
Hi Gavin. As always another fantastic video to educate us all.Love watching your tutorials...cant get enough. Have a lovely festive season and stay blessed my friend.
You are an excellent photographer. I’ve been watching your videos for years👍
What stunning portraits ! Well done both of you ...
Golden nuggets in this video! Thank you!!
I really enjoy your videos, Gavin. Keep up the good work!
Awesome video Gavin! I always learn something new, watching your videos. Keep up the good work 🙂.
You rock Gavin! I always learn something new from your videos! cheers!
What a brilliant video, so informative yet so relaxed . To use one of your phrases awesome.
My favorite Hoey girl Sophie is back!🎉
Superb video sir Gavin :)! It took me back to the basics and it reminded me that simplicity can achieve beautiful images as well.
Great video, nice to try simpler things and still get excellent results.
Excellent video, it is always a pleasure to watch your videos.
Thank you very much Gavin!
Great video Gavin! Thanks for Sharing! 👍
You make both informative and entertaining tutorials. Thank you
some brilliant nuggets of wisdom Gavin thank you for sharing ! great work and always great to see the beautiful Sophie
Absolutely loved this video! Very helpful, informative. Can’t wait to try these techniques. It would be even better if there were a workshop I can join in NY 😄
And you too Sophie! Happy holiday to you and your family and don't need too much. You look beautiful.
YES!!! Smiling Sofie, that just makes her photos so much better in my opinion.
Superb as always. Made to look so easy!
Many thanks, Gavin. Great video.
Good refresher course. Awesome work.
absolutely love this video, as always. Great shots of Sophie, beautiful smile :)! Thanks Gavin!!!...much love from Perú
Like always I like it, Gavin really share his knowledge and do it in a fun ways. Thank Adorama and the team to make it happens..
Shebang! You nailed it Gavin. Thanks.
Glad to see Sophie back...
Love the shots of Sophie 'not being a model'. I find that it is very difficult to get models to produce a normal, natural smile 😊.Far too often they take on a 'far away distant ' look.
Great video Gavin excellent explanation as always
You're a day early Gavin, I thought it was Thursday already! Another brill back to basics tutorial 👍
Master of simple and effective lighting. I love your content on Adoroma. Regards!
You are amazing Gavin.
Great to see Sophie back in a Gav video, its been a while 😊
fab work as always..
Thank you! Enjoyed your professional tutorial and informative presentation.
Nice work really love what you do
Great video
The simplest sets are often the best.
Thanks for showing.
Greetings from Germany, from the city where your first SLR camera was built.
Gavin - as always a very informative and enteraining video.
excellent tutorial. thank you
Outstanding Video
Another terrific video Gavin, love the images, especially from the third set up. Great stuff as always 🙂
Thanks Paul 👍
Great video! Thank you!
She’s an amazing talented and beautiful subject. Gavin it’s so fun to watch you work and you’re a wonderful educator. Beautiful images and just one light.
Thank you for the kind words 😊
Thank you Gavin, you and Sofia, she is not only beautiful, but also nice. Good job, greetings from the Czech Republic
Always something to learn. Also discovered now that Sofie has a fantastically beautiful smile which she should show off more often. Mostly, models are way too serious. 😊😊
You and your family happy holidays. Be safe
Great tutorial. Am just starting a studio in Uyo . Aks , Nigeria . Learnt a lot here. Thanks for the content
No matter how long I’ve done this or how many times I watch your awesome instructional videos, I always learn something valuable, Gavin. Thank you and Season’s Greetings.
Thanks for the comment and I'm glad to have helped 👍
Yea like the continuous light for the small pupal effect. What a great tip.
Love the content Gavin! I recently started doing headshots for friends and family using a single continuous light and your videos have been a huge help!!! Love from Texas
Glad we've been of help. Have fun with the headshots :)
Thank you for another awesome video!!!
Thanks Patty 👍
I always enjoy your videos but especially this one. I really liked the three variations and the demonstrations during the video. Thank you. Happy Thanksgiving.
Thanks for the kind words, glad you enjoyed it 👍
Always fun to see Hoey working his tiny studio to great effect. Yes (text introduction), communication is #1. In another industry this was my mantra: your work is 80% communication (with client and their stakeholders) and in this case, the other 20% was internal communication. Run a more than 1 person studio and it's the same.
"One light" - I would argue that the reflector is a light too as it is actively positioned and angled, rather than passively used like a wall or floor.
The communication being so important is why "recognition AI AF" has become very important to me. It allows me to not look through the camera and maintain contact with the sitter. Way back, with the Hasselblad or large format, this was a completely different more of operation. There's still no need to spray and pray because of the learning effects of way back, but the new technology can help a lot.
I feel like a kid watching tv every time i yell the models name, in this case «SOPHIEEE» along with Gavin 😂
Blipiiii
I do that too. Frightening.
Thanks Gavin!
Amazing model :)
Another great video, i try the legs on a milk crate and it comes in handy.
Great video, thank you
Brilliant 👍
I enjoyed the video. Doing self portrait headshots would be great. Thanks.
Our own head-shot, that is a great idea! Can you make a video on that subject?
Very helpful!!
Outstanding! Gavin. Loved this one so much. Would love to see an outside shoot with the same lighting set up utilizing ugly backgrounds to get an even better shot / image. Thanks for the lesson
Here you go :) th-cam.com/users/liveLvuONHP7gKU?si=QQrbo6UFCCtY-jGu
love it, and would love a self portrait course :)
great headshot video good imagery Well done and thanks Gavin.
Thanks John 👍
Thanks Gavin for this informative video.
You mentioned a future video about taking self head shots.
A good question for this subject:
I got many vintage, and also some new, manual lenses.
I'd really like to use them when I do self portrait, but I can't find a way to focus properly.
Is there a trick to make this easier ?
Maybe there is simply no way...
Thanks Gavin
Gavin an og 💯
very informative
Great video - although Sophie would look amazing in a carrier bag and taken with a disposable party camera!
aaaaaaannnnnd ANOTHER great video. you and Sophie are a great team, and youre right, having someone who has half a clue to start when it comes to posing/modeling is 90% of the results.
if youre serious about doing a 'self-headshot' tutorial PLEASE DO! i have shot some of myself but even with pre-focus, or standing directly in front of the lens and starting the shot with focus etc, and shooting at 5.6 i still often get out of focus shots. (not that you can teach the camera to focus properly!)
i havent subscribed because i dont want to get suggestions of others from adoramaTV. i dont watch those creators...
Omg. I just noticed how to make pupil smaller 10:07. Thank you Gavin for such a useful information. The tutorial was great as always
It's a small thing (pun intended) but pupil size passes an almost subconscious message and knowing when to make them large or small is an often overlooked skill.
Thank you@@GavinHoey
I have done headshots now for 13 years you are great and you know more then most !! Good Job, My first camera was OM 1 :) film
Thanks. I did corporate head shots for years (although not as many as yourself) keep it simple, make them smile, keep it short was usually my game plan 😉
@@GavinHoey Happy Thanks giving and thank you for the reply really appreciated.
Great video Gavin
Thanks Kirsty 👍
@@GavinHoey your very welcome
Just a small request. Would you be willing to do some videos with models of different age, size, skin tones? I'm just getting into portrait photography and I will most likely not be working with professional models with great skin and such.
It would be really helpful to see the best strategies to shoot people with wrinkles, rounder faces and bodies, facial hair etc. Love your videos and instruction style Gavin.
SHABANG!
Thanks Gavin! If the key light should equal the camera aperture number, and if both are set to f4 or lower, would the light output be very low, depth of field shallow, and difficult to then also use a fill light as practically no light output with it?
Thanks Gavin.
Hi Gavin, I follow your videos as they are very weĺ constructed and helpful. I wondered what tips you might have for headshots/portraits for an older (70) female reluctant model.
Hi Robin. I did a whole live session on reluctant model portraits which might help th-cam.com/users/liveXcvpj8hi0R4?si=VfCOV5RKsn9xGnjl my reluctant model was at the opposite age range but I personally wouldn't change my approach because of someone's age.
Great stuff!!! Which light meter are you using? I'd like to find a light meter that works natively with Godox that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
👍👍👍📸👍🎥👍👍👍. Beautiful
Great video! In general, how close to the background should you place your subject to avoid shadows? I struggle with this a bit. Also, a self-portrait video would be awesome!
Hi Helga. To avoid shadows it's not about the distance from the background but the angle of the light. Elevated and acute side angles of light can remove shadows (on head shots) on backgrounds at surprisingly close distances. On camera flash will throw a shadow onto the background even in a large studio!
Thanks so much,@@GavinHoey! I enjoy your videos!
Hi Sophie, what's your go-to foundation that looks good for portraits?
The hardest part was for Sophie to pretend not to be a model ! One of things I do is catch the unguarded moments when someone is laughing or making silly faces. It may not be used but they always remember it!
Thanks A LOT Gavin, I learned so much from all your videos. Keep doing this great job. Greetings from Perú 🇵🇪
Merci Alex 👍
Many thanks Gavin. Really enjoy your videos. Re. Compression, what was your focal length? Thanks.
Focal length has no impact on compression, it's one of those huge half truths that photographers repeat without checking (something I was guilty of for far to long).
Lenses ONLY crop, it's DISTANCE that compresses... and I was probably 10 feet back.
Grate video Gavin Hoey.
Question.....how do you clean your diffusion material on your softbox, do you put them in the washer, or do you hand wash them?
Oh and is normal wash detergent suitable? 🤔
Hi Marcus. The "fabric" is usually pretty tough, so I usually try a scrub with a damp cloth followed with water and soap and if all else fails a cold hand wash.
You are definitely one that I keep coming back to because you make everything look so damn simple.... Question though. The white balance and the color card. I'd like to see more on how that works. I could google it or search youtube but I think I'd rather have the Hoey version of it. And... why are those color cards so damn expensive....? Look forward to a response...
Thanks for the kind words. Checkout this video for a detailed look at how and when I use the full Colorchecker Passport swatches th-cam.com/video/D_NVCS7sUPY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=WIRcPG7bjYg6ZI7p As for why they're are the price they are, is any thing in photography ever cheap 😏
Thanks
Can u do a vid on how to setup a standard adorama c stand
Gavin have you ever talked about your tethering set up? Monitor you use and program?
Hi, would I be able to use a single Godox V1 to achieve similar results?
When shooting against a white backdrop, how would you suggest to maintain the white? When I was practicing, my white backdrop was turning greyish blue. I had my WB set relatively correct. I've seen others using a small flash set behind the subject and pointed toward the backdrop. Do you think this would be the solution?
Hi Gavin! Can you show us how you prepare portrait photos for sending to clients? What resolution do you use? In which formats do you save them? What color space do you work in? And how do you specifically send files to clients? On a flash drive? Via email? Or through cloud services? If possible, share details about this, as there is limited information available on the internet. Thank you!
Everything is virtual nowadays in my world. Resolutions are either what the client asked for or as high as I can supply.